MA’OHI NUI, In the Heart of the Ocean My Country Lies
International Competition
Taïwan International Documentary Film Festival 2018
Official Selection
Berlinale
2018
| Length | 113' |
| Format | HD |
| Language | Fr, Ma'ohi |
| Subtitles | En |
Synopsis
| Synopsis | Tahiti, French Polynesia. Between the runway of the International airport and a small dirt hill lies a district called the Flamboyant. Over there, one says "district" as not to say "shantytown." French colonial history and thirty years of nuclear tests have filled these districts with an alienated and tired people. Like the radioactivity that cannot be felt or seen, but persists for hundreds of thousands of years, the contamination of their minds has slowly but permanently settled. Today the Ma'ohi people are a subordinate people who have forgotten their language, ignored their history and have lost connection to their land and their relationship with the world. Yet within this neighbourhood of coloured sheds, something survives, something tenuous, hidden, almost invisible, which resists and persists. By confronting the Ma'ohi spirit with its nuclear history and its fractured existence, the film shows the face of contemporary colonisation and the vital impetus of a people trying not to forget themselves and who, silently, are seeking the path of independence. |
| Bouton Trailer | Trailer |
| Team | Direction & writing Annick Ghijzelings |
| Production | produced by Iota production |
| Links |
| Festivals | Berlinale 2018 – 02/18 GERMANY BEFF Barents – 04/18 RUSSIA Taïwan International Documentary Film Festival – 05/18 TAIWAN KFF KEAKOW Film Festival 2018 – 05/18 POLAND WAIROA Film Festival 2018 – 06/18 NEW ZEALAND Zones Portuaires Festival 2018 – 06/18 FRANCE Festival de cinéma aborigène 2018 – 06/18 FRANCE VFF Valetta Film Festival 2018 – 06/18 MALTA PARNU International Film Festival 2018 – 06/18 ESTONIA IFFA MACAO International Film Festival 2018 – 07/18 MACAO SOLE LUNA Film Festival – 07/18 SICILIA DOKUFEST – International Documentary and Short Film Festival – 08/18 KOSOVO Festival de Cinéma de Douarnenez – 08/18 FRANCE FIFIG – Festival du film insulaire de l’ile de Groix – 08/18 FRANCE |
