Events Tag: Pacific Human Rights Film Festival

Saturday 18th October at Damodar City Cinemas, VX Screen. CLOSING CEREMONY: Ocean with David Attenborough (UK/World) David Attenborough explores the planet’s undersea habitats, revealing the greatest age of ocean discovery and emphasising the ocean’s vital importance while exposing its problems and highlighting opportunities for marine life recovery. Attenborough shows us that glorious places of colour and light […]

Wednesday 15th October, USP Laucala Fier.e.s La Voix du Pacifique (French Polynesia) In French Polynesia, transgender people evolve with apparent fluidity in all aspects of society. Their presence, observed as early as the 18th century by Western travellers and missionaries, has continued to intrigue and fascinate, producing over time numerous myths that transgender women and men in Polynesia […]

Wednesday 8th October, USP Laucala No Other Land (Palestine/Israel) Academy Award for Best Documentary 2025 This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval. No Other Land, for its many images of […]

Wednesday 1st October at USP Laucala Campus YUMI (Pacific/World) In 2019, eight students attending law school at USP in Vanuatu formed a group that became the Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC). After years of working towards securing the necessary support from other countries (states), in 2023, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted overwhelmingly to […]

Saturday 4th October at Damodar City Cinemas, VX Screen. Flow (Latvia) Academy Award for Best Animated Feature 2025 Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences. An eco-parable, Flow is deliberately […]

Nellie, Daisy and Lou form a rebellious alliance at a 1954 island institution for delinquent girls. Their friendship empowers them against the system until the matron’s tactics threaten their bond. We Were Dangerous is the directorial debut of Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu, from a screenplay by Maddie Dai. It stars Rima Te Wiata, Erana James, Nathalie […]