A mysterious scavenger hunt challenges Lei and Nate to potentially discover why their missing friend, Keo, has been gone for the past few months. While their hunt is a journey of self-discovery, hope, and resilience, will that be enough to reach their goal… to finally see Keo and find closure?
Three Gen Z teens discuss their experiences with queer identity over the course of the pandemic, and what this means for us as a generation moving forward.
An elderly Japanese American man reflects upon his childhood during wartime Hawai’i in this film about anti-Asian prejudice and human connection.
Red attempts to climb to the top of a mountain she used to often visit with her sibling, Blue, and falls. Blue finds her, and brings her to the mountain peak, and they are reunited. Student filmmaker, Elizabeth Hope, is a Tlingit and Inupiaq artist in 8th grade who primarily focuses on the literary and …
See how students of GenZ will use their experience from the pandemic to move forward together.
This short film was created during the lockdown in the 4th quarter of last school year by students from the media programs at Kealakehe Intermediate School in Kona and Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle School on Kaua’i. This was a true collaborative project by 17 middle school students who worked in teams for about 5 weeks to …
With aloha, HIFF acknowledges its occupation of ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands of the Native Hawaiian people, the Kānaka Maoli.
With gratitude, we honor the ʻāina itself and the generations who steward it.