Tanna (2015) Film Summary

1. 'Tanna' Review: The First Film Shot in Vanuatu - Variety

  • 9 sep 2015 · The eternal story of young lovers breaking all the rules and risking everything to be together is beautifully told in “Tanna,” the first-ever feature shot ...

  • The eternal story of young lovers breaking all the rules and risking everything to be together is beautifully told in “Tanna,” the first-ever feature shot entirely in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu.

'Tanna' Review: The First Film Shot in Vanuatu - Variety

2. Tanna | Rotten Tomatoes

  • After a young woman runs away with the man she loves to avoid an arranged marriage, villagers wrestle with preserving their traditional culture.

  • After a young woman runs away with the man she loves to avoid an arranged marriage, villagers wrestle with preserving their traditional culture or adapting it to the increasing outside demands for individual freedom.

Tanna | Rotten Tomatoes

3. Tanna | Eye Filmmuseum

  • Classics | Rural drama about a recently widowed young farmer in the province of Limburg who gets into a relationship with a woman from the city. Golden Calf for ...

  • Dain and Wawa, children of the Yakel tribe in Vanuatu, the magical island kingdom in the south Pacific, want to get married. Tribal chief Charlie, however, has destined Wawa for an arranged marriage. The Australian documentary makers Butler and Dean chose inhabitants of Tanna as actors for their feature film based on a true story. The film received the Best Photography award at the Venice Film Festival.

Tanna | Eye Filmmuseum

4. Tanna review – Romeo and Juliet, South Pacific style | Drama films

  • 16 feb 2017 · A heartfelt story, enacted in lush locations by the Yakel tribe of Tanna island, tells of forbidden love across the tribal divide.

  • A heartfelt story, enacted in lush locations by the Yakel tribe of Tanna island, tells of forbidden love across the tribal divide

Tanna review – Romeo and Juliet, South Pacific style | Drama films

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6. Review: Tanna - Slant Magazine

  • 14 sep 2016 · Shaman come to the volcano to preach of maturity to unruly youth, and lovers ascend the peak to consummate their affection, affording the ...

  • Throughout Tanna, there’s often a sense that the narrative and the setting are at odds with one another.

Review: Tanna - Slant Magazine

7. Tanna (2015) - MUBI

  • In the South Pacific, Wawa, a young girl from one of the last traditional tribes, falls in love with her chief's grandson, Dain.

  • In the South Pacific, Wawa, a young girl from one of the last traditional tribes, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an intertribal war escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal. The lovers run away, but are pursued by enemy warriors intent on killing them.

Tanna (2015) - MUBI

8. Tanna - Demand.Film New Zealand

  • Tanna is set in the South Pacific where Wawa, a young girl from one of the last traditional tribes, falls in love with her chief's grandson, Dain. When an ...

  • Host a screening of Tanna near you. Tanna is set in the South Pacific where Wawa, a young girl from one of the last traditional tribes, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an intertribal war escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal. The young lovers run away, but are pursued by enemy warriors intent on killing them. They must choose between their hearts and the future of the tribe, while the villagers must wrestle with preserving their traditional culture and adapting it to the increasing outside demands for individual freedom. Tanna is based on a true story and performed by the people of Yakel in Vanuatu.

Tanna - Demand.Film New Zealand

9. Film Review – Tanna (2015) | Jordan and Eddie (The Movie Guys)

  • 25 aug 2017 · Tanna tells the story of lovebirds Dain and Wawa as they fight to be together against the rules of their tribe and people and are outcast.

  • Title – Tanna (2015) Directors – Martin Butler and Bentley Dean (feature debut) Cast – Mungau Dain, Marie Wawa, Kapan Cook, Dadwa Mungau Plot – On the South-Pacific island of Tanna, members of the …

Film Review – Tanna (2015) | Jordan and Eddie (The Movie Guys)

10. Tanna: Romancing Kastom, Eluding Exoticism? - OpenEdition Journals

  • 33The film represents the gendered hierarchies of Tannese kastom in ways that are quite ethnographically faithful, even though war between Tannese tribes ended ...

  • De nombreux débats portent sur les représentations de l'exotisme dans le Pacifique, que ce soit dans le domaine de l'anthropologie, des arts ou du cinéma. Le film Tanna, créé et filmé au Vanuatu, sur l’île du même nom, par les réalisateurs australiens Bentley Dean et Martin Butler, a été à la fois applaudi et critiqué pour avoir présenté le Vanuatu et ses habitants comme exotiques. De tels jugements doivent tenir compte de la complexité de cette co-création australienne et ni-Vanuatu qui se situe dans un entre-deux flottant entre réalité ethnographique et fiction cinématographique, tout en évoquant un sentiment de distance et de différence, ainsi que les émotions partagées de la réalité humaine face à un jeune amour et une disparition tragique. Cet article propose donc une analyse du film et de son accueil critique.

Tanna: Romancing Kastom, Eluding Exoticism? - OpenEdition Journals

11. Tanna review – volcanic South Pacific love story shot entirely in Vanuatu

  • 4 nov 2015 · While the narrative arc of this spectacularly exotic film, replete with visions of grass skirts, penis sheaths and a spitting volcano, is based ...

  • With its magnetic cast and Venice award-winning cinematography, this film treads the familiar theme of star-crossed lovers with shimmering vitality

Tanna review – volcanic South Pacific love story shot entirely in Vanuatu

12. Tanna (2015) (3/4): A love story on one volcanic tropical island

  • 12 mrt 2017 · Shot entirely in the island of Tanna, Vanuatu, the movie gives us a vivid, intimate look into an old way of life which has been maintained for many centuries ...

  • At first, “Tanna”, one of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominees of this year, strikes us with its exotic tropical world and the tribal communities inside that beautiful world. Shot entirely…

Tanna (2015) (3/4): A love story on one volcanic tropical island

13. Tanna | Oscars Wiki - Fandom

  • Tanna is a 2015 Australian-Vanuatuan film set on the island of Tanna in the South Pacific. It was directed and written by Martin Butler and Bentley Dean

  • Tanna is a 2015 Australian-Vanuatuan film set on the island of Tanna in the South Pacific. It was directed and written by Martin Butler and Bentley Dean and co-written with John Collee. It stars Mungau Dain and Marie Wawa. The film won the Audience Award Pietro Barzisa at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. It was selected as the Australian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, and was nominated for the award. Best Foreign Language Film — Australia — Marti

Tanna | Oscars Wiki - Fandom

14. Tanna: The Oscar-worthy film inspired by a Vanuatu tribal song - BBC News

  • 25 jan 2017 · In the 1980s, a young couple from two different tribes had fallen in love and wanted to marry. But their tribes were vehemently against it. The ...

  • The Academy Award-nominated film Tanna was inspired by a tribal song about two lovers in Vanuatu.

Tanna: The Oscar-worthy film inspired by a Vanuatu tribal song - BBC News

15. Tanna (2015) - Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd

  • In a traditional tribal society in the South Pacific, a young girl, Wawa, falls in love with her chief's grandson, Dain. When an inter-tribal war escalates, ...

  • In a traditional tribal society in the South Pacific, a young girl, Wawa, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an inter-tribal war escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal. The young lovers run away, refusing her arranged fate. They must choose between their hearts and the future of the tribe, while the villagers must wrestle with preserving their traditional culture and adapting it to the increasing outside demands for individual freedom.

Tanna (2015) - Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd

16. Tanna - FILM REVIEW

  • At the heart of Tanna is a love story involving Dain (Mungau Dain) the grandson of the chief of the Yakel tribe and a girl of the same tribe, Wawa (Marie Wawa), ...

  • Ethnicity plays a key role in this film and in the real events on which it is based.

Tanna - FILM REVIEW

17. Tanna (Film, 2015) - MovieMeter.nl

  • Plot Tanna. "Two tribes. One love." Het verhaal speelt zich af op een afgelegen eiland in de Stille Zuidzee.

  • Drama / Romantiek film geregisseerd door Martin Butler en Bentley Dean.

Tanna (Film, 2015) - MovieMeter.nl

18. Tanna (2015): Star-Crossed Lovers in the South Pacific

  • 19 sep 2019 · Tanna Film Review: Tanna is an authentic love story you may have never heard of before. ... From the island of Tanna in the country of Vanuatu, a ...

  • The Tanna film is a tribal version of Shakespeare’s great tragedy Romeo and Juliet. Two young lovers torn apart by intertribal strife and customs.

Tanna (2015): Star-Crossed Lovers in the South Pacific
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