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Vakaraitaka

Fiji | 2024 | 15 min. | Fenton Lutunatabua (Fijian)

This four-part cinematic poem weaves together multiple layers of beauty, pain, colonialism, climate change culture, and loss.

Co-Directors Fenton Bose Lutunatabua, DJ Lutunatabua, and Thelma Lutunatabua scheduled to attend.

  • Director: Fenton Lutunatabua (Fijian)
  • Principal Cast: Alisi Rabukawaqa, Kautea Tora, Jed Taylor, Henry Steele
  • Premiere Status: North American
  • Country: Fiji
  • Year: 2024
  • Running Time: 15 min.
  • Producer: Fenton Lutunatabua
  • Screenplay: Fenton Lutunatabua
  • Cinematographers: Only Ideas Studios
  • Editors: Alipate Laveti
  • Music: Micah Garrido
  • Website: Official Film Website
  • Language: English, Fijian

This film is playing as a part of Moving Poetry: Indigenous Stories

This selection of short, Indigenous-made films exemplifies the poetic language of the body as memory, cultural healing, and relationship to the natural world.

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