The People’s Chosen One – Pouvana’a Te Metua – FIFO 2012

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90 min – French Polynesia – 2011

Version: French

Director : Marie Hélène Villierme

Producer : Tuatau Production / Polynésie 1ère

The archival film on the destiny of Pouvana’a a ‘O’opa, the metua or spiritual father, illustrates a little-known yet decisive chapter of contemporary Polynesian history. Many interviews and commentaries shed light on the context in which the “Metua” came before French colonial justice.

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Private: LUCIEN KIMITETE, UN HOMME DE LA TERRE DES HOMMES – FIFO 2011

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52 minutes – French Polynesia – 2010

Version French:French subtitled in English

Achievement: Dominique Agniel

Production: L’envol Productions, RFO

May 23, 2002: Lucien’s small tourist plane and four other people disappeared, body and belongings, over the Tuamotu Islands. Lucien Kimitete, Boris Léontieff and their two deputies were on an election campaign. In Marquises, the trauma is considerable. Even today, the Marquises are orphans of the man who had made their dreams come true and brought their pride back, carrying the words and culture of Marquises far beyond the seas. Lucien «the bird» who loved to fly over his islands, attached to his paraglider, fell in mid-flight, but his voice still resonates.

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