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- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- On the eve of his departure, a soldier learns the strange story of a woman who dances on a hill every night.
- 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.
- "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").
- 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 daily life of a coral picker, trying to make a living in the bay of Tamatave, Madagascar.
- A photographer decides to discuss love and heartache with the people he photographs.
- 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.
- A respected elderly guitarist recalls his experiences of Madagascar in the 1940s, a time when the country was undergoing social and cultural change.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A pianist loses control of his fingers.
- A man trying to come to terms with baldness goes through the five stages of grief.
- 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.
- "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.
- As his son approaches an important exam, a young father finds himself in a desperate financial situation.
- Samneto, a young orphan, sells water to pay for his studies and survive. The region he lives in, near Belfike, in Madagascar, is experiencing a severe drought: according to him, it has not rained for three years, which forces him to dig up to three meters deep to get water - which was previously accessible from river pumps. The meager revenue collected by our witness barely allows him to survive.
- 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.