MOTU HAKA, THE FIGHT OF THE MARQUISES ISLANDS
Summary: For more than 40 years, in the Marquesas Islands, members of the Motu Haka Association have stood up to gather, preserve, and promote the culture of the Marquesas Islands...
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Strong Female Lead
Australia. One in three women report experiencing discrimination or harassment at work. In 2010, Julia Gillard became the first female prime minister of Australia...
Alick and Albert
Alick Tipoti is from Badu, the island of Torres Strait. He is a renowned artist. Albert II is the Prince of Monaco where they met...
Rava’ai – 15 fishing techniques in Pf
The Polynesians are experts in the sea and fishing. Their relationship with the ocean has enabled them to develop and perfect...
OCEANS APART – GREED, BETRAYAL AND PACIFIC RUGBY
In Samoa, as in New Zealand, Tonga and Fiji, rugby is the national sport. Dan Léo, a Samoan rugby player, sacrificed his life for the...
Tuha’a Pae, of flesh and steel
A film about a Polynesian boat where Polynesian life is told and lived. The Tuha’a Pae V with powerful engines. Made of steel, well...
Hawaiian Soul
Molokai. Between the 1950s and today, the land has suffered greatly from the presence of military training. But the Hawaiians...
Sana, the crystal that consumes
More than cannabis, methamphetamine, nicknamed ice or sana, is now the most consumed drug in French Polynesia. Mal...
The Bowraville Murders
Australia. Gumbayngi Country. 1990. Following the mysterious disappearance of 3 young Aboriginal people, a young woman, a child and...
MRS. VALERIE ADAMS: MORE THAN GOLD
Summary: A portrait of a woman: Valérie Adams, 4-time Olympic champion in the weight throw. This athlete from Tongi in...
NO MAORI ALLOWED
Summary: When painful memories have been hidden and they are linked to segregation, whether they are acts of racism, with the involvement of...
The Island in Me
The story of 2 women, Amélia Borofsky, 40 years old, and Johnny Frisbie, 86 years old. Both of them lived in their childhood on the island of Pu...
FIND WHERE I BELONG
Summary: Life on the streets of two SDFs John, the older one, seems to love this life and feel at home in it. Elvis, the Marquisian, dreams...
The Rogers
The daily life of those who form the first group of trans men in the Pacific. The Rogers of Samoa repeat the...
WAAN YAAT – ON A LAND IN THE REPUBLIC
Summary: This film recounts one of the bloody episodes of the Events. On December 5, 1984, in the Waan Yaat valley of Hienghene, the independent...
WILLIAM ALBERT ROBINSON, THE LAST JOURNEY
Summary: William Albert Robinson became famous in 1931 after a world tour of more than 3 years on a sailboat barely 10 meters long....
THE HEALER STONES OF KAPAEMAHU
Summary: Near the famous Wakiki Beach in Honolulu, 4 stone giants have stood for a long time: they are memories loaded with mana...
From sea to girl: Polynesian surfing for women
The ocean at the heart of Polynesian culture, its spiritual beliefs, and its contemporary life. Sinking into the waves is a p...
Kapaemahu
Legend or reality? Long ago, 4 male and female dual beings came to Waikīkī from Tahiti, carrying the gifts of the sacred...
HAKA haha
The haka is a cultural heritage of the Māori. Its terrible appropriation abroad is beginning to transform this proud expression...
Small Island Big Song -An Oceanic Songline
This fantastic film was shot over 3 years across the Pacific and part of the Indian Ocean. It offers us a glimpse of 16 different islands...
Ua Huka, the island of horses
Marquises. Vohi, originally from Ua Huka, where 1500 horses still live in freedom, is a trainer in Hiva Oa, where cars are rare...
When Nobody Was Looking
In the 1970s of the 20th century, Dr Olivier Sutherland accused the police and the justice system of racism by reporting cases of children...
CLEAN
Summary: Melbourne, Australia, Sandra Pankurst runs a business specializing in cleaning special places: very cluttered...
Cane Fire
In Hawaii, this documentary examines and critiques the history of Kaua’i. Portraying a dream of tropical paradise too often offered by the...
Patutiki, the art of tattooing in the Marquesas Islands
55 min – French Polynesia – 2019 Version: French and Marquesan subtitled in English Directed by: Her...
RAPA, LIVING HERE, LIVING DOWN THERE
Summary: French Polynesia. Rapa is an isolated, mysterious and enchanting island. A very strong bond connects those who were born there to this...
ABLAZE
Summary: Australia. Tiriki Onus thought he knew everything about his grandfather, Bill, a cultural leader, entrepreneur, impresario, and actor...
Kamaʻāina: Child of the Land
Hawaii. Mahina, 16 years old, a young queer who became an homeless person, initially refuses to be helped by an association. Then she finds an autonomous camp...
Whetū Mārama – Bright Star
This film shows us what the importance was for the Māori of the rediscovery of the great voyages of the double-hulled pirogues across the...
MILKED
Summary: A young activist delves into the dairy lands where he faces the giants of the most powerful industry in New...
A BOY CALLED PIANO – THE STORY OF FA’AMOANA JOHN LUAFUTU
Summary: Fa’amoana John Luafutu was born into a Samoan family that emigrated around 1960. An innocent baby. Holding memories of childhood...
UNDERSTAND US! FAMILY VIOLENCE IN POLYNESIA
Summary: Committed body and soul in the fight against domestic violence, four professionals from the justice and police sectors have...
My Name Is Gulpilil
Let yourself be carried away by this original and moving film. Embark on the life and films of a legendary Australian actor, an Aboriginal...
Red House
Hawaii. A young man haunted by his childhood returns to his family after his release from prison. Will he be able to overcome his traumatic experiences...
New Caledonia, the wild island
In New Caledonia, an island paradise, there exists a secret kingdom where nature reigns supreme. Between the Coral Sea and the sky, passing through...
The MAU Movement of Samoa
Why and how the Pacific Mau movement became a revolutionary movement demanding independence for New Zealand...
KAUGERE: A PLACE WHERE NO ONE ENTERS
Summary: Kaugere neighborhood in Port Moresby, PNG. Albert Muri is a rugby coach and is familiar with crime, hooliganism, and...
ON THE TRACES OF THE GI IN BORA BORA
December 7, 1941, the American fleet was destroyed in Pearl Harbor by the Japanese air force. The USA enters the war. They decide...
Urchin
A family from exile. An Australian city. A mother and her two sons, Livi and Lika. Livi chooses to go out for a night on her own. Mu...
River of Small Gods
Hawaii. When you no longer have either work or an apartment, you need a solution. In O’ahu, it is possible, even for a young woman from the...
52 meters later
New Caledonia. A simple and natural life. A Kanak village, a family... Pué Kwé, 12 years old, has found a trap for wild pigs...
Murder in Paradise
Niue. What caused the murder of its administrator by 3 indigenous people determined to get justice, while she was...
Hawaiian Spiritual Guardians – ‘Aumākua
In Hawaii, each family would have their ‘Aumākua or guardian protector. Some don’t admit it, others say it, others still...
PASSENGER OF LEGENDS
Summary: French Polynesia. Matorai, a young Polynesian teenager in search of his identity... He practices an ancestral art called ‘ōrer...
3rd SHEET
Summary: Three perspectives that intersect. That of Māmā Vahineri’i, a Tahitian healer from another time, and the Maunier family, who...
The dust of Daech
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Maxha – Raising the head
Nouméa. Tjibaou Cultural Centre. 20 years after its creation, the traditional space is renovating the large house of the South. The goal: to open the door to the...
History Bites Back
Australia. The same story can be told by different voices. This is what we are shown, from the perspective of the indigenous people...
THE DREAMLIFE OF GEORGIE STONE
Summary: The film tells the extraordinary story of a young trans woman in Australia. As a young woman, she helped change the...
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