Standing on Sacred Ground (2013) Duration: 3H48M Description: Indigenous people resist government mega-projects, consumer culture, competing religions, resource extraction and climate change in this four-part documentary series. In the US and around the world, native communities share ecolog….. Trailer ↗ United States Australia Canada Ethiopia Papua New Guinea 2013 Documentary History News
Marabe (1978) Duration: 1H45M Description: Two sons of Marabe, a village councilor, borrow money to finance an ill-fated trip to Port Moresby to seek their fortunes. One son is killed and the other corrupted by the demoralizing effects of life in the city. Marabe is forced….. Trailer ↗ Papua New Guinea 1978 Drama
Ileksen (1978) Duration: 56M Description: A documentary covering the first elections in the young history of Papua New Guinea… Trailer ↗ Papua New Guinea Australia 1978 Documentary
The Red Bowmen (1978) Duration: 58M Description: Every year, a ritual known as ida is performed by the Umeda people, who inhabit the dense primary forest of the Waina-Sawanda district of West Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Ida, the central social and cultural drama of the Umeda, is a ….. Trailer ↗ Papua New Guinea 1978 […]
Yumi Yet (1975) Duration: 54M Description: A portrait of Papua New Guinea, a society clutched by Australian colonialism and hovering uneasily between its head-hunting past and Western civilization, at the time of the nation’s independence festivities… Trailer ↗ Papua New Guinea Australia 1975 Documentary
Savage Memory (2011) Duration: 1H20M Description: Founding father of Anthropology, Bronislaw Malinowski’s work raises powerful and disturbing questions today. This is a look at his legacy and the imprints it has made on the generations that followed… Trailer ↗ United States Australia Papua New Guinea Poland United Kingdom 2011 Documentary Biography Drama
Trobriand Cricket (1975) Duration: 53M Description: A documentary on how Papua New Guinea’s have modified and incorporated their culture in the British game of Cricket… Trailer ↗ Papua New Guinea United Kingdom Australia 1975 Documentary Sport
I Am a Girl (2013) Duration: 1H28M Description: Six girls coming of age, ready to become something extraordinary… Trailer ↗ Australia United States Papua New Guinea Cameroon Cambodia 2013 Documentary Biography
Tinpis Run (1991) Duration: 1H34M Description: “Papa”, one of the chiefs of a tribe in the highlands, is taxi driver of a “Tinpis”, a collective bush-taxi. Saved from an accident by Naaki, a young man from the city, he offers him his daughter in thanks. Johanna and Naaki, howe….. Trailer ↗ France Belgium Papua New […]
Tukana – husat i asua (1984) Duration: 2H Description: Tells the story of a university drop out who returns to his village in Buka Passage, Bougainville. He drifts into rootlessness among bad companions, becoming progressively alienated from his parents and village life, with tragic r….. Trailer ↗ Papua New Guinea 1984 Comedy Drama
Black Harvest (1992) Duration: 1H30M Description: Joe Leahy is the half-caste son of one of the first explorers of the Papua New Guinean interior. His relations with the local Ganiga tribe who work his coffee plantation on their land are difficult at times. However he has success….. Trailer ↗ Australia Papua New Guinea France United […]
Mr. Pip (2012) Duration: 1H56M Description: As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village… Trailer ↗ Papua New Guinea Australia New Zealand 2012 […]