"Standing Above the Clouds"

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Film still from "Standing Above the Clouds" directed by Jalena Keane-Lee (USA, 2024).

Standing Above the Clouds​ is a story of inter-generational women activists, who call themselves Ku Kia'i Mauna, or guardians of the mountain.

The film follows three sets of mothers and daughters on the Big Island of Hawai'i who find themselves standing at the forefront of the movement to safeguard their sacred mountain, Mauna a Wakea, when a construction permit is granted for an eighteen story, Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) to be built directly below the summit on pristine, untouched land. The film explores the relationships between native Hawaiian mothers and daughters as they go from standing in ceremony to standing on the mountain and in the courtroom. ​Standing Above the Clouds​ brings into focus how the movement has brought a new found expression of solidarity and a spirit of hope amongst peoples across lands and oceans who form alliances  to safeguard their environment, lifeways and future.

Film will be screened in original version with subtitles in Catalan.

A film in the 2026 edition of IndiFest, Barcelona Indigenous Film Festival.

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