2025 Mother Tongue Film Festival

2018 Opening The Call - Out of State

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The 2018 Mother Tongue Film Festival featured the first open call for films, receiving ninety-five submissions. The final selection of films featured twenty-nine languages from fourteen regions, with nearly every film shown showcasing a different mother tongue. Here are two films that spoke to us in 2018: Aviliaq: Entwined and Out of State


El Festival de Cine de la Lengua Materna realizó su primera convocatoria abierta de películas en 2018 y recibió 95 postulaciones. La selección final de películas incluyó 29 idiomas de 14 regiones, y casi todas las películas proyectadas mostraban una lengua materna diferente.


A continuación, presentamos dos de nuestras películas favoritas presentadas en 2018: Aviliaq: Entwined y Out of State.  

Shipped thousands of miles away from the tropical islands of Hawai‘i to a private prison in the Arizona desert, two Native Hawaiians, David and Hale, discover their traditions from a fellow inmate serving a life sentence. It is from this unlikely setting that the two men finish their terms and return to Hawaiʻi, hoping for a fresh start. Eager to prove to themselves and to their families that this experience has changed them forever, David and Hale struggle with the hurdles of life as formerly incarcerated men, asking the question: can you really go home again?   


David y Hale, dos nativos hawaianos, son enviados a una prisión privada en el desierto de Arizona, a miles de kilómetros de las islas tropicales de Hawái. En este lugar, descubren sus tradiciones gracias a un compañero de prisión que cumple cadena perpetua. En este difícil escenario los dos hombres terminan sus condenas y regresan a Hawái con la esperanza de empezar de nuevo. Ansiosos por demostrarse a sí mismos y a sus familias que esta experiencia los ha transformado para siempre, David y Hale luchan con los obstáculos de la vida como expresidiarios mientras se preguntan: ¿realmente se puede volver a casa? 

  • Year
    2017
  • Runtime
    82 minutes
  • Language
    English, ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi
  • Country
    Hawai'i
  • Genre
    Documentary
  • Director
    Ciara Lacy
  • Producer
    Beau Bassett
  • Executive Producer
    Terry Leonard, Jessie Creel
  • Co-Producer
    Jeff Consiglio
  • Cinematographer
    Chapin Hall
  • Editor
    Jeff Consiglio, Sara Booth, Jason Zeldes
  • Composer
    Tyler Strickland
  • Music
    Jonathan Zalben