En la antigua Polinesia, cuando una terrible maldición del semidiós Maui llega a la isla de Moana, ella responde al llamado del océano para buscar al semidiós y arreglar las cosas.
Hae-Won es una mujer de 30 años que trabaja en un banco de la ciudad de Seúl, llevando una vida muy ocupada. Un día todo se tuerce cuando es testigo de un intento de asesinato, y al mismo tiempo, las cosas en el trabajo se le complican, viéndose obligada a tomarse unas vacaciones para desconectar. Hae-Won se dirigirá a Moodo, una pequeña isla donde vivía con sus abuelos de pequeña. Allí también vive una chica llamada Kim Bok-Nam, amiga de la infancia. Cuando llega a la isla, Hae-Won se sorprende de ver cómo todos tratan a Bok-Nam como a una esclava, la única mujer joven del lugar y el único juguete para los hombres de la isla. Maltrecha por todos los abusos, Bok-Nam ha intentado huir de la isla varias veces sin éxito, y ahora, pide a Hae-Won que la ayude a escapar de allí, aunque ésta prefiere no involucrarse en la difícil situación de su amiga.
The Living Sea celebrates the beauty and power of the ocean as it explores our relationship with this complex and fragile environment. Using beautiful images of unspoiled healthy waters, The Living Sea offers hope for recovery engendered by productive scientific efforts. Oceanographers studying humpback whales, jellyfish, and deep-sea life show us that the more we understand the ocean and its inhabitants, the more we will know how to protect them. The film also highlights the Central Pacific islands of Palau, one of the most spectacular underwater habitats in the world, to show the beauty and potential of a healthy ocean.
En 1801 un nuevo rey decide exiliar a una isla a un erudito en la cual conoce a un joven pescador admirador del confucianismo y de gran conocimiento sobre el mar. Fascinado, el erudito decide escribir un libro sobre el mar con la ayuda del pescador.
A look at the everyday life of Tahitian natives.
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 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.
An overview of the people, lifestyle, and traditions of Samoa, as well tourism and other economic changes on the Samoan islands.
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?
A documentary short on the importance of mopeds to the local population on the Koster Islands on the west coast of Sweden.
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.
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.
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.