Cane Fire

2020 • 89 minutes

About this movie

The Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi is seen as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement, hyper-exploitation of workers and destructive environmental extraction that have shaped life on the island for 250 years. Cane Fire critically examines the island’s history through four generations of director Anthony Banua-Simon’s family.