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Peter Turei's wide-ranging doco explores the history of nuclear testing in the Pacific — and its relationship with French colonialism in Tahiti (which locals claim has made them strangers or "Hotu Painu" in their own land). There is compelling testimony of serious health effects from previous tests; and Turei's cameras follow a Greenpeace protest flotilla to Moruroa as the French keep watch. Interwoven throughout is the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior — and its aftermath as DGSE agents are tried and the ship finds a final resting place at Matauri Bay.

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 Peter Turei
 Douglas Owens
 Saskia Kouwenberg

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Quotes

When Europeans first came here the people named them 'Hotu Painu' after the poisonous fruit which drifts on the ocean from island to island. But now it is us who have become 'Hotu Painu' and foreigners occupy our land. 
The old people say Moruroa was a very beautiful island. Now the homeland of those who gave life to me has been desecrated.