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- Just for the time of a film, let's have fun reversing the roles... Let's imagine it isn't for the economists anymore to demonstrate their growth model, but for the farmers, artists, craftsmen, and streetwise vendors of all kind to showcase their skills and their unique reality, to apply during a time of economic crisis. Welcome to Madagascar, that island where we prefer proverbs and picturesque speech rather than graphics and equations. Confronted with adversity and daily struggles, the Malagasy Way of life is a mix of creativity, music, joie de vivre, fraternal support, and above all, a sense of creative recycling. These are the key to ADY GASY!
- Malagasy Mankany is a colorful and entertaining dramedy-adventure set in Madagascar about three sociology students named Jimi, Bob and Dylan. When Jimi's father becomes suddenly ill and nears death in his home village, the three friends embark on a journey of a lifetime from the capital of Madagascar to the deep countryside to bring assistance to Jimi's family. On the road trip, the trio encounters off the wall characters that embody the spirit of the island of Madagascar. Their journey ends with each of them standing at the very edge of their future, which brings them not only face to face with their own fate but the fate of their country.
- They were called fahavalo - enemies - because they rebelled in 1947 against French colonial authorities in Madagascar. Today, filmmaker Marie-Clémence Andriamonta Paes takes us where the events took place, on a journey to meet the last witnesses. They tell us about their fight for independence and their long months of resistance in the jungle, armed only with spears and talismans. When Malagasy soldiers came back from WWII, they expected de Gaulle to give them independence. Instead, they were asked to return to their indigenous status and provide unfree labour in coffee plantations. They soon organized an uprising, harshly repressed by the French and their heavy weaponry. They resisted for months though, with the help of shamans and their magic formulas. Through the mesmerizing music of Régis Gizavo, the dialogue between never seen archive footage from the 40's and heartfelt testimonies makes us travel into a forgotten past. A journey into history, filmed today, along the railways, through the forest, from the Highlands to the East coast of Madagascar.
- On the eve of his departure, a soldier learns the strange story of a woman who dances on a hill every night.
- The story of Madagascar from 1895 to 1975: colonization, war, revolt, independence. Since the movie is a historical drama, the Malagasy government forced the director to modify the film so that it was in accordance with the Socialist Revolutionary ideas.
- We can doubt on many things except death but we don't know when and how. Sometimes, death puts us in an unexpected journey. Death tears the family apart. The survivors develop a feeling of guilt for not having saved the life of the deceased loved one. Where and how will they find healing for their wounds? The filmmaker brings a rich context to this long standing tradition by tracing one family's journey through grief, guilt and redemption embedded in the process of famadihana (reburial). It is a journey of repair and reconciliation in terms of 'seeing again' and 'touching again'. Famadihana is a rite of opening the family crypts, re-wrapping the bones and transferring into a different tomb or returning it into the same tomb.
- A photographer decides to discuss love and heartache with the people he photographs.
- A poor country selling its last resources for foreign money. Life goes on. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
- Dadakoto, why do you often say « It's our road » ? - It's actually a game. In working he plays, In working he lives.
- A male prostitute comes into contact with a range of clients.
- In the wonderful land of Madagascar, as everywhere else, the problems are strictly human. The nature, placid and majestic, stands still.
- A Madagascan singer joyfully recounts how his music saved his life, when he used it as a way of communicating with some violent warriors who attacked him.
- A boy who lives with his grandmother discovers that he has the power to change their lives for the better.
- As his son approaches an important exam, a young father finds himself in a desperate financial situation.
- An exploration of Morengy, a traditional martial art from Madagascar whose survival is threatened in the contemporary world.
- This short documentary brings the links between population growth and environmental destruction on the island of Madagascar into sharp focus - and explores what one innovative local organization is doing about it.
- I found 8mm footage, shot at the time of my mother's youth in Madagascar. I worked with a dancer who's body became a form through which these images could be reshaped. Since the very beginning it was clear that a sense of coldness would be part of the film, here linked to a feeling of disappearance. When we started to shoot, snow fell down and I realized it was a visual incarnation of melancholy.
- The daily life of a coral picker, trying to make a living in the bay of Tamatave, Madagascar.
- "If some want to perpetuate colonization, Malagasy people must oppose a strong no, whoever the colonists are » . Thus spoke Felix Robson, deported during the anti-colonial insurrection of 1947.
- A bee trapped behind a window suffers an existential crisis.
- An elderly woman prepares for a visit from her grandson.