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- Vincent Greby is a French artist who divides his life between Kathmandu and Seoul. While passing through his family home in Gournay, he received a visit from his friend Jonathan Bougard who was returning from Polynesia. They haven't been seen for twenty years. Vincent presents him with some Putali from the Jajarkot district, ex votos of primitive Himalayan art, as well as a large African mask signed Grégoire Massengo, and then some of the paintings which made him known in Asia.
- In the 1980s almost no one was tattooed in Polynesia. With the cultural renaissance in general, and also political demands at different levels, tattooing has once again become a form of expression and also a certain attitude, sometimes described as maohitude. Today we no longer live in traditional societies. Tavana Salmon tattoos Chimé when he was fourteen years old. Chimé liked drawing and painting, and in addition his cousin Laurent Purotu began to learn engraving and sculpture at the arts and crafts center. And every time he left school, he showed his cousin what he had learned. Chimé introduces himself as Tahua Tatau. A tattoo artist from Moorea, he has been living in Europe for over twenty years. Today his salon is located in Bordeaux. Roonui Anania, Chimé and Purotu started tattooing themselves and tattooing in the street, by snatch, that means with sewing needles attached to match sticks, then electric razors. Indian ink in a beer cap and off we went. Then Tavana Salmon brought back the first pig tooth combs, which they were not able to use for long due to hygiene. Impossible to sterilize. We had to go back to the electric razor, look for solutions. This film tells the story of the rebirth of Polynesian tattooing, then its expansion, told by the three greatest masters of Polynesian tattooing.
- When the name Hikueru is mentioned, all the other surrounding islands shudder with fear. Because in the story, when someone from Hikueru says anything it comes true. In Hikueru speech is sacred. Tapu was born in Hikueru. Until the age of nine, he grew up with his grandfather in Reka Reka. There is no better place in the universe than the Tuamotus, Tapu tells us. Tapu Bonnet descends from the great names of French Polynesia. He can recite his genealogy over several centuries. Forty years ago he was one of the seeds, one of those who renovated and restored this culture which was prohibited: walking on fire, tattooing... Incredible the flowering that there has been since that time of eighties.
- Better known as Sampaguita Jay, Jade is one of the black and gray tattoo specialists in France. With the Mark of the Four Wawes Tribe collective, she helps popularize traditional Filipino tattooing, where she is from. In Moorea in French Polynesia she experienced one of the happiest days of her life during the Tatau i Moorea festival.
- Unanimously considered the greatest choreographer Polynesia has known, Coco Hotahota is a dance master. He is one of the rare group leaders, if not the only one, to actually take care of the entire production chain of a show, whether it is writing the theme, writing the songs, composing. , costume creation, choreography. In 1962 he created his troupe, Te Maeva, which in 55 years of existence will have been the most successful troupe in the history of Heiva i Tahiti, and also the largest troupe in terms of number, more than 150 dancers in peak, in the 80s. Today we have the impression that Coco, who has long represented modernity, has become a bit of a reference for tradition. It's the whole contradiction of the character that we also admire for that. This film is the sequel to the film Coco Hotahota Te Maeva. It chronicles the exchanges between Coco Hotahota and the San Francisco troupe Hui Tarava, from the last Farereiraa organized in Tahiti to the first Farereiraa in San Francisco. A film dedicated to the memory of Coco Hotahota, the major choreographer of Tahitian dance.
- Every spring the Parisian Asian community and cosplayers meet at the Parc de Sceaux to celebrate the ephemeral flowering of the 144 sakuras, the pink cherry trees of Japan, in the northern grove of the estate. Hanami means looking at flowers in Japanese. In 2023 the theme chosen for the festivities was manga.
- Tatak ng apat na alon tribe, is better known in English as Mark of the four wawes tribe. Made up of just over 150 members, this collective based in Los Angeles popularizes traditional Filipino tattooing around the world. At its head for more than twenty years, we find the famous artist Elle Festin and his wife, Zelle Festin.
- JR show on November 12, 2023 on the facade of the Palais Garnier. Chiroptera in the cave. Darkness holds the grace of the light Choreography by Damien Jalet for 143 dancers. Music by Thomas Banglater. Soloist Amandine Albisson. Thank you JR for so much inspiring creativity.
- As elsewhere in Polynesia where there is not much for young people, they spend a lot of time on the side of the road. But they drink less there than elsewhere and don't smoke at all. In Tahiti, Vaininiore has the reputation of being a red-light district. However, while walking there, we will meet young people full of joie de vivre, smiling, a little rowdy... They spend their days playing football on the field, and at five o'clock every evening they have training with Hentz Tinomoe, the neighborhood colossus, three times Polynesian Thai boxing champion in the super-heavyweight category. His club, Team Arupa, is one of those fairly tight sub-groups: to be admitted you must first run to the dike, then put on gloves and exchange blows. We are far from the ideological and cultural struggles of certain other more socially advantaged groups, and from the smoky boredom, from the tension perceptible in other neighborhoods: here we are in a daily practice, in a discipline in every sense of the word . While meeting Hentz Tinomoe I quickly met his enemy brother Roland Tiaipoi. He also takes care of the young people in his neighborhood of Tipaerui, he also channels them. It's long-term work, as Roland Darrouzes, president of the Tahitian Federation of Thai Boxing and associated disciplines, says. Roland and Hentz are not alone, Polynesia has around fifteen clubs, but they are the biggest. Unknown to the general public, they chose pragmatism.
- How at the beginning of 2022, while doing research in France on Henriette Lorimier and the women painters of the early 19th century, in a cellar in Bagneux Jonathan Bougard came across a bust signed Muta Mayola, the most important Congolese sculptor of the twentieth century, of which we thought all the works had disappeared. At the same time as on a set of works by his students and nephews Grégoire Massengo, Benoit Konongo and Edouard Malonga. The fathers of modern Congolese sculpture, main representatives of the Muta Mayola school.
- What is the daily life of Turkish Sultan Kosen, the tallest man in the world, like in Bruno Loyale's Magic Circus of Samoa, for a month on the Apogoti site in New Caledonia? Some accuse the circus of exploiting it, what is it really? Sultan has been making a living performing in the Pacific Islands for years.
- During the health crisis, employees of a McDonald's restaurant placed in compulsory liquidation in Marseille have requisitioned the place to turn it into a food distribution platform.
- Everyone is versatile, which explains the success of Théo who has represented Tahitian dance all over the world for 36 years. Nobody is idle at Théo Sulpice, yet always in a good mood.
- This film focuses on the links between Maori tattoo artists from New Zealand (James Webster, Juliee Paama Penguely, Moko de la Terre) and those from French Polynesia (Roonui Anania, Chimé, Laurent Purotu). With interventions by specialists Sébastien Galliot and Michael Koch.
- Unanimously considered the greatest choreographer Polynesia has known, Coco Hotahota is a dance master. He is one of the rare group leaders, if not the only one, to actually take care of the entire production chain of a show, whether it is writing the theme, writing the songs, composing. , costume creation, choreography. In 1962 he created his troupe, Te Maeva, which in 55 years of existence will have been the most successful troupe in the history of Heiva i Tahiti, and also the largest troupe in terms of number, more than 150 dancers in peak, in the 80s. Today we have the impression that Coco, who has long represented modernity, has become a bit of a reference for tradition. It's the whole contradiction of the character that we also admire for that. This film traces the long history of Te Maeva.
- Chronicle of the first tattoo festival which was held at the end of March and beginning of April 2017 at the town hall of Faa'a in Tahiti. With Moana Heitaa, Pai Aritai, Patu, Tuatini Tamata, Tana Tokoragi, Estelle Anania miss Ink Girl France 2017 godmother of the festival and around fifteen young tattoo artists for whom it was the first festival.
- Born in 1968 in Manchester, Great Britain. Painter, writer, and singer with LARYNX AND CLAW (and formerly "The Umbilical Chords"), Scott Batty has produced several books of images and poems, notably at Dernier Cri ("Gas Flowers") and L'Hippopotame de Thèbes ("Peeling Angels").
- Celebration of Fernando Arrabal, 90 years old, poet, playwright, member of the transcendent body of satraps of the college of pataphysics and founder of the panic movement with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor. With Alejandra Chulia Jordan, Arrabal specialist. With the contribution of François Naudin. Moderation Wanda Mihuléac. Caroline Corre for bibliophile books.
- Portrait of a silent old man, with a life full of drama. Moussake comes from the remote Tuamotu archipelago in French Polynesia. He makes a living from picking Tahitian tiaras and performing musical events at the Papeete market. The film follows him along the congested roads of the Tahitian capital, then into the cabin where he makes flower crowns and receives visits from his children.
- Charne Potgieter Salgueiroza is a South African contortionist and acrobat who performs primarily in Dubai, South America and the Pacific. We get to know her within Bruno Loyale's Magic Circus of Samoa, the only circus in the Pacific. Every evening she presents two different numbers. Sometimes there are several performances per day.