Papua New Guinea Movies

  • 1987
    Women of Papua New Guinea: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

    Women of Papua New Guinea: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

    Women of Papua New Guinea: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

    01987HD

    This film reveals the rich tribal heritage of women in New Guinea by examining ancient customs and beliefs. It also reveals a modern woman challengin...

    Women of Papua New Guinea: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
  • 2011
    Unity Through Culture

    Unity Through Culture

    Unity Through Culture

    02011HD

    Soanin Kilangit is determined to unite the people and attract international tourism through the revival of culture on Baluan Island in the South Pacif...

    Unity Through Culture
  • 2006
    Picking up the Pieces: Bougainville

    Picking up the Pieces: Bougainville

    Picking up the Pieces: Bougainville

    02006HD

    A story that uncovers the insanity of the ten years of violence which followed, and the terrible lasting impact of war on women, children and communit...

    Picking up the Pieces: Bougainville
  • 1986
    Quarantine

    Quarantine

    Quarantine

    01986HD

    The aim of this film was to develop awareness of the dangers of infectious disease. Agriculture was beginning to rapidly intensify when overland refug...

    Quarantine
  • 1970
    Cry of Nukumanu

    Cry of Nukumanu

    Cry of Nukumanu

    01970HD

    A study of life on remote Nukumanu Atoll, a Polynesian outlier of Papua New Guinea. Traditional culture has survived, but over-population and extensiv...

    Cry of Nukumanu
  • 1989
    Breaking the Bush

    Breaking the Bush

    Breaking the Bush

    01989HD

    Examines the destruction, waste, profiteering and corruption that is stripping Papua New Guinea of its forest resources. Interviews with villagers rev...

    Breaking the Bush
  • 1990
    The Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea

    The Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea

    The Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea

    01990HD

    The Trobriand Islands lie off the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea. The island society has a complex balance of male authority and female wealth. Magic...

    The Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea
  • 1952
    The Trobriand Islanders

    The Trobriand Islanders

    The Trobriand Islanders

    01952HD

    During his field work in the region of Omarakana, H.A.Powell filmed various sequences from which the film is assembled. In spite of the technical hand...

    The Trobriand Islanders
  • 1992
    Comment nous fabriquons le sel

    Comment nous fabriquons le sel

    Comment nous fabriquons le sel

    01992HD

    In the Baruya tribe on the highlands of Papua, far from the sea, men make vegetable salt and pass on this knowledge from father to son. But this salt...

    Comment nous fabriquons le sel
  • 1984
    The Metal Foundry

    The Metal Foundry

    The Metal Foundry

    01984HD

    A Lae is a little metal foundry whose owner has gone back to Australia and which the workers have taken over, with some help from the provincial gover...

    The Metal Foundry
  • 1984
    Tupela Tingting

    Tupela Tingting

    Tupela Tingting

    01984HD

    A new water pump has been proposed by a local firm. The film traces the parallel portraits of a technician-demonstrator of the new pump and that of a...

    Tupela Tingting
  • 2001
    Breaking Bows and Arrows

    Breaking Bows and Arrows

    Breaking Bows and Arrows

    02001HD

    On the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, victims and perpetrators are coming together in traditionally based reconciliation ceremonies after...

    Breaking Bows and Arrows
  • 2000
    Bridewealth for a Goddess

    Bridewealth for a Goddess

    Bridewealth for a Goddess

    02000HD

    The film documents the last performance of the ritual for the fertility goddess Amb Kor, in the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. Shot o...

    Bridewealth for a Goddess
  • 2004
    Betelnut Bisnis

    Betelnut Bisnis

    Betelnut Bisnis

    02004HD

    In the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, a grassroots family makes a precarious living by trading in betelnut, one of the world's most widely used narcot...

    Betelnut Bisnis
  • 1980
    Malangan Labadama: A Tribute to Buk-Buk

    Malangan Labadama: A Tribute to Buk-Buk

    Malangan Labadama: A Tribute to Buk-Buk

    01980HD

    For the people of Mandak region, New Ireland,the most dramatic and complex ceremonial events are those surrounding death. The creation and presentatio...

    Malangan Labadama: A Tribute to Buk-Buk
  • 2019
    I'm Moshanty. Do You Love Me?

    I'm Moshanty. Do You Love Me?

    I'm Moshanty. Do You Love Me?

    02019HD

    I'm Moshanty. Do You Love Me? is a musical profile of the late South Pacific recording artist and transgender activist Moses "Moshanty" Tau and member...

    I'm Moshanty. Do You Love Me?