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Sky Aelan Year: 2019 Duration: 7 minutes Nation: Solomon Islands

Standing Above the Clouds

An island nation reflects on the sacred connection to their mountains. They are at risk of being lost to logging.

Year: 2019 Director: Jalena Keane Lee Duration: 15 minutes Language: English Nation: Kanaka Maoli

Shot and directed by nine Solomon Island filmmaker from multiple Indigenous communities around the country. Produced with support from Nia Tero Foundation.

The story of inter-generational women activists, Ku Kia’i Mauna (guardians of the mountain), who are at the forefront of the movement to stop an 18 storey telescope from being built on Mauna Kea.

The Crying Fields Year: 2019 Director: Hayley Morin Duration: 19 minutes Language: English Nation: Enoch Cree Nation In 2014, the Enoch Cree Nation discovered unexploded landmines left from World War II when their land was used as a practice bombing site. Forcing the closure of two vital parts of their community, the nation tries to pick up the pieces and move on.


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