HIFF: THE CIGARETTE SURFBOARD

Saturday November 9 at 2:30pm
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HAWAI‘I PREMIERE
Documentary 2024 | USA | 93 minutes

Director: Ben Judkins

Yes, the titular surfboard in question was a prototype invented by Taylor Lane back in 2017 made up mostly of thousands of carelessly discarded cigarette butt filters for a creators contest cosponsored by Jack Johnson’s Surfrider Foundation. What happened to that winning entry makes up the bulk of this fascinating documentary as Tate continues to use the items of pollution as inspiration and statement to make a lighter, functional surfboard with the help of professional shapers and surfers.

HIFF: TINĀ (MOTHER)

Saturday November 9 at 5:00pm
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2024 | New Zealand/Aotearoa | 124 minutes
English, Samoan w/English Subtitles
Director: Miki Magasiva

Samoan actor Anapela Polata’ivao is brilliant in this nuanced drama that’s the directorial debut of Miki Magavisa. A well-respected gifted vocal coach in her community, Mareta finds herself at a crossroads, needing to find work three years after the tragic death of her daughter, a death that she’s still processing. She goes out of her comfort zone to become a substitute teacher at an elite, all-white private school and forms a choir that begins her healing as a matriarch and caregiver.

 

 

 

HIFF: MOLOKAʻI BOUND

Saturday November 9 at 7:30pm
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2024 | USA | 112 minutes

Director: Alika Tengan
Screenwriters: Alika Tengan
Cast: Holden Mandrial-Santos, Achilles Holt, Kawika Kahiapo, Kamalani Kapeliela, Kalena Charlene, ʻĀina Paikai, Hale Natoa

After years of incarceration, Kainoa De Silva, a wayward Hawaiian man, is released on parole and committed to reconnecting with his family. Most important to Kainoa is rebuilding a relationship with his adolescent son, Jonathan. But acclimating to a normal life in Hawai‘i is harder than it seems. While working to get back on his own feet, Kainoa must contend with pressures from old friends and relatives. In response he tends to do all the wrong things for the right reasons. In trying to prove himself worthy of his family and his native heritage, Kainoa’s journey is a story of both reconciliation and redemption.

 

HIFF: MADE IN HAWAI‘I SHORTS PROGRAM #1: MANIFESTING MANA

Sunday November 10 at 12:00pm
Doors, Box Office and Concessions open at 11:30am

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DECODING ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE; KAI HALI‘A (SEA OF MEMORY); KŪKINI; MANIFESTO [FOR CONCRETE POETRY]; THE QUEEN’S FLOWERS; WOVEN

 

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MADE IN HAWAI‘I SHORTS PROGRAM #2: NARRATIVE PLENITUDE

Sunday November 10 at 2:00pm
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HULI; I’M TRYING MY BEST RIGHT NOW; LAST LIGHT; MĀNOA VALLEY; TWO BREATHS; VICTORIA

 

 

 

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HIFF: SHAKA, A STORY OF ALOHA

Sunday November 10 at 4:30pm 
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HAWAI‘I PREMIERE
Made In Hawai‘i | 2024 | 80 minutes
Director: Alexander Bocchieri

The Lāʻie community figures large in this documentary that tries to find the origins of the state’s “Swiss army knife” of good-natured gestures. The latter part of the documentary spends a good deal of its time relating the fascinating story of community leader Tutu Hamana Kalili back in the 1910s that may have started it all.

Music For Mushrooms

 

Friday November 15th @ 7:00pm
Doors, Box Office and Concessions open at 6:30pm

Documentary | Not Rated
83 Minutes

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Director: Krishna Trevor Oswalt

Synopsis: Music for Mushrooms is a narrative documentary highlighting the personal journey of shamanistic musician and filmmaker East Forest (Krishna-Trevor Oswalt) – a collaborator of the late Ram Dass – whose bold experiments pair music with guided psychedelic experiences to create spaces of healing for a fractured world.

The film captures East Forest as he discovers a practice of guided ceremonial concerts that offer participants an immersive environment to confront their pain and fears, fostering hope, and moving them to re-engage with their own true north.

Weaving together interviews and conversations with artists, academics, and cultural experts in the fields of psychedelics, science, music and philosophy – voices like Ram Dass, Xochitl Ashe, Hanifo Nayo Washington, Spring Washam, Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris, Jon Hopkins, Peter Broderick, ANNA, and more – the film explores first hand experiences, wisdom traditions, and data-backed evidence of how these timeless tools impact the human psyche, nervous system, and more.

 

 

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Sunday November 17th @ 2:30pm
Doors, Box Office and Concessions open at 2:00pm

Fantasy, Adventure, Family, Mystery | 146 min
Rated PG-13

Join us this Fall as we head back to Hogwarts! We are showing all 8 Harry Potter movies now through November.

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Directed by David Yates
Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson

Synopsis: As Harry, Ron and Hermione race against time and evil to destroy the Horcruxes, they uncover the existence of the three most powerful objects in the wizarding world: the Deathly Hallows.