Discoveries from Fiji World Cinema

Status Quo play a series of shows in Fiji and become embroiled in a secret Russian Roulette ring lorded over by Jon Lovitz.

Former indie film "guru" John Pierson takes his family to Fiji for one year to run the world's most remote movie theater.

Eight connecting moments of seemingly different lives thread together Vai’s journey of empowerment through culture over her lifetime. Beautifully shot over seven Pacific countries, and played by a different indigenous actress in each place, Vai links together a story of family, culture, and at times, isolation. A delicate exploration into the meaning of growth, adaptation, and most notably, a connection to water and home.

On this auspicious day, a giant, double hulled canoe, called a ‘Drua’, is destined to be launched with full pomp and ceremony at sea. And in all the flurry, there is a man who, along with others, is lined up to be a human human sacrifice for the Drua.

Recording a 24-hour period throughout every country in the world, we explore a greater diversity of perspectives than ever seen before on screen. We follow characters and events that evolve throughout the day, interspersed with expansive global montages that explore the progression of life from birth, to death, to birth again. In the end, despite unprecedented challenges and tragedies throughout the world, we are reminded that every day we are alive there is hope and a choice to see a better future together. Founded in 2008, it set out to explore our planet's identity and challenges in an attempt to answer the question: Who are we?

A humble young security guard in the Fiji Islands rising from the struggles of city life pursues his dream of becoming a professional boxer as he steps into the ring to provide for his struggling family. Facing personal loss, fierce rivals, and a complicated mentor, Sam must fight not just for glory, but for redemption and identity.

People whose family originated in India comprise just over half of Fiji’s population. Indians came to Fiji in colonial times under an indentured labour system to work in the sugar cane fields. Some indigenous Fijians wish to repossess the land now worked by the Indians and this results in Indians feeling insecure about their livelihood. The film looks at the life of Bechu Prasad, an old Indian man, who has lived in Fiji all his life in a large extended family of which he is now head. We watch him at work on his self-owned sugar cane farm and in his position as well-respected community leader who gets on well with both Indian and indigenous Fijians.

With the 2022 Fiji General Elections looming, two Fijians scramble to try to make heads or tails about what politics in Fiji is all about. While new to the subject, they'll quickly learn that it's not all smooth sailing in paradise.

A poetic journey through the life of a woman going through an arranged marriage, animated on traditional Tongan Cloth called Ngatu.

'The Forgotten Pacific' travels to five Pacific islands to discover how communities are weaving indigenous knowledge into the modern-day fight to adapt, rebuild and save their islands from climate change.

A Movie of 4 Friends who end up meesing up with illigal activities

An emotional roller coaster ride of four friends from a poor village in Fiji to the glamor stage in Auckland.

A very relaxing background video compilation of footage of the Fiji islands, backed with the slick Jazz-Fusion tracks by Issei Noro who is best known as the guitarist for the Japanese band Casiopea! See the beautiful islands of Fiji as we fly into the city of Nadi. Then, follow our model/diver above and below the waves. Watch as she walks the warm sandy shores, dives into the beautiful coral reefs, and spends time with the friendly local residents. This BGV recording features all the songs from Issei Noro's 1989 album, "Vida," played in the same order as the music-only release. Performed with a number of well-known Brazilian musicians, the music is relaxing, yet upbeat & exciting. A perfect match for the footage! To make this video even sweeter, the video ends with a Carioca tune!

Fiji High Chief and Prime Minister Ratu Mara shows how archaeology throws new light on the settlement of his island home of Lakeba.

This is the story of sugar in Fiji. The documentary looks at all those involved in the sugar industry, the indigenous landowners, the Indo-Fijian cane farmers, the cane cutters and millers. The commentaries of various people provide the backdrop to an ailing industry and through their narratives we are able to understand this very important industry and not only how it affects the economy of a small country but ultimately how it affects the lives of a quarter of a million of Fiji's population.

This film documents Fiji's constitutional history and provides a background to the coup of 17 May 2000 led by George Speight. In 1999 Fiji had it's first democratically elected Indo-Fijian prime minister, Mahendra Chaudhry. There were issues of race, power, religion, loss of land, indigenous rights. The coup shook the deeply spiritual country to the core and had huge economic and social impacts from which Fiji is still recovering.

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

Many years ago on the island of Beqa (pronounced Mbengga), a tribe called Sawau lived in a mountain village called Navakeisese. In this village there lived a famous storyteller known as Dredre, who regularly entertained the members of the tribe with his stories. It was customary for the people of the village to bring gifts to Dredre in appreciation of his entertainment. On one occasion when asked what gifts he would like, he requested each person of the audience to bring him the first things they would find while hunting the next day. One of the warriors of Beqa called Tui-na-Iviqalita, went fishing for eels (rewai) in a mountain stream. The first thing he caught felt like an eel. When he pulled it out of the mud, it assumed the shape of a Spirit God.

Interviews with former patients of the leprosarium in Makogai, Fiji. Now in their sixties they recount the effects of the disease, the reaction of society to them, the treatment, life on the island. Hansen's disease (leprosy) remains a public health problem in 55 countries (600,000 new cases are reported annually). With the aid of multi-drug therapy (MDT) the disease was eliminated from Fiji by 1993. The World Health Organisation had aims to eliminate the disease worldwide by 2000.

When someone steals his precious flip flops, Jone Wise must return to his old ways of Grog Combat and battle his way through adversity, tribulation and high tide takis to retrieve what is rightfully his.

Two students summon the spirit of Dakuwaqa, an ancestral Fijian deity to help them in their exams.

This documentary about ritual clowning on the Polynesian island of Rotuma in the South Pacific was produced to accompany Vilsoni Hereniko's dissertation titled 'Polynesian Clowns and Satirical Comedies, ' later revised and published under the title 'Woven Gods: Female Clowns and Power in Rotuma.' A social institution that is now very rarely practiced, ritual clowning at traditional Rotuman weddings may appear to the uninitiated to be for the sole purposes of entertainment. This effort to record and document a unique Rotuman tradition, however, suggests that ritual clowning deploys humor for social, cultural, political, and religious purposes that are central to understanding Rotuman history and culture. For a better understanding of the role of ritual clowning and humor on Rotuma, consult not just 'Woven Gods' but Hereniko's feature film 'The Land Has Eyes.

A cursed prince becomes an eel. To go back to being human, he needs to conquer the love of a beautiful woman. Inspired in a polynesian myth.