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Va Tapuia
Sacred Spaces
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© New Zealand Film CommissionMalae Lialia'i [...]Va Tapuia | Sacred Spaces
NATIVe 2019
NZL 2009
by: Tusi Tamasese
Malae Lialia'i
© New Zealand Film Commission -
© New Zealand Film CommissionMalae Lialia'i, Lena Rivers [...]Va Tapuia | Sacred Spaces
NATIVe 2019
NZL 2009
by: Tusi Tamasese
Malae Lialia'i, Lena Rivers
© New Zealand Film Commission -
© New Zealand Film CommissionLena Rivers [...]Va Tapuia | Sacred Spaces
NATIVe 2019
NZL 2009
by: Tusi Tamasese
Lena Rivers
© New Zealand Film Commission
Samoan farmer Lui is grieving for his late wife and works tirelessly to be able to afford to tend to her grave. Malia sits by the sea watching her husband’s grave gradually wash away beneath the encroaching tide. When they meet, Lui believes he has found someone with whom he can share his experience of loss. In scenes depicting togetherness and solitude on Upolu island, director Tusi Tamasese unfolds a tender story of two bereaved spouses moving between the sacred spaces of honouring the past and letting go.
by
Tusi Tamasese
New Zealand 2009
Samoan
15’ · Colour
With
Malae Lialia'i (Lui)Lena Rivers (Malia)
Crew
- Written and Directed by
- Tusi Tamasese
- Cinematography
- Leon Narbey
- Montage
- Annie Collins
- Sound Design
- Tim Prebble
- Production Design
- Kirsty Cameron
- Casting
- Nathaniel Lees
- Producer
- Catherine Fitzgerald
Biography
Tusi Tamasese
Born in Samoa in 1975, he studied social sciences at the University of Waikato before graduating from the New Zealand Film & Television School. He went on to take a master’s in screenwriting at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University in Wellington where he now lives with his wife and three children. His film O Le Tulafale (The Orator) screened in the Berlinale’s NATIVe – A Journey into Indigenous Cinema programme in 2013; One Thousand Ropes premiered in Panorama in 2017.
Filmography2009 Va Tapuia (Sacred Spaces) 2011 O Le Tulafale (The Orator) 2013 Venice 70: Future Reloaded 2017 One Thousand Ropes; Panorama
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2019
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