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🍿 About the movie:

At the other end of the world, almost 20,000 kilometers away from us, two islands rise out of the vastness of the Pacific Ocean. No one can make it here in less than 25 hours by plane; you can't travel further away: New Zealand.

Berlin-based photographer Roland Marske has brought back spectacular images from several trips that show a Noah's Ark of primeval nature as you have never seen it before. It is an encounter with the elemental: Deep beneath the islands, the Pacific and Australian continental plates collide and unleash powerful tectonic forces. On the North Island, they form a variety of volcanic landscapes and geothermal natural spectacles between impenetrable rainforests with giant ferns. On the South Island, they unfold a mountainous landscape comparable to the Alps, with a fjord coast that is on a par with Norway. Nowhere else are such diverse landscapes so close together as here.

Undiscovered for a long time and completely isolated from the rest of the world, a flora and fauna has developed that cannot be found anywhere else in the world. When China was already producing porcelain and silk, even as the Roman Empire rose and fell, New Zealand was still a land of birds. It was not until Gothic cathedrals were built in Europe that it was discovered and settled by Polynesian tribes. They came across the sea in seaworthy canoes and called their new homeland "Ao-tea-roa" - the "Land of the Long White Cloud". They referred to themselves as Maori, as "original" or "normal" - in contrast to the whites, who arrived here around 250 years after the end of Maori settlement and were called, unflatteringly, Pakehas: "fat pork".

Roland Marske's breathtaking show, staged on a large screen, transports the audience to a paradisiacal dream destination. In their Kiwi slang, they like to refer to their country as "Godzone", "God's own country". And maybe they really are right...