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- When the name Hikueru is mentioned, all the other surrounding islands shudder with fear. Because in the story, when someone from Hikueru says anything it comes true. In Hikueru speech is sacred. Tapu was born in Hikueru. Until the age of nine, he grew up with his grandfather in Reka Reka. There is no better place in the universe than the Tuamotus, Tapu tells us. Tapu Bonnet descends from the great names of French Polynesia. He can recite his genealogy over several centuries. Forty years ago he was one of the seeds, one of those who renovated and restored this culture which was prohibited: walking on fire, tattooing... Incredible the flowering that there has been since that time of eighties.
- Tatak ng apat na alon tribe, is better known in English as Mark of the four wawes tribe. Made up of just over 150 members, this collective based in Los Angeles popularizes traditional Filipino tattooing around the world. At its head for more than twenty years, we find the famous artist Elle Festin and his wife, Zelle Festin.
- The Hawaiki Nui Va'a is the "Super Bowl" of French Polynesia (Tahiti). The crew followed open-ocean, 6-man outrigger canoes racing between Tahitian Islands, Huahine, Taha'a, Raiatea and Bora Bora. The ESPN-distributed TV special included stories of particular elite Tahitian oarsmen about their culture and lifestyle in the beautiful islands of French Polynesia. The Host was Craig Hummer, of ESPN [us].
- Better known as Sampaguita Jay, Jade is one of the black and gray tattoo specialists in France. With the Mark of the Four Wawes Tribe collective, she helps popularize traditional Filipino tattooing, where she is from. In Moorea in French Polynesia she experienced one of the happiest days of her life during the Tatau i Moorea festival.
- Kua and Teriki will soon get married. They live on the distant Tureia island in the French Polynesia, Pacific Ocean and have just been told that something is wrong with their son Maokis heart. It is a consequence of living only 100 km away from the island of Moruroa, where France has tested 193 atom bombs for 30 years. Several of their family members are sick and Moruroa can soon collapse, which can lead to a tsunami likely to drown all of them. Vive La France is a personal and intimate story about harvesting the consequences of the French atomic program.
- The current news for Tahiti and her islands in Tahitian.
- Laurent Delahousse welcomes a guest for a major interview in "8:30 pm Le Dimanche." A live musical performance follows.
- This film takes the form of an investigation into the life and work of the sculptor Vaiere Mara, born in 1936 in Rurutu, in the Austral Islands (French Polynesia) and died in Arue in 2005. Mara sculpted wood, coral and stone and his production was remarkable and noticed from the 1960s. Many local personalities placed orders with the man whom some considered the first contemporary Polynesian artist. The film traces the director's journey in search of Mara's works, scattered across islands and continents, and the personal story of this exceptional artist. Combining testimonies from those close to him, reconstructions of the founding moments of his career and documentation of the works found, this film appears as an investigation that is at once human, artistic and detective... which allows us to reconstruct the context of Vaiere Mara's creation.
- In the eulogy she wrote to her, Amelie tells her sister's story, from her rebirth as a woman to the assault that will lead to her death.
- A life changing event sends Tane back to Tahiti where he will have to reconnect to his self and and love again.
- Conceptualised, filmed, edited, and screened in 7 days, Belle Phaeton is the story of two Tahitian women and their experiences being transgender. Belle Phaeton was created in 1 week during The 20th Festival International du Film Documentaire Océanien (FIFO), as a co-production between Tahitian and Australian workshop members.
- Francis Falanisisi is one of the pillars of Bruno Loyale's Magic Circus of Samoa. It features balancing acts, acrobatics, and also aerial belts. Every evening he makes the circus audience tremble with his varied acts. Then it's not finished, we still have to dismantle the marquee, then transport the containers to the boat which will take them to another island.
- Poet John Mairai accepted the role of leader of the Nuna'a e Hau troupe. He was inspired by a legend recorded in the book Tahiti in Ancient Times to write a metaphorical libretto on the theme of revolt. Nuna'a e Hau tells the story of Terehe, a young girl who does as she pleases when the gods have imposed rationing on her island of Raiatea. To punish her for going swimming when even the wind was forbidden to blow, the gods sent her an eel and struck her with epilepsy. The director followed John Mairai from the first rehearsals to the final triumph: Nuna'a e Hau was the most successful Heiva i Tahiti troupe for more than twenty years, winning six awards.
- Toetu Ha Song has been the famous clown of Bruno Loyale's Magic Circus of Samoa for over twenty years. He loves to entertain people, especially children, and considers his uniqueness to be a gift from heaven. Every evening, he makes an audience of several hundred people laugh with his act. The Magic Circus of Samoa is the only circus in the Pacific. It is very popular from Polynesia to Australia.
- Almost all young people in Vaininiore are into sports. Some in the dugout, others in football, volleyball, but most are in boxing. Thai boxing. Behind the Eastern Bridge fire station in Papeete, the Vaininiore district has the reputation of being a red-light district. This is where a hard core of around twenty fighters trains in the evening, but there are new ones arriving all the time... Not all of them last long... Team Arupa is Hentz Tinomoe. He is a good coach, patient, a little tough when it comes to training... There is a good atmosphere, good understanding, a good spirit of cohesion at Vaininiore, VNR for the young people... A united team. Before each international competition, the Team Arupa and Tini Thai Boxing clubs come together for joint preparation. In this film, they are preparing a trip to New Zealand.
- Makau Foster is a Tahitian dance choreographer and founder of the famous Tamariki Poerani troupe. On January 30, 2016, 2,950 dancers gathered in Makau on the island of Tahiti to beat the ori Tahiti world record held by Mexico. It happened on the Atimaono golf course.
- Created in 2010, the Putahi or Kotahitanga is a gathering of artists and art students from the Pacific (Tahiti, Aotearoa, Tonga, New-Caledonia, Hawaii, Fiji) which goal is to promote the sharing of knowledge and skills in order to inscribe the Oceania's cultures on the international artistic scene and counter the European's idea that Oceania's don't have a word to designate the art like in the western world. Shot in New-Zealand in 2016, this documentary dives into the artistic creation and community life of the fourth edition of the Putahi. The artists reveal through questions and reflections, their practices, their doubts and their creative process.
- There's a feeling where every action and movement flows from the previous one. A focus found by immersing yourself in something you love that creates an effortless melody of being fully alive. It's called flow state.
- A young girl from the Samoan Islands, Tara Kome Vaa has been an artist in Bruno Loyale's Magic Circus of Samoa since the age of seventeen. Every evening, the beauty makes the audience scream with her rola bola number. The Magic Circus of Samoa is the only circus in the Pacific. It is very popular from Polynesia to Australia.
- Roland Tiaipoi is a Thai boxing trainer in Tahiti. He takes care of the young people in his neighborhood of Tipaerui, he channels them. It's long-term work, as Roland Darrouzes, president of the Tahitian Federation of Thai Boxing and associated disciplines, says. Roland is not alone, Polynesia has around fifteen clubs. Unknown to the general public, he chose pragmatism.
- This film focuses on the links between Maori tattoo artists from New Zealand (James Webster, Juliee Paama Penguely, Moko de la Terre) and those from French Polynesia (Roonui Anania, Chimé, Laurent Purotu). With interventions by specialists Sébastien Galliot and Michael Koch.
- Coming from a long line of singers, since his father, his grandfather and even his great-grandfather were known for their musical talents, Barthélémy Arakino was born in 1956. He grew up among the Tuamotu and its district of Outumaoro, in Tahiti. The boy learned to write songs from his father, in the Paumotu language of Hao. At nineteen, he went to France for the first time with the army. The success of his first song recorded in the studio, On my return from metropolis, opened the world to him. He was thus able to travel in Europe and the United States, performing on various stages. Barthélémy has long been the only singer to make a decent living from his royalties in French Polynesia. Filmed just before his death in 2015, this film is the only documentary dedicated to this sacred monster.
- Aged 83, Taverio Richmond is doing well. He is very involved in defending the indigenous rights of the Polynesian people. Particularly when it comes to land. He still climbs trees like a real chimpanzee. He is worse than Tarzan, his friend Tapu says of him.
- Tefana Tufaimea is a figure from the commune of Faa'a, on the island of Tahiti. He is the champion of traditional Maohi sports in the aito category (stone lifting, fruit carrier race and canoe). He is also a dancer and Mister Mini Heiva. Portrait of a discreet man who deserves to be known.
- The "Globe of Death" is a sensational, very dangerous circus act, which was popularized in the United States by Douglas Mac Valley. Mac Valley ended his days in Samoa, and he passed the baton to Bruno Loyale who has been presenting the "Globe of Death" in his Magic Circus of Samoa for thirty years. Within the Magic Circus of Samoa, three motorcycles compete in the metal globe. In 2019, for the first time a woman is at the helm: Yudy Serna Rodriguez is Colombian. In his family, all his brothers fly around the globe. She is the only girl. Her husband Sébastien Moreno Delgado is her partner in the globe. The third man is Brazilian. Together Yudy and Sébastien open and close the Magic Circus show, first with an aerial acrobatics number, then in the globe. They also rehearse a spectacular new number.
- Portrait of Sanson, a young Tahitian artist passionate about roosters. Cockfighting was introduced to Polynesia by early Chinese immigrants. It took place everywhere, on all the islands. Wherever there was a Chinese trader he organized a cockfight, to the extent that he had fighting cocks. But this is not a particularly Chinese cultural trait. It doesn't come from China. Cockfighting is extremely old in the Mediterranean and throughout southern Asia, and in particular the Philippines where it was very organized.
- From the Sun, sounds like a postcard and allows us to discover the heritage of French Polynesia from the sky, through a tour of the archipelagos.
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- Discovery of the community of Vitaria, on the island of Rurutu in the Austral archipelago in Polynesia. In Vitaria we are Rurutu Protestants. This church draws on its autochthony to regain control over individuals and their native land. To stay in the symbolism, it should be noted that the geographical point furthest from Jerusalem is located in the Austral archipelago, south of the island of Rapa. The prism of local Christianity will be an opportunity to focus on the lives of the people of Vitaria, to get to know Patia Taputu, a charismatic character who is a farmer, breeder and fisherman. His wife Tiare is a recognized craftswoman. The couple raised their seven children on vanilla, coffee, egg production and making woven hats from white pandanus.
- Charne Potgieter Salgueiroza is a South African contortionist and acrobat who performs primarily in Dubai, South America and the Pacific. We get to know her within Bruno Loyale's Magic Circus of Samoa, the only circus in the Pacific. Every evening she presents two different numbers. Sometimes there are several performances per day.
- Unanimously considered the greatest choreographer Polynesia has known, Coco Hotahota is a dance master. He is one of the rare group leaders, if not the only one, to actually take care of the entire production chain of a show, whether it is writing the theme, writing the songs, composing. , costume creation, choreography. In 1962 he created his troupe, Te Maeva, which in 55 years of existence will have been the most successful troupe in the history of Heiva i Tahiti, and also the largest troupe in terms of number, more than 150 dancers in peak, in the 80s. Today we have the impression that Coco, who has long represented modernity, has become a bit of a reference for tradition. It's the whole contradiction of the character that we also admire for that. This film traces the long history of Te Maeva.