Documentaries, Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee
In the small Himalayan country of Bhutan, Happiness Agents are working for the Ministry of Gross National Happiness (GNH). They are collecting data for the Happiness Survey in order to…
Documentaries, Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee, Spotlight on China
Former nightclub dancer Coby Yee decides to get back on stage again after joining the senior dance troupe Grant Avenue Follies. In their heyday, they were all part of the…
Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee, Spotlight on Japan
Kana (Yuumi Kawai), 21-years-old, works as an assistant at a beauty salon. Thinking about the future is too tedious for her and she doesn’t even know what she wants in…
Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee, Southeast Asian Showcase
Set in the early 2000s, in an urban town near Hanoi, DON’T CRY, BUTTERFLY revolves around Tam, a middle-aged housewife, who discovers that her husband is having an affair. Devastated…
Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee, Spotlight on China
The year is 1999, three 18-year-old boys, Wang Zha, Chengyong and Pao Pao, accidentally fall into a toxic kaleidoscope lake. When they dry off, they realize they can travel back…
Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee, Spotlight on Japan
Best friends Yuta and Kou are about to graduate high school in a near-future Tokyo where the threat of a catastrophic earthquake pervades daily life. One night, they pull a…
Documentaries, Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee
The film is an unflinching chronicle of Americans at war with each other. Three right-wing activists—a newly politicized father-to-be in New Jersey, an Air Force veteran organizing conservatives in New…
Centerpiece Presentation, Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee, Made In Hawaii, Pacific Showcase
After years of incarceration, Kainoa De Silva, a wayward Hawaiian man, is paroled. Fully committed to reconnecting with his family, most important is rebuilding a relationship with his son, Jonathan.…
Film For Thought, Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee, Made In Hawaii, Pacific Showcase, YES
Standing Above the Clouds highlights the movement to protect Mauna Kea through the intergenerational stories of women in three Native Hawaiian families as they stand for the sacred mountain. The…
Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee, Panorama
A gently absurdist comedy from writer-director Matthew Rankin that was an unexpected hit at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. In a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg,…
Film For Thought, Indigenous Lens, Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee
YINTAH, meaning “land” in the Wet’suwet’en language, tells the story of an Indigenous nation’s fight for sovereignty as they resist the construction of multiple oil and fracked-gas pipelines across their…
Documentaries, Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee
The case is named after plaintiff Amanda Zurawski, who was denied an emergency abortion and went into septic shock, having to spend three days in the ICU. As a result…