The Inaugural Fijian
Language Week 2013 has begun and there are Fijian Language films that will be featured. Below is the screening venues of the movies in Wellington.
Date &
Time
|
Film
|
Description
|
Venue
|
Charge
|
Monday
7thOctober:
7.30pm
|
“LAKOVI”
(2010)
Language:
100% Fijian
|
A story
about the coming together of two Fijian families and the changing
attitudes & lifestyles associated with city living.
|
Wesley
Church New Hall
75
Taranaki St
Wellington
|
FREE
|
Wednesday
9th October:
7.00pm
|
“STRUGGLING FOR A BETTER LIVING:
Squatters in Fiji”
(2007)
Languages: English, Fijian & Hindi with subtitles
|
A thought-provoking film about
Fiji’s growing squatter population, who live in over 182 informal or
“squatter” settlements
|
New
Zealand Film Archive
84
Taranaki Street, Wellington
Ph:
384
7647 |
$6
|
FIJI
DAYDouble Feature
Thursday
10THOctober:
6.00pm
|
Movie
1:
“IN THE NAME OF GROWTH” (2001)
Languages: English & Fijian with subtitles
Movie
2:
“TWO MEN OF FIJI” (1959)
Rated G
(General)
Languages: as above
|
1) Nominated for an
international award, set in the old capital of Levuka on the island of
Ovalau. It tells a moving story of the lives Fijian
women cannery workers, and highlights the human costs of economic
development.
2) A film about two
young men who move from Lau to Suva. Issues of
representation, colonialism and portrayals of culture all bubble under
the surface in this story.
|
Icon
Room,
Te Papa
Museum of NZ
Ph: 381
7000
|
Adults
$15
Children
FREE
|
Saturday
12thOctober:
7.00pm
|
“COMPASSIONATE EXILE” (1998)
Languages: English & Fijian with subtitles
“A moving, poignant tribute to an important but
largely forgotten part of Pacific History.”
- Dr Teresia Teaiwa, Victoria University of
Wellington
|
A rare and moving film that
revisitsthe life of those exiled on the island of
Makogai, in Fiji – the only island leprosarium which existed in the South
Pacific. Through the stories of four former patients, archival imagery
and period letters, these "voices" remember the lives of those
afflicted and cast off from their societies around the Pacific. Their
story is a heroic tale of strength and survival.
|
New
Zealand Film Archive
84
Taranaki Street, Wellington
Ph:
384
7647 |
$6
|
