LOIMATA, The Sweetest Tears

Director Anna Marbrook honours the last voyage of the great waka maker, sailor and mentor Ema Siope, whose journeys between Aotearoa and Sāmoa in search of healing, and her family’s reckoning with systemic abuse, are powerfully documented.

“A stirring and visually gripping documentary… honouring the life and times of a great woman whose wake will be felt for years to come.” ~Michael Andrew, Asia Pacific Report