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- 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.
- 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 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").
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- An elderly woman prepares for a visit from her grandson.
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- A poor country selling its last resources for foreign money. Life goes on. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
- 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.
- 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.
- An examination of the way that an invasive species of cactus, known as "raketa mena", has wiped out native flora in Madagascar and endangered indigenous food production.
- 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.
- 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.
- As his son approaches an important exam, a young father finds himself in a desperate financial situation.
- The daily life of a coral picker, trying to make a living in the bay of Tamatave, Madagascar.
- 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.
- In the wonderful land of Madagascar, as everywhere else, the problems are strictly human. The nature, placid and majestic, stands still.
- 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.
- "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.