Moana (2016): Accompany Moana, a courageous young girl, as she sets sail on a daring adventure to save her people and discover her true identity. On the Polynesian island of Motunui, the inhabitants worshipped the goddess of nature, Te Fiti (a living island who brought life to the ocean long ago using a pounamu stone as her heart and the source of her power). Maui, the trickster, shape-shifting demigod of the wind and sea and master of wayfinding, stole the heart to give humanity the power of creation. This caused Te Fiti to disintegrate, and Maui was attacked by Te Kā, a volcanic demon. He lost both the heart and his magic fish hook to the depths of the sea.
A thousand years later, the ocean chooses Moana, daughter of Motunui’s chief Tui, to return the heart to Te Fiti. Tui and Sina, Moana’s father and mother, try to keep her away from the ocean to prepare her to become the island’s chief. Sixteen years later, blight strikes the island, killing vegetation and shrinking the fish catch. Moana suggests going beyond the island’s reef with her pet pig Pua to find more fish and find out what is happening, but Tui forbids it. Moana tries conquering the reef but is overpowered by the tides and shipwrecked.
