In the 2022 edition of HIFF’s SPOTLIGHT ON TAIWAN, presented by the Ministry of Culture ROC and Taiwan Academy in Los Angeles, the Festival is honored to present four feature films and four short films, going back to basics of presenting the breath of unique stories from the island nation that are both familiar and […]
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HIFF42 and Bishop Museum are partnering to present two new Hawaiian feature films “under the stars” at the historic museum’s signature event venue, the Great Lawn, on November 3rd and 4th. These HIFF42 screenings at Bishop Museum are made possible with support from Engaging The Senses Foundation. On Thursday, November 3rd, HIFF screens THE WIND
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Aside from exhibiting films from all over the world, HIFF also has a rich offering of panels and workshops called HIFF TALK STORY. Better yet, they’re all FREE. Are you an active member of the local film industry or just a film fan? Are you a consumer of all things content and want to learn
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With HIFF42 a mere week away, we will be highlighting the various spotlights of this year’s Festival. The HIFF programmers are very excited to present a stellar lineup of Queer cinema from across the globe, with two films representing their respective country’s official entry for the Oscar International Feature category, a sapphic hentai mokumentary, and
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The Hawai‘i International Film Festival (HIFF) presented by Halekulani is thrilled to announce that it has been approved by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a qualifying festival for the Short Film Awards category. Recipients of HIFF’s Best Short Film Award and HIFF’s Best Made in Hawai’i Short Film Award are now
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Local filmmaker Mike May with Maurice Krafft at lava lake One of the buzziest films at this year’s HIFF Spring Showcase is the Sundance winning documentary FIRE OF LOVE from director Sara Dosa. The film follows the lives and careers of daring French Volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft who traveled across the globe for years
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>>SUBMIT YOUR FILM HERE<< The 42nd Annual Hawai‘i International Film Festival Announces Film Submission Deadlines for 2022 Submissions open on February 11th, 2022 for all Narrative Feature, Documentary Feature, Narrative Short, Documentary Short, Episodic (Series), Pacific Islander Showcase Features, Pacific Islander Showcase Shorts, Made in Hawai‘i Features, Made in Hawai‘i Shorts, XR Showcase, and Hawai‘i
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HIFF TALKS: The Official Podcast of the Hawai‘i International Film Festival is recorded by and for the HIFF community, we go a little beyond the normal Q&A with filmmakers on their works and interests. Starting with intention, our talks inevitably go into unexpected, spontaneous directions. Such is the life of building community with creatives with
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Alika Tengan’s Every Day in Kaimukī (2022) is the first narrative feature by a Kānaka Maoli filmmaker to premiere at Sundance, but it arrives as part of a cohort of similarly unconventional features from Hawaiʻi, including Christopher Makoto Yogi’s August at Akiko’s (2018) and I Was a Simple Man (2021), and Christopher Kahunahana’s Waikiki (2020).
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With aloha, HIFF acknowledges its occupation of ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands of the Indigenous Hawaiian people, the Kānaka Maoli.
With gratitude, we honor the ʻāina itself and the generations who steward it.