There Once Was an Island
Te Henua e Nnoho
dir. Briar March, New Zealand, 2010, 80 mins
Screening times
May 14 13:00, Kinoteka 6
May 8 13:00, Kinoteka 2
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Synopsis

What if your community had to decide whether to leave their homeland forever and there was no help available? This is the reality for the culturally unique Polynesian community of Takuu, a tiny low-lying atoll in the South Western Pacific. As a terrifying tidal flood rips through their already damaged home, the Takuu community experiences the devastating effects of climate change first hand.

In this verite-style film, three intrepid characters Teloo, Endar and Satty, allow us into their lives and their culture and show us first hand the human impact of an environmental crisis. Two scientists, oceanographer John Hunter and geomorphologist Scott Smithers, investigate the situation with our characters and consider the impact of climate change on communities without access to resources or support. Intimate observational scenes allow Teloo, Endar and Satty to take us on their personal journeys as they consider whether to move to an uncertain future in Bougainville or to stay on Takuu and fight for a different, but equally uncertain, outcome.

This film gives a human face to the direct impacts of climate change in the Pacific, challenging audiences everywhere to consider their own relationship to the earth and the other people on it.

Wybrane nagrody i festiwale /Selected festivals and awards: 2010 - Docoquantas, 2010 - FIFO, 2010- Natural Facts Award Big Sky, 2010 – Nagroda Development Award Millenium/ Developmemt Award Millenium, 2010 - AOF Festival, 2010 - One World Prague, 2010 - One World Bratislava, 2010 - ATL 365, Millenium Brussels, 2010 – NZIFF

Makers

Zdjęcia/Cinematography by: Briar March
Produkcja /Production: Carl-A. Fechner, Lyn Collie, Briar March

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