2025 Mother Tongue Film Festival

2024 Finding Balance - We Are Still Here

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The ninth Mother Tongue Film Festival adopted the theme of finding balance, focusing on stories of creating harmony in our communities and among ourselves. The 2024 programming featured twenty-five languages from twelve regions with themes of embracing cultural traditions while adapting to inevitable changes in culture, identity, and belief.


Closing our tenth festival, we have two films that touch us through time. We hope you enjoy these beautifully captured films: Mother’s Tongue and We Are Still Here


El noveno Festival de Cine de la Lengua Materna adoptó el tema de encontrar el equilibrio, centrándose en historias sobre la creación de armonía en nuestras comunidades y entre nosotros. La programación de 2024 incluyó 25 lenguas de 12 territorios con temas relacionados con tradiciones culturales y la adaptación a cambios inevitables en la cultura, la identidad y las creencias.


Para cerrar nuestro décimo festival, tenemos dos películas que nos conmueven a través del tiempo. Esperamos que disfruten de estas películas tan bellamente captadas: Mother's Tongue y We Are Still Here.  

Ten leading Indigenous filmmakers from Australia, Aotearoa (New Zealand), and the South Pacific craft a compellingly original and insightful anthology film in response to the 250th anniversary of a historically celebrated colonizer’s invasion of their lands. 

 

Diez destacados cineastas indígenas de Australia, Aotearoa (Nueva Zelanda) y el Pacífico Sur colaboran en una película de antología convincentemente original y reveladora en respuesta al 250 aniversario de la invasión de sus tierras por parte de un colonizador históricamente celebrado. 

  • Year
    2022
  • Runtime
    90 minutes
  • Language
    English, Maori, Samoan, Turkish, Arrernte
  • Country
    Australia, New Zealand
  • Genre
    Drama
  • Director
    Beck Cole, Samuel Nuggin-Paynter, Danielle McLean, Dena Curtis, Time Worrall, Richard Curtis, Miki Magasiva, Mario Gaoa, Chantelle Burgoyne, Tiraroa Reweti, Tracey Rigney, Renae Maihi
  • Screenwriter
    Miki Magasiva, Tim Worrall, Richard Curtis, Mario Gaoa, Danielle MacLean, Dena Curtis, Chantelle Burgoyne, Samuel Nuggin-Paynter, Tracey Rigney, Renae Maihi, Tiraroa Reweti
  • Producer
    Mitchell Stanley, Toni Stowers, Mia Henry-Teirney
  • Cast
    Clarence John Ryan, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Leonie Whyman
  • Cinematographer
    Eric Murray Lui, Raymond Edwards
  • Editor
    Roland Gallois