Māoriland Rangatahi Film Festival 2020 Day Two

MĀORILAND FILM FESTIVAL REMOUNT 2020

Wairua Shorts

Thursday 24 September, 1:30 pm, Māoriland Hub

Every living thing including the land, mountains, rivers, oceans has a wairua - a spirit, a soul existing beyond death. This collection of short films speaks of the wairua within and around us.

Recommended for mature audiences. Themes include depression, suicide and PTSD.

Ways to See

Year: 2019 Director: Jessica Sanderson Duration: 15 minutes Language: English, Māori Nation: Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga, Te Ātiawa, Te Ati Haunui-a-pāpārangi, Te Aitangā-ā-Hauiti, Ngāti Porou Amaia lives with her depressed mother. With no outside support, she desperately seeks her absent father. Believing a mysterious woman can reconnect them, Amaia goes to extreme lengths to win her attention.

I Matai (The Dead)

Year: 2016 Director: Kyle Perron Duration: 10 minutes Language: Chamoru with English Subtitles Nation: Chamoru

A fallen warrior is honoured by his family in an experimental take on the ancient Chamoru burial. Koro Year: 2019 Director: Nicholas Riini Duration: 12 minutes Language: Māori, English Nation: Ngāi Tūhoe The sounds of combat intrude on Koro’s memory of his days in the jungle during the Vietnam war. He is catapulted back to that time; the fear and torment moving him to seek a safe haven.

Caribou in the Archive

Year: 2019 Director: Jennifer Dysart Duration: 8 minutes Language: English Nation: Cree

Northern Indigenous women who hunt are at the heart of this recovered footage film. The filmmaker describes enigmatic events leading up to saving an important piece of family history

from being lost forever.

Gáidat / máhccat (Dissociate)

Year: 2019 Director: Sunna Nousuniemi Duration: 2 minutes Language: Northern Sámi with English Subtitles Nation: Sámi

This debut film (from our 2016 Māoriland intern) is an exploration of disconnection, survival and healing and grounding oneself.

Tsi Teyoto:te

Year: 2019 Director: Jonathan Elliott Duration: 3 minutes Language: Kanien’keha (Mohawk language) with English subtitles Nation: Tuscarora

A visual poem examining the impact of underage drinking in Indigenous communities and the struggle to overcome grief and past traumas through culture and traditional practices. XO Rad Magical Year: 2019 Director: Christopher Gilbert Grant Duration: 1 minutes Language: English Nation: Pabineau First Nation XO Rad Magical is a personal lyrical poem about the daily struggle of living with schizophrenia. This psychedelic and hypnotic film shows there is beauty in the minds of those who are at war with themselves.

Giitu Giitu (Thank You Lord)

Year: 2019 Director: Elle Sofe Sara Duration: 6 minutes Language: Sámi with English subtitles Nation: Sámi

Giitu giitu/ Thank you Lord gives an Indigenous insight to the Laestadian

trance.

Toa`ipuapuagā (Strength in Suffering)

Year: 2018 Director: Vea Mafile’o Duration: 10 minutes Language: English Nation: Tonga, Māori When a young Samoan woman is stricken with bleeding stigmata during an Easter church service, she faces adoration and condemnation from her deeply religious island community, whilst struggling with her life as a wife and mother.

Thursday 24 September, 4:00 pm, Māoriland Hub

Year: 2020 Nation: Māori, Sámi, Amis, Kasavakan

Through Our Lens is a film leadership and collaboration initiative created by Māoriland Charitable Trust to grow the film skills and networks between Māori and other young Indigenous filmmakers.

In two-day filmmaking workshops designed and led entirely by young Māori filmmakers (14-24) short films are created with other Indigenous youth. Films in this programme were made in Taiwan and Sápmi (Northern Finland) in January 2020.

The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open

Thursday 24 September, 3:00 pm The Civic Theatre

Year: 2019 Director: Elle-Maija Tailfeathers, Kathleen Hepburn Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes Language: English Nation: Sámi, Blackfoot After a traumatic event, two Indigenous women in Vancouver form a deep bond despite leading different lives. 13 +

One Day In The Life of Noah Piugattuk

Thursday 24 September, 6:30 pm, Māoriland Hub

Year: 2019 Director: Zacharias Kunuk Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes Language: Inukitut, English with English Subtitles Nation: Inuit A nomadic Inuit band live and hunt by dog team, just as their ancestors did. A chance meeting soon opens the prospect for momentous change.

Thursday 24 September, 6:30 pm, The Civic Theatre

Year: 2018 Director: Lisa Taouma Duration: 56 minutes Language: English, Samoan with English Subtitles Nation: Samoan

The practice of tatau in the Pacific was once the domain of women, yet this ancient female art has been sidelined by history. This is the story of Moana women who are once more etching the marks of their ancestors upon their bodies.

Take Home Pay

Thursday 24 September, 8:00 pm The Civic Theatre

Year: 2019 Director: Stallone Vaiaoga-Ioasa Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes Language: English, Samoan with English subtitles Nation: Samoa

Alama refuses to go back to Samoa until he catches his brother Popo (Longi Taulafo), who took his hardearned money. Alama contacts his relative, aspiring Private Investigator Bob Titilo (Tofiga Fepulea’i), for help, though his ‘unconventional’ approach to solve the case may hinder more than it helps.

Fukry

Thursday 24 September, 9:00 pm, Māoriland Hub

Year: 2019 Director: Blackhorse Lowe Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes Language: English, Navajo with English subtitles Nation: Navajo FUKRY is a doom rom-com set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This utterly unique feature film follows a group of Native American men and women as they go through the ups and downs of love. 18 +

Screening with: Ho mamma e dau for hælvete (Mum’s Dead For Fuck’s Sake)

Year: 2019 Director: Per Ivar Jensen Duration: 14 minutes Language: Norwegian, Northern Sámi with English Subtitles Nation: Sámi