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MA'OHI NUI, IN THE HEART OF THE OCEAN MY COUNTRY LIES

MA'OHI NUI, AU COEUR DE L'OCÉAN MON PAYS

By Annick GHIJZELINGS

Social issues - Completed 2018

Berlinale - EFM 2018

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- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Social issues, Documentary
- Countries
- BELGIUM
- Languages
- FRENCH, MAORI
- Duration
- 113 mn
- Director(s)
- Annick GHIJZELINGS
- Producer(s)
- Isabelle TRUC (IOTA PRODUCTION)
- Synopsis
- Tahiti, French Polynesia. Between the runway of the International airport and a small mound of earth 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 one cannot feel or see, but that persists for hundreds of thousands of years, the contamination of minds has slowly and permanently installed itself. Today the Ma'ohi people are a subordinate people who have forgotten their language, ignored their history and have lost their connection to their land and their relationship to the world.
  Yet within this neighbourhood of coloured sheds, something survives, something tenuous, hidden, almost invisible, which resists erasure.
  By confronting the Ma'ohi spirit with its history of nuclear tests 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