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- In the 1980s almost no one was tattooed in Polynesia. With the cultural renaissance in general, and also political demands at different levels, tattooing has once again become a form of expression and also a certain attitude, sometimes described as maohitude. Today we no longer live in traditional societies. Tavana Salmon tattoos Chimé when he was fourteen years old. Chimé liked drawing and painting, and in addition his cousin Laurent Purotu began to learn engraving and sculpture at the arts and crafts center. And every time he left school, he showed his cousin what he had learned. Chimé introduces himself as Tahua Tatau. A tattoo artist from Moorea, he has been living in Europe for over twenty years. Today his salon is located in Bordeaux. Roonui Anania, Chimé and Purotu started tattooing themselves and tattooing in the street, by snatch, that means with sewing needles attached to match sticks, then electric razors. Indian ink in a beer cap and off we went. Then Tavana Salmon brought back the first pig tooth combs, which they were not able to use for long due to hygiene. Impossible to sterilize. We had to go back to the electric razor, look for solutions. This film tells the story of the rebirth of Polynesian tattooing, then its expansion, told by the three greatest masters of Polynesian tattooing.
- On August 27, 2011, the Billabong Pro Tahiti event on surfing's World Tour was placed on hold due to a massive swell bearing down on the famed big-wave spot, Teahupoo. With forecasts calling for unprecedented surf, some of the greatest surfers in the world descended on the island to be in the water, despite a "Code Red" called by the Tahitian Coast Guard, which sought to keep everyone on shore. See the historic day through the eyes of two surfers -- the young gun Laurie Towner and the veteran Dylan Longbottom -- as they catch some of the biggest, most dangerous surf ever recorded, much of it captured with the super slow motion Phantom Camera for never-before-seen imagery
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 is the sequel to the film Coco Hotahota Te Maeva. It chronicles the exchanges between Coco Hotahota and the San Francisco troupe Hui Tarava, from the last Farereiraa organized in Tahiti to the first Farereiraa in San Francisco. A film dedicated to the memory of Coco Hotahota, the major choreographer of Tahitian dance.
- Laurent Delahousse welcomes a guest for a major interview in "8:30 pm Le Dimanche." A live musical performance follows.
- 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.
- 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.
- A life changing event sends Tane back to Tahiti where he will have to reconnect to his self and and love again.
- Cyril, a young soldier of mixed race, returns to Tahiti after a long mission. He sees his family and friends again, but nothing is the same. An indefinable suffering begins to grow in him...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Teva, a young Tahitian with a passion for filmmaking, was compelled to leave his homeland to fulfill his ambitions. Having become a director, he returns to Tahiti and is once again confronted with the same painful choice that he had to make ten years before; should he stay or go? Did he make the right choice the last time?