Réalisation de l’observatoire documentaire de la jeunesse de la DDEC
Le conseil des jeunes a été lancé en 2013, et composé d’élève de la DDEC. Une fois leur cursus terminé, ils ont créé une association dont le but de conseiller des jeunes du Pays. Afin de prolonger le mouvement et de conserver une dynamique, ils organisent une formation audiovisuelle lors du rassemblement de N’Dé pour susciter le débat auprès de leur (...)
Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée. Beaucoup de morts dans le peuple Enugu ces dernières années car les guerres tribales, à présent, ont lieu à l’aide d’armes modernes. Et pourtant chacun joue son rôle. Le chef mène ses hommes à la bataille et le négociateur tente un dialogue et appelle les belligérants à la (...)
Nord de l’Australie. Un jeune chef aborigène, Scott Wujului Mac Dinny, témoigne de l’impact de l’exploitation de mines sur le paysage, de l’évidence irréfutable de la contamination des eaux de la rivière Mac Arthur et des conséquences de cette pollution sur la vie de sa communauté.
Les îles Marshall ont été, entre 1946 et 1958, le principal lieu d’expérimentation des bombes nucléaires américaines dans le Pacifique. Îles sinistrées, populations déplacées, catastrophes sanitaires... les conséquences pour la population, encore ressenties de nos jours, sont dramatiques. Depuis son île plus vraiment paradisiaque, Kathy Jetni Kijine, poète et femme politique, déclame (...)
L’enfant Wetr (symbole de la troupe de danse) est né de la parole de son grand chef Paul Sihaze. L’enfant grandit et évolue au fil des années, sa tenue, les chants et les légendes qu’il danse se diversifient mais l’esprit reste le même. Une force qui demeure fidèle à la parole du grand chef.
Michel Oroffino, association AJI-Cybertribu - Nouvelle-Calédonie,
Gwala Rising in the Bwanabwana Islands
Stéphani Gordon
Une communauté insulaire papoue mène une action pour se protéger de l’impact du réchauffement climatique. Ils décident de revenir à la pratique du gwala, système traditionnel permettant de mieux protéger et pérenniser les ressources de la mer.
Conservation International - Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
Nouvelle traduction : Devant nous mes racines
Adèle Vincenti-Crasson
Noémie, jeune étudiante calédonienne à Paris, se questionne sur ses origines. Loin de leur pays, les calédoniens de différentes communautés se retrouvent pour partager des moments, des avis, des cultures, ce qui permet à la jeune femme d’échanger sur ses interrogations.
Depuis sa chirurgie de la colonne vertébrale, Robyn Youle souffre en permanence, d’une douleur intense, insupportable. Les antalgiques ont été son refuge pendant longtemps, jusqu’au jour où elle décide de les arrêter et de se réfugier dans la musique et la peinture.
À 32 ans, après avoir suivi une formation aux métiers de l’image, Benjamin attend quelque chose. Ou quelqu’un. Il sait qu’il n’y a pas de hasard. Parce que tout tourne autour du soleil.
Laurie-Anne Courson, Benjamin Gorodey - Nouvelle-Calédonie,
Exode Urbain
Élie Violette
Savane de niaoulis dans la région de Moindou : c’est là que Vlad expérimente la culture sur butte, technique respectueuse de l’environnement issue de la permaculture.
Quelque chose est en train de changer dans le Pacifique. Le niveau des marées monte, les récoltes manquent, les tempêtes sont plus violentes et plus fréquentes, les bords de mer s’érodent. Le changement climatique vu des Îles Salomon est évident. Dans les atolls, on parle de désastre. Les populations du bord de mer, placées en première ligne, deviendront bientôt des réfugiés (...)
Light Studios, World Vision Solomon Islands - Australie
Fleur de sel au Pays du roi Nick
Guy Fohringer
Installé à Poingam, Jean Broudisssou valorise les ressources locales en accueillant des visiteurs, en produisant du sel, en distillant des huiles essentielles. Il a impulsé dans ce lieu déshérité un certain art de vivre, qui repose sur le respect de la nature et la solidarité entre les hommes.
En novembre 1982 à La Foa, les tribus de Koindé et Ouipoin bloquent le chantier d’une scierie responsable d’une grave pollution de leur rivière. Un affrontement avec les gardes mobiles venus lever le barrage se solde par la mort de deux gendarmes. En conséquence, la plupart des hommes de la tribu sont jetés en prison, ne laissant à Koindé que femmes et enfants. Aujourd’hui, les (...)
Mémoires Vives Productions - Nouvelle-Calédonie, France
Mangrove Stories (Histoires de mangrove)
Ruth Ketau
En Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, les tribus des îles Tigak et Tsoi utilisent depuis toujours la mangrove comme source de revenus, de nourriture, de matériaux de construction et pour la protection du littoral. Face à la diminution de la mangrove et inquiètes pour les générations futures, elles décident de restaurer les zones (...)
Centre for Social, Creative Media, University of Goroka - Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
The Island
Gabrielle Brady
Île Christmas : ici, depuis la nuit des temps, cinquante millions de crabes migrent lentement de la jungle à l’océan, alors que des milliers de migrants venus chercher refuge en Australie sont définitivement détenus dans la prison de haute sécurité de l’île. Poh Lin, un psychologue, recueille les témoignages émouvants et désenchantés des (...)
"Closing the Gap" looks at the way women from opposing clans in the province of Simbu, in Papua New Guinea, bind together to ensure peace and justice in cases of sorcery and tribal warfare.
Centre for Social, Creative Media, University of Goroka - Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
Échec et Mathadhé
Cristèle Deplanque
Lucky Mathadhé had everything a man could dream of: a wife, children, a job and, as son of the Chief, a status within his tribe... until he decided to move on. With no income, no family and no place to call home, he now lives and breathes for his only passion: chess.
Since I was a kid, I have always wondered how and why my family settled in New Caledonia. Sharing testimonials and confidences, young and not so young Tahitian mates tell me how it all began for them here.
Air and Water pollution, impacts on public health and environment... the situation around the planet is most alarming, and New Caledonia is no exception with its nickel industry and the emergence of consumer society. However, there is some hope thanks to those who promote a nature-friendly and healthier (...)
As the sun rises on the tribe of Galilée, the day starts early and will go until late, dictated by works in the fields, housekeeping and relaxing break in the kava bar. This is what everyday life looks like in the Amoa valley, on the East coast of New Caledonia.
Centre for Social, Creative Media, University of Goroka - Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
Wêyem, la vallée sacrée
Jean-Louis Devillers
Zona Franca, a rather run-down tourist showcase, is Patagonia’s biggest shopping mall in Chile’s Magallanes Province. The story interlaces the life of Patricia, the mall’s security guard stuck in her sentry box, and of Edgardo, a politically active trucker. When the local inhabitants block the roads to protest against the rising gas prices, the tourist bubble pops. The (...)
Wosera Justice focuses on the work of the eponym Centre in Papua New Guinea. The film shares the experiences of violence suffered by two families and demonstrates how the support of the crisis centre staff contributes to make sure justice prevails and reconciliation finds its way.
Gégé is only twelve but he already lives a tumultuous life, split between his family and his neighbourhood. The teenager is passionate about hip-hop: we follow him overcoming the hardship and the cracks of a highly selective system to take part in a Battle in La Rochelle.
He does not speak much but he is said to be a good fisherman and a hard-working farmer. As anybody knows, Elvis (aka Ataï) would never leave his community.
Kiamou, an elderly from Néouta, near Ponérihouen, looks back full of nostalgia and reflects on her early years. She shares her everyday activities while preparing the pandanus leaves, which will be used for custom mats.
In 2011, « The Place » highlighted the daily routine of youngsters from the Vallée-du-tir neighbourhood, who had gone adrift. Two years later comes a sequel as filmed by two youths living in this typical, working-class district.
Lapan is a film centred on Miriam Potopi, one of the first female magistrates in PNG. While she is charismatic and highly educated, Miriam has to face many challenges.
Jenifer Baing Waiko belongs to the Aztera clan; she is the daughter of a leader and former political figure and her mother comes from New Zealand. She works on the family cocoa farm with her husband and is involved in an NGO. Determined to share her strength and determination to help her country, she decides to go into (...)
Centre for Social & Creative Media, University of Goroka - Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
Never give up
Ruth Ketau
"Never Give Up" is the moving story of Gina Baidam, a community worker from Serimambu, a remote village in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. In the face of the hardship that pregnant women must cope with, Gina’s ambition is to contribute to change people’s mentalities.
Centre for Social & Creative Media, University of Goroka - Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
Taan na kîjiin
Tagadé
In 2013, the storytellers association of Tagadé celebrated its ten-year anniversary with a tales festival. The film recounts the highlights of this event and presents interviews of local and international storytellers.
With exceptionally abundant mineral resources, Papua New Guinea attracts financial interests, which undermine the living conditions of the indigenous population and their environment. The film includes shocking images of the consequences of a liquefied natural gas development project run by Exxon (...)
A former fish vendor in the streets of Goroka, Rita Kare now runs a small restaurant. With her husband Peter, she is determined to achieve their dream of establishing a successful business.
Centre for Social & Creative Media, University of Goroka - Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
Bingo sauvage
Méryl Heneke
In Tindu, on the outskirts of Nouméa, as everywhere across New Caledonia, bingo addicts go regularly to illicit game sessions known among the population as « wild » bingos. The documentary reflects the most shared views on the benefits and drifts of this well-established activity.
In 2013, WWF in New Caledonia, in partnership with ADEME (a public body promoting sustainable development) and the Northern Province launched a program to raise awareness on domestic composting, mulching and natural fertilization techniques. One hundred participants from the tribe of Gööpä expressed interest in learning these simple and eco-friendly (...)
There has never been a bridge spanning the Ouaième River. The only way to cross and reach the other bank is to take a ferry. This survival of the old days is highly symbolic as it is the last one of its kind in New Caledonia.
First, there was Confucius, a Chinese philosopher born in 551 BC, who taught that filial piety ensured social and family harmony. Then, there was Peter and Mary, Japanese/Vietnamese grand-parents. And finally comes Cristèle, a mother of two mixed-blood children, questioning in 2013 how best to transmit this (...)
Starlady is a unique social worker, using creative means to fight against the despair of young Aborigines and their isolation: she teaches make-up, hair dye and hairdressing within communities of remote desert areas in Australia, helping foster greater trust and pride among these people.
Following a tragedy that claimed the lives of five of them in the subdivision of Tuband, a group of youth feels the need to pay their respect to the victims through music while embracing the future.
How to preserve traditional culture is the key question raised by the elders in Tiabet, a community part of the village of Poum. The tentative answer is a chiefdoms’ fair called "Hiiyac" where the elders are able to contribute to the passing down of knowledge and expertise to the children.
Uprooted from metropolitan France when his parents relocated in New Caledonia, Jimmy returned to his home land as an adult with a view to get a sense of what his family background was. Having grown up with all family ties severed, he is left with a creative option: testing cheese produced in the different regions which register on the multiple branches of his family (...)
Anaïs, sixteen, and Sophie, twenty, found themselves at a crossroads in their life: having already left school, should they consider further training, looking for a job or raising children… A group of mothers living nearby provided some counseling and helped them by sharing their own experience.
Malia comes from the little island of Futuna, off Fiji: she loves to share her traditional know how and she holds regular workshops in youth centres on sewing and bark cloth production.
There was an old building in Yaouhé, South of Noumea, which people used to call "the Grey Rock". But for young director Michelle, it was much more than a house in decay soon to be pulled down: it was the "castle" where she used to play as a kid…
« Children of this Land » is an NGO launched on Internet to address challenges and pitfalls experienced by some students. Reïva is the founder of this association: she works hard to achieve her project, an Oceanian-style, university campus.
Let Us Persevere in What We have Resolved before We Forget
Ben Russell
Here we are on the island of Tanna, South of Vanuatu. Strange rites are performed like the raising of an incongruous flag, a ceremony part of the so called "Cargo cult". This prevaricated re-appropriation of Western forces by those ethnic tribes convinced of their magical powers takes place in the heart of an indifferent and luxuriant nature. Yet do not expect analysis or (...)
Red is my soil in Yaté where we grow traditional tubers. Green is our nickel and the smelter under construction. This industrial facility has raised concern among the population, who still questions the future impact of this project on environment.
Mrs Joubert nee Devillers is a hard-working farmer and innovative businesswoman. Her strength, humility and generosity compel to refine the clichés about the "Caldoche" or, to be less derogatory, the people of "Caledonian extraction".
Wimawi is the name of a Kanak mourner’s mask from the Hoot ma Whaap region, belonging to the Whaap clan. After being sold and taken to an unknown land, it goes through various pairs of hands before being sold at auction. Currently exhibited at the Quai Branly Museum, this spirit from the land of the dead tells its story: the story of the Kanak (...)
This is the portrait of a young Kanak student, a voluntary exile, who is in France to go to university. ‘Kanaky my country’ illustrates the difficulties of young Kanaks in France, the cultural divide, family and community isolation and the heavy responsibility of honouring the hopes and expectations of parents and (...)
Ânûû-rû Âboro, avec le concours d’Hânu marip - Kanaky-Nouvelle-Calédonie
L’autre voyage
Caroline Tikouré
Jean-Paul is a traveller. Home again after his army years in France, he is back in the tribal village of Kongouma. There he embarks on a different kind of journey, through alcohol, cannabis and kava. His addiction drags him down.
Ânûû-rû Âboro, avec le concours d’Hânu marip - Kanaky- Nouvelle-Calédonie
Société injuste de consommation
Christophe Soéroastro
Some families living in squatter settlements have been rehoused by SIC (New Caledonia Housing Corporation) in apartments where the rent is too high for their meagre income. A family talks about its daily difficulties in an apartment where examples of bad workmanship abound.
Ânûû-rû Âboro, avec le concours d’Hânu marip - Kanaky- Nouvelle-Calédonie
La monnaie kanak
Lynda Mayat
Benoit Boulet makes Kanak currencies which are giving during ceremonies marking a birth, marriage or bereavement. Exchanged, it bears the word forcefully.
Ânûû-rû Âboro, avec le concours d’Hânu marip - Kanaky- Nouvelle-Calédonie
Mate mo kanaky
Désiré Kabwa Menrempon
4 May 2008, at Gossanah, the survivors, the former prisoners of the Watétë cave at Gossanah, the people of Gossanah and Téouta at last break their silence to relate their version of the tragic events and physical abuse they suffered at the hands of the French army during the tragic events on (...)
Bb LECTURE: les mots, ces beaux arbres qui poussent
Désiré Kabwa Menrempon
In Canala, Marie-Adèle Jorédié built on the ‘Kanak Community Schools’ by starting baby reading workshops. Establishing an early rapport between children and books in the Kanak world of oral tradition is challenging but can help children learn the Xârâcùù language at a young age and develop a taste for (...)