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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!
- 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.
- 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.
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- The story of a unique experience. Fifteen orphaned blind children and fifteen girls who had suffered child exploitation in the south of Madagascar, leave their country for the first time as a part of a concert tour taking them to over twenty different locations in Spain in an effort to demand children's fundamental rights. Malagasy Gospel is also an encounter with the children's routing in Madagascar, where music is the best way to look after each other.
- In Tamatave, Rita and Lalia are two young primary school teachers. They face up to the children's difficulties in a first grade class. One is in a public school, the other is in a private school. They live very different conditions of teaching and life in a country where education is unfortunately not a priority.
- The opening ceremony of the newly built motion pictures studio center Crater Lake City is left terrorized by the disappearance of a leading female actress on its opening celebration night.
- "They want to dig us up, to spoil you, starve you, make you thirsty, poison you - be brave, we're fighting by your side!" These could be the message of the people of the sea's ancestors to Edmond and those who are fighting against a big Australian mining project in the southwest of Madagascar. Fishing is the life of Edmond, of all the Vezo. In the name of "development", trawlers plunder "their" sea, and this project is a new curse. To keep faith, Edmond named his canoe: "Aza Kivy" ("Don't give up").
- 'Bound to the Past' is the story of two youth from neighboring tribes off the northwest coast of Madagascar. Through their stories and perspectives, the film explores their cultures and the dark spiritual bondage common to many of Madagascar's people.
- In the small village of Andasibe in eastern Madagascar, a dedicated group of individuals, both locals and transplants, are working together to halt the destruction of the natural environment. Time is not on their side. In a nation where less than five percent of native forests remain, they must kick-start reforestation through a combination of education, conservation, and community spirit.
- While the Malagasy capital Antananarivo is in the turmoil of a political crisis, the filmmaker Hamy Ratovo fights against the censorship of his film in the margins of the demonstrations. Mixing real facts and fiction, «Antananarivo Tiako Ianao» is the story of the massacre that occurred in Antananarivo on the 7th of February 2009.
- A pianist loses control of his fingers.
- On the eve of his departure, a soldier learns the strange story of a woman who dances on a hill every night.
- 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.
- Solo is Malagasy, Parisian and gay. In order to fulfill the last wishes of his deceased partner, Solo returns to Madagascar to meet with his estranged "in-laws".
- A boy who lives with his grandmother discovers that he has the power to change their lives for the better.
- "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.
- 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.
- A traditional Vezo fisherwoman Madame Kokoly as she reflects on her life experiences and carries out her daily routine in and around the coastal waters of southwest Madagascar.
- 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.
- An elderly woman prepares for a visit from her grandson.
- For Malagasies who honor ancestors, if a deceased person is in a tomb, his mind is always alive and here, he keeps his individuality and his connection with his family. In Alasora, on the central highlands of Madagascar, Marie, the dwarf, takes care of the royal grave which was entrusted to her and welcomes visitors.
- Dadakoto, why do you often say « It's our road » ? - It's actually a game. In working he plays, In working he lives.
- The world has been stripped of color by hooded figures known as Rippers. Few people remember what they are missing, but a young woman plans to change that fact.