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.
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?
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.
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.
For centuries, rice farmers on the island of Bali have taken great care not to offend Dewi Danu, the water goddess who dwells in the crater lake near the peak of Batur volcano. Through an analysis of ritual, resource management practices (planting schedules, irrigation vs. conservation, etc) and social organization, anthropologist Steve Lansing and ecologist James Kremer discover the intricacy and sustainability of this ancient water management agricultural system.
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.
Фильм повествует о неизведанных просторах океана, такого близкого нам, но столь еще скрытого от нашего познания. Красоту морских панорам дополнит музыка Стинга и голос несравненной Мерил Стрип.
A documentary short on the importance of mopeds to the local population on the Koster Islands on the west coast of Sweden.
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.
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.
Хэй-Вон — красивая тридцатилетняя женщина, которая работает в одном из банков Сеула. Она ведет успешную жизнь делового человека, пока не становится свидетельницей покушения на убийство, что серьезно осложняет ее жизнь. Когда все валится из рук, она решает отправиться в отпуск на уединенный остров. Однажды здесь она навещала своих родственников и подружилась с девушкой по имени Бок-Нам. Бок-Нам много раз писала ей с просьбой навестить ее, но Хэй-Вон ни разу не ответила на ее письма. Приехав на остров, Хэй-Вон видит, что все жители острова обращаются с Бок-Нам, как с рабыней. Бок-Нам — единственная молодая женщина на острове, и она — игрушка в руках мужчин и прислуга для женщин. Измученная жестоким обращением, она много раз предпринимала попытку побега, но каждый раз ее возвращали на остров. И теперь она умоляет Хэй-Вон о помощи.
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.
Действие происходит 2000 лет назад, в островах Тихого океана. Дочка вождя, 14-летняя мечтательница Моана Ваялики, чтобы найти свою семью, отправляется в путешествие по океану в поисках сказочного острова с её героем полубогом-трикстером Мауи, и вместе им предстоит переплыть океан, встречая по пути огромных морских существ.
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.
В 1801 году, после того, как на трон взошел новый король, ученый Чон Як Чон, служивший покойному королю, был сослан на остров Хеук-сан. Там он знакомится с Чан-дэ, молодым рыбаком, который является большим поклонником конфуцианства и обладает обширными знаниями о море.
