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OPHIR

By Alexandre BERMAN , Olivier POLLET

Environmental - Completed 2020

A poetic yet dramatic ode to the indelible thirst of a peoples for freedom, culture and sovereignty, Ophir documents the visible and invisible chains of colonisation, as well as its enduring cycles of physical and psychological warfare.

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FIFO 2020

Grand Prix

Doc Edge 2020

Suncine 2020

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Environmental, Social issues, Documentary
- Countries
- FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 97 mn
- Director(s)
- Alexandre BERMAN , Olivier POLLET
- Writer(s)
- Alexandre BERMAN, Olivier POLLET
- Producer(s)
- Ilann GIRARD (ARSAM INTERNATIONAL), Olivier POLLET (Four Worlds Film ), Kristian LASSLETT
- Synopsis
- Ophir tells the story behind the likely birth of the world’s newest nation on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea. The story of an unknown indigenous revolution and a decade long war. The film documents its origin and aftermath, where antagonistic visions of the world collude and collide. A poetic yet dramatic ode to the indelible thirst of a peoples for freedom, culture and sovereignty; it offers a gripping exposition of the visible and invisible chains of colonisation and its enduring cycles of physical and psychological warfare.

OPHIR

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