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...
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Tehe – Peritome
In Polynesia, circumcision, tehe, existed before the Western presence. It was an ancestral rite, marking the passage from childhood to adulthood...
Sana, the crystal that consumes
More than cannabis, methamphetamine, nicknamed ice or sana, is now the most consumed drug in French Polynesia. Mal...
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...
Off Country
Australia, state of Victoria. Back to school 2020 at Geelong Grammar School, a high school open to both girls and boys. The students...
Ngā Wai and Rua: Stories of Us
More than a century of images from the history of Aotearoa provide views of the past filmed by both Māori and non-Māori, of...
Mana
It is so many things at once. The force, the primordial divinity, the effect and the cause, the matter and the engine, the creation,...
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...
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...
Broken destinies
New Caledonia. Between 1892 and 1939, about 10,000 Japanese came to work on the Caillou. Some of them stayed there. They fo...
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...
Calédonian coffee: the alchemy of a country
A journey through the history of cocoa, the taste and culture of this bean. Following a Kanak-Calédonien mestizo, É...
Brassy Hussies
The Australia of the 1950s and 60s was a political and social system largely dominated by men. Brazen Hussies tells the story of a young man who...
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...
The Bowraville Murders
Australia. Gumbayngi Country. 1990. Following the mysterious disappearance of 3 young Aboriginal people, a young woman, a child and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Maralinga Tjarutja
Australia. The Maralinga people had lived on their land for tens of thousands of years. The close relationship between the Aborigines and the...
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...
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...
140 km west of paradise
In the highlands of Papua New Guinea, a tribe has lived for eons. These Papuans sing and dance,...
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