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The film is also available on VTIFF’s Virtual Cinema from Sunday, March 6th through March 8th.
Vai, meaning water, is a portmanteau feature film made by nine female Pacific filmmakers filmed in seven different Pacific countries. The film follows a journey of empowerment through culture over the lifetime of one woman, Vai, played by different Indigenous actresses in each of the countries. The result is neither straightforward narrative nor polemical abstract, but instead a meditation on womanhood and vanishing traditions.
The task of each writer-helmer was to create a 10-minute vignette from a fictive woman’s life, each segment advancing a decade or so forward, deploying a single continuous shot where possible.
The festival program is in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association
