Rapa Nui

Rapa Nui (1994) is Kevin Reynolds' adventure drama you can watch online on iFILM, set on Easter Island back when two rival clans still ruled it.

Noro, born to the ruling Long Ears, loves Ramana, a girl from the poor Short Ears. So does Make, his childhood friend. Once a year the island stages a brutal contest: swim to a neighboring rock, bring back an unbroken seabird egg, and the winner becomes the Birdman who rules for a year. Jason Scott Lee, Esai Morales and Sandrine Holt take the leads.

Produced by Kevin Costner and shot on Rapa Nui itself, among the real moai statues, the film carries a texture few studio pictures can fake. Beneath the love triangle runs a bleak parable about a society stripping its own island bare for the sake of pride and rivalry. Stream Rapa Nui (1994) online on iFILM.