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MOANA WITH SOUND

Robert Flaherty | 85 min | United States, Samoa | 1926

Flaherty, the father of American documentary, followed his massively successful Nanook of the North with this visually ravishing document of the traditional life of Polynesians on the Samoan island of Savaiʻi, focused on the title character. Presented here with the evocative soundtrack of Indigenous song created by Flaherty’s daughter Monica.


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