An immersion among three young workers in Madagascar. Worn by the sounds and the rhythm of their gestures, by their words and songs, this film is a tribute to their extraordinary skills. It also invites us to reflect on what from craftsman made them, in fact, exploited workers. From red eucalyptus trunks slaughtering by ax, to wood transport to the city gates by raft, we penetrate the heart of a subsistence economy sector, reflection of a system in which, each man, woman and child is ready to take on any task for only pennies…

Duration : 52’11’’
Aspect Ratio : 4/3 – Color
Sound : Stereo
Language : Malgasy, English and French subtitles
Screening format : DVCAM, BetacamSP, Digital Betacam

Screenings:

Special screening at Comptoir Du Doc – Rennes 2012
30th International Film Festival Jean Rouch – Paris 2011
International Documentary Festival – Filmer à Tout Prix – Bruxelles 2011
Rencontres cinéma-nature – Dompierre 2010
(Prize for best environemental film)
Territoires en Images – Paris 2010
(Prize for best documentary film)
Special screening at La 25ème Image – Pau 2012
Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival – 2010
International Festival of African Film – La Réunion 2009
International Film Festival Les Ecrans Documentaires – Arceuil 2009
Days of Ethnographic Cinéma – Moscou 2009
International Film Festival Henri Langlois – Poitier 2009
International Ethnographic Film Festival – Belgrade 2009
International Short Film Meeting El Sur – Paris 2009
International Documentary Film Festival Corsica.Doc – Ajaccio 2009
Pre-premiere at the Quai Branly Museum – Paris 2009

“For the way the film reveals through religious practices a neighborhood of Port-au-Prince struggling with its changes and conflicts, and for its formal qualities of sound, image and editing. Facing a clear increase in conservative and various forms of intolerance – including religious – the film gives us a space to share experiences with voodoo practitioners who still suffer the political persecution in the country that was the first in the Americas to rise up against the colonial yoke.”, Jury of the International Film Festival of Recife, Brazil, 2015

To the heart of a Port-au-Prince neighborhood in Haiti, in the Jean-Max voodoo house, those whom he calls his “children” operate the singular metamorphosis of the place. Through daily life and the religious journey, we follow the thread of a memory that reflects both an extraordinary cultural strength an beauty, religious conflicts and the wounded face of Haitian society. Voices from the past and present resound and question a certain chaotic off-screen reality in the country…

Lenght : 41 Min
Aspect Ratio : 16/9 – Color
Language : Creole, French with English and French subtitles
Sound : Stereo
Screening format : DCP, HDCAM, DigiBeta(PAL),Beta SP (PAL)

Screenings:

Festival International du Film Ethnographique de Récife, 2015
(Mention spéciale du jury)
Festival International du Film d’Afrique et des Iles, La Réunion, 2012
International Visual Anthropology Workshop on Visualizing Crisis – Centro Incontri Umani, Ascona (Suisse), 2012
Digital Anthropologies, Centre de création numérique Le Cube, Paris 2013
Comité du Film Ethnographique – Cycle “L’autre & le sacré” – Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration, Paris 2013

Between Europe and Haiti, 10 minutes of an intimate testimony around the consequences of the terrible earthquake that devastated the capital of the country on January 12, 2010.

Lenght : 10 Min
Aspect Ratio : 16/9 – Color
Language : Creole, French with English and French subtitles
Sound : Stereo
Screening format : DCP, HD File

In the heart of the Ngeghok Forest, 80km south of Dakar, two shrubs are separated by a fence that men erected during their growth. Two very different lives are emerging for the colossi that have become the two baobab seeds…

Lenght : 12 Min
Aspect Ratio : 16/9 – Color
Language : French with English subtitles
Sound : Stereo
Screening format : Video File

In the Essonne region, center of France, a meditation center welcomes a mixed group of young teenagers. What can be the use of what they come to learn there during these few days?

Lenght : 15 Min
Aspect Ratio : 16/9 – Color
Language : French with English subtitles
Sound : Stereo
Screening format : HD File