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WE ARE STILL HERE

Experimental - Completed 2021

WE ARE STILL HERE is a unique Indigenous film that interweaves eight powerful tales to tell a sweeping story of hope and survival.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2022

World Cinema

Sydney 2022

Opening Night

imagineNATIVE 2022

Best Drama Feature Film

MIFF 2022

CineFestOz 2022

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Experimental, Historical
- Countries
- AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND
- Languages
- ENGLISH, MAORI, SAMOAN
- Budget
- 3 - 5 M$
- Duration
- 89 mn
- Synopsis
- WE ARE STILL HERE is a unique Indigenous film that interweaves eight powerful tales to tell a sweeping story of hope and survival.
  
  Through the eyes of eight protagonists, WE ARE STILL HERE traverses 1000 years from past, present, and future to explore stories of kinship, loss, grief, and resilience. But ultimately, it shows the strength of love and hope to overcome shared traumas that Indigenous people from Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific have continued to face.
  
  From the beginning of time, in a Utopian world, a traditional fisherwoman and her daughter are fishing when they pull up an ominous ship, foreshadowing stormy seas and tragedy to follow. Forward to 1862, a British Settler threatens an Aboriginal man to lead him to safety, whilst in New Zealand, tribes cocooned deep in the forest are preparing for a terrifying future.
  
  In 1915, men from the Pacific were sent to support the British Colony in World War One fighting for a land that isn't theirs, with uncertainty of ever seeing home again. Flashing forward into a dystopian future, a young child must navigate her way through a dangerous underground marketplace to save her grandfather and survive.
  
  Rob, a young Aboriginal /Māori man joins the famous 1981 Springboks protest in Auckland whilst searching for his estranged father, only to find once being locked up that he’s in search of himself and not an absent parent, to 2019 where a young Aboriginal woman through a racist attack loses her mother and rebels against society with street art. Seeking revenge against the system, she questions whether or not to burn down Captain Cook’s cottage in Melbourne, a building treasured by the monarchists and right-wing alike. Meanwhile Ken in Alice Springs fights a daily battle of trying to purchase alcohol where it’s illegal for an Aboriginal person to do so who dwells in an Aboriginal community due to the removal of the discrimination act in the Northern Territory.
  
  WE ARE STILL HERE showcases the expansive landscapes of the Central Australian Desert to the lush green rainforests of New Zealand.
  
  In spite of colonialism, racism, imperialism and the attempted erasure of our cultures, languages and race, WE ARE STILL HERE.

WE ARE STILL HERE

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