Ady Gasy
Synopsis
"The Chinese manufacture objects, Madagascans repair them."
There are those who make shoes out of tires, those who make lamps out of tin cans, those who transform Zebu bones into soap and medecine... Nothing is wasted, everything is transformed.
In Madagascar, people defy the financial crisis with inventiveness, without ever losing their identity and their sense of humor. They depend on an oral tradition that is always dignified, although often cheerful and comical, sometimes distraught and outraged, but never bitter.
The film's plot is a kind of bittersweet satire about global overproduction and overconsumption. The film's shape is a game of mirrors that contrasts the insistent and well-oiled discourse of certain development agencies (the World Bank Group, WMF) with those of Madagascan orators. "Life on this Earth is like a wagon wheel, the top can find itself on the bottom, and the bottom, at the top."
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Laterit Productions
- French distribution : Laterit Productions
Full credits (5)
- Screenwriters : Nantenaina Lova, Éva Lova-Bely
- Directors of Photography : Nantenaina Lova, Lanto Tiana Rabearison, Éva Lova-Bely
- Editor : Nantenaina Lova
- Press Attaché (film) : Stanislas Baudry
- Sound Mixer : Jean-Guy Véran
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Production language : English, French, Malagasy
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2015
- French release : 08/04/2015
- Runtime : 1 h 24 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 138.578
- Approval : Yes
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
