Two tribes. One love.
In a traditional tribal society in the South Pacific, a young girl, Wawa, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an inter-tribal war escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal. The young lovers run away, refusing her arranged fate. They must choose between their hearts and the future of the tribe, while the villagers must wrestle with preserving their traditional culture and adapting it to the increasing outside demands for individual freedom.
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Grave, earnest, prestige and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Renoon TMDB · Feb 20178/10
**Romeo-Juliet of Tanna island tribe.** The film is this year's version of 'Embrace of the Serpent' at the Oscars. Yes, it is one of the five films to clash for the tag of the Best Foreign Language Film on the behalf of the Australia. Though the entire film was shot on Vanuatu's Tanna island and Nauvahal was the language spoken in it with the natives performing the film roles. This was really a stunning film. I had a misconception during my childhood that all tribal people, mostly from the deep jungles are so cruel just like the North Sentinel Island people. I never visited such place or met such people, but some documentaries and feature films taught me many things. This is one of those films to highlight them and their culture. The people from the Tanna island rejected to adopt the outside culture just to save theirs, which is used to be thousands of years old. Everything was taught to their kids, from hunting and gathering to the growing fruits, vegetables and livestocks. But they too have rivals with their neighbour tribe that sometimes end with casualties on the both sides. This film was a romance-drama, when the young couple's love was rejected by their elders, how they fough
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Cast
- Mungau DainDain
- Marie WawaWawa
- Marceline RofitSelin
- Kapan CookKapan Cook
- Charlie KahlaChief Charlie
- Lingai KowiaFather
- Dadwa MungauGrandmother
- Albi NagiaGrandfather and Shaman
Crew
- Bentley DeanDirector
- Martin ButlerDirector
- Martin ButlerWriter
- Bentley DeanWriter
- John ColleeWriter
- Bentley DeanDirector of Photography
- Antony PartosOriginal Music Composer
- Tania NehmeEditor
- Martin ButlerProducer
- Carolyn JohnsonProducer
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