Catalogue des films par mot-clé
Yves Rodrigue | France | 2002 | 41 mn
Antsirabe in the Malagasy Republic has no public transport. Some 5,000 rickshaws are driven by peasants in quest for supplementary ressources. One of them is not such peasant and in good terms with the owner of his rickshaw. Indeed, he was a civil...
Geneviève Wiels | France | 2001 | 23 mn
In the East of Madagascar, an island with a bizarre past has managed to survive thanks to tourism.
Raymond Arnaud | France | 2001 | 45 mn
Sambatra is a collective circuncision ritual which takes place every seven years among the Antambahoaka, an ethnic group from the south-est of Madagascar. The most important steps of Sambatra have been filmed in October 2000 at Mananjary during...
Yves Rodrigue | France | 2001 | 55 mn
Every seven years, the smallest tribe of the Malagasy Republic, the Antambahoaka celebrates, for a week, its children’s circumcision. The king of each of the eight clans presides over the festivities helped by a chief of war (it is a fight...
Didier Mauro | France | 2001 | 57 mn
The operatic artiste Hira Gasy Perline Razafiarisoa, having been healed of a disorder of the foot (due, according to her neighbours, to a spell), recounts how, during a ritual, she almost became possessed. The members of the family and her...
Didier Mauro | France, Madagascar | 2000 | 52 mn
The film "Madagascar, terre des ancêtres" bears within it a question : what are the philosophical, religious, psycho-affective and social dimensions of "famadihana", the ceremony during which the Madagascans open tombs, take out the bodies of...
Éric Gandit | France | 2000 | 50 mn
In Madagascar, the "Ombiasses" or medicine-men occupy a particular place in society. Indeed, nothing is done, nothing is decided, without the help of these curious people. They are deviners, healers, sorcerers, and are esteemed for their gifts of...
Jérémie Reichenbach | France | 2000 | 47 mn
A dozen youngsters from the Paris suburbs put together a humanitarian project with the monitors of a prevention club. During the month that they spend in Madagascar they repave a road with young Madagascans and come up against the social reality...
Éric Millot | France | 2000 | 52 mn
Two vets and their three-year-old daughter take a jeep half way across the world in search of disappearing species from the Yemen through Africa and from Madagascar and to Asia. The fosa is a carnivorous animal embossed by the population in...