DEAR ALOHA
Dear Aloha BY CRIS ROMENTO is a moving documentary on the Native Hawaiian diaspora, following Hawaiians living thousands of miles from the islands as they carry culture, memory, and belonging across distance. The film situates diaspora not as simple separation from home, but in the ongoing realities of colonization, land exploitation, and a tourism economy that has long profited from Hawaiʻi while making it harder for Native Hawaiians to remain rooted there. Dear Aloha offers a powerful reflection on how homeland can be both deeply loved and continuously extracted from — and how diaspora becomes one way of holding onto what tourism and occupation have tried to transform.
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