She is both French and Malagasy, he is Brazilian and French.
They make feature length documentaries where music is a way to explore serious topics and fight against clichés.
Their previous films such as “Angano…angano…tales from Madagascar” or “Songs and Tears of Nature”, “Awara soup” have won top awards and been screened by festivals all over the world (Cinema du Réel, Festival dei Popoli, Leipzig, Taïwan). Their feature length documentary “Mahaleo” has won a SCAM Star in 2007, and was co-produced by ARTE France cinema with the support of Canal +. “Saudade do futuro” won the Audience award at the Rencontres internationales de Cinéma (Forum des Images). Both films have been theatrically released in France and in the USA (Film Forum, Facets).
In the wings of the opera “Maraina”, the film combines history and oral memory, to recount in music the Europeans’ first contacts with the natives of the Indian Ocean islands, made of violence and love stories. Between the XVIIth century and today, this historical road movie follows the cast’s fantastic journey to the place where it all began – Fort-Dauphin,…