Eke Oskar Almann

Following a serious domestic violence incident, 13 year old Paul arrives in an unfamiliar town where in his pursuit of happiness he makes one bad decision after another. His seemingly inevitable downfall is thwarted, however, by a strange disabled man.

The feature film "Hooleta" is a painfully honest look at the mental health crisis among today's youth. Emma - a young girl caught in the eye of a domestic storm. Struggling with the fallout of a fractured family, she searches for the missing pieces of love and belonging in all the wrong places. At school pressures mount and relationships crumble, Emma's life becomes a balancing act between self-destruction and the desperate hope for a new beginning. This is an intimate, emotional journey of a girl fighting to reclaim her identity from the wreckage of her daily life.