Tū Tonu – Still Standing

The scouts

It's a doc that refuses to be a sermon—Zane Wedding's crisis isn't resolved through righteous certainty but by sitting with the irreconcilable, and the film trusts that ambiguity enough to not blink. Most environmental shorts are so busy converting you they forget to actually *doubt*.

The mythic register—how Day and Polkinghorne elevate a single athlete's choice into something ritualistic and ceremonial—places this in conversation with the best sports documentaries, where the body becomes a text for examining larger moral commitments.

The decision to let silence and Zane's physical presence do the narrative work instead of talking-head justification is what lands this; there's one moment of him simply standing, post-arrest, where the entire film's tension resolves in posture alone.