Vakaraitaka
This four-part cinematic poem weaves together multiple layers of beauty, pain, colonialism, climate change culture, and loss.
Co-Directors Fenton Bose Lutunatabua, DJ Lutunatabua, and Thelma Lutunatabua scheduled to attend.
- Director: Fenton Lutunatabua (Fijian)
- Principal Cast: Alisi Rabukawaqa, Kautea Tora, Jed Taylor, Henry Steele
- Premiere Status: North American
- Country: Fiji
- Year: 2024
- Running Time: 15 min.
- Producer: Fenton Lutunatabua
- Screenplay: Fenton Lutunatabua
- Cinematographers: Only Ideas Studios
- Editors: Alipate Laveti
- Music: Micah Garrido
- Website: Official Film Website
- Language: English, Fijian
This film is playing as a part of Moving Poetry: Indigenous Stories
This selection of short, Indigenous-made films exemplifies the poetic language of the body as memory, cultural healing, and relationship to the natural world.
