La giovane Vaiana ha un'attitudine al prossimo e un'attrazione per il mare che non sfuggono agli dei. Radiosa e felice cresce sotto l'ala del padre, capo del villaggio, e lo sguardo della nonna che favorisce la sua inclinazione al viaggio rivelandole un segreto: i Maori sono stati grandi marinai. Viaggiatori alla scoperta delle isole del Pacifico, da secoli hanno smesso di viaggiare e nessuno sa perché. Cresciuta tra il padre che sogna per lei una vita stanziale e una nonna che nutre la sua fantasia, Vaiana ha deciso di prendere in mano il timone del proprio destino e di navigare in mare, oltre la barriera corallina, limite impostole. Il mondo intorno intanto sta misteriosamente morendo. Accompagnata da un galletto disfunzionale, investita paladina dall'Oceano e 'assistita' da un semidio egotico e naufragato, Vaiana affronterà un viaggio epico per recuperare l'identità dei suoi avi e regalare al mondo una nuova primavera.

Hae-won è una giovane e bella donna single che lavora in una banca a Seul cui un giorno accade di assistere a un tentato omicidio. Nello stesso momento la sua vita professionale si complica ed è costretto a prendere un periodo di vacanza. Si reca così a Moodo, un'isoletta depressa dove ha un'amica, Bok-nam, che non vede da tempo. Giunta là si accorge con sbalordimento del trattamento che viene riservato alla sua amica. Essendo praticamente l'unica ragazza giovane dell'isola, è l'oggetto sessuale degli uomini e una specie di mano d'opera gratuita per le donne. Bok-nam supplica l'amica di aiutarla a scappare, ma Hae-won ha paura di restare coinvolta in complicazioni e tenta di tenersi fuori.

In 1801, after a new king ascended the throne, a scholar Jeong Yak-jeon who served the late king is exiled to Heuk-san Island. There he meets Chang-dae, a young fisherman who is a huge admirer of Confucianism and has a wide knowledge about the sea.

A famous photographer, Jo Ellen Hathaway, has been being stalked for quite some time. She returns to the island she grew up on in an effort to get away from the stalker and get some well-needed relaxation time. On the island, she meets up with old friends and boyfriends and works on relationships with her family. However, she can't shake the feeling that she's still being watched.

Siniša Mesjak, an arrogant and ambitious politician on the rise, finds himself in the middle of a scandal. To hide him from the public, the president appoints him as the commissioner of Croatian government on the furthest settled island Trečić, where he is tasked with the organization of local elections. The previous seven commissioners haven't succeeded.

An Blascaod Mór, Great Blasket Island, is an islet off the southwest coast of the Irish mainland. For years, a declining population and treacherous waters had made life there risky. In 1953, the Irish government evacuated the 22 remaining residents of An Blascaod Mór to the nearby village of Dún Chaoin. This documentary examines aspects of the island's history and literary legacy, and features interviews with former islanders.

The Living Sea è un documentario sugli oceani del mondo,il cui scopo è aumentare la sensibilità tra i popoli di tutto il mondo per il fantastico, affascinante, potente, produttivo, ma alla fine fragile ambiente marino. Attraverso l'uso emozionante di tecnologia marina, questa vasta frontiera scientifica sarà esplorata dalle persone che stanno costruendo una sana convivenza con gli oceani della Terra.

History threatens to destroy the friendship between Hiroshi and Adel whose countries were once enemies. Will Adel forget their quarrel when Hiroshi is in danger?

On an island in the Stockholm archipelago lives a man named Albin who has fallen in love with the new school teacher named Eva. Because of the Winter War the island is isolated and smuggling is rampant, the leader of this operation is named Fritjof and he is also interested in Eva.

A look at the everyday life of Tahitian natives.

A documentary short on the importance of mopeds to the local population on the Koster Islands on the west coast of Sweden.

An overview of the people, lifestyle, and traditions of Samoa, as well tourism and other economic changes on the Samoan islands.

The year is 1891. The director of MoDo, Frans Kempe, is about to build the largest and most modern sawmill in Europe and a complete ideal society after his own mind. The place he chooses is Norrbyskär, some skerries in the Baltic Sea outside the cost of Västerbotten in northern Sweden.

The experimental society with it's 1500 inhabitants and the large sawmill will live for almost 60 years.

The film is taken from a comedy theatrical play and it shows the customs of the traditional society in Seychelles.

One day, detective Incheol (Jung Chan) visits Wido. The island is high with hopes for redevelopment as it has been designated as a cultural tourism trial site. Incheol was dispatched to the island to determine the cause of Jong-gu's death who is thought to have been killed in a landslide. But from the first day of his arrival, the islanders' behavior struck Incheol as strange. They wanted him to quietly conclude the case and leave. Incheol, who would even accept dirty money to treat his wife's illness, decides to leave. That night, another case of suicide takes place and Incheol could feel that the residents' bizarre behavior and the series of accidents are not irrelevant. Now, Incheol's investigation reveals the dirty truth the islanders have been hiding.

Five Guamanians interviewed in the early 2000s recall the Japanese bombing of Guam on 7 December 1941, and the years of food shortages, abuses, and other hardships that followed. They describe their childhood lives before, during, and after the island's occupation by Japanese soldiers.

Will Cubans be able to safeguard their heritage of pristine Nature and preserved ecological treasures under this new era, as they are facing the combined pressure of money and tourism? What policies can be implemented to maintain the island’s spectacular wilderness?

In hand-built, double-hulled canoes sixty feet long, the ancestors of today's Polynesians sailed vast distances using only the waves, the stars, and the flights of birds to navigate. Anthropologist Sanford Low visits the Caroline Islands of Micronesia to meet Mau Piailug, the last navigator initiated on his island and one of few men still practicing this once-essential art. He demonstrates his skill by sailing a replica canoe 2500 miles from Hawaii to Tahiti with no modern navigational instruments.