Zaho Zay
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Production year2020
Runtime1 h 18 min
Synopsis
A young woman works as a guard in a hopelessly overcrowded prison in Madagascar. She passes the time daydreaming about her father, a murderer who abandoned her as a child after killing his own brother. In her imagination, her father becomes a mythical killer, wandering the countryside and rolling enchanted dice to decide the fate of his victims. Secretly, she yearns for the day he might turn up amongst the prisoners. When a new inmate arrives claiming to know her father, the young woman's fantasies begin to turn to nightmares.
Credits
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Tomsa Films
- Foreign production companies : Subobscura Films, Katrafay Film
Full credits (5)
- Executive Producer : Maéva Ranaïvojaona
- Director of Photography : Georg Tiller
- Music Composers : André Fèvre, Terence Meunier
- Editor : Barbara Bossuet
- Foreign Producer : Georg Tiller
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : Malagasy, French
- Coproducer countries : France, Austria, Madagascar
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 2020
News & awards
Selections (5)
Awards (1)
About
Festival selections
2020
- FIDMarseille (France) | International Competition | Renaud Victor Award & Special Mention
- Split Film Festival (Croatia)
- DokLeipzig (Germany) | Caméra Lucida section
- Jihlava Int Documentary Film Festival (Czech Republic) | First Light Section
- Viennale (Austria) | Austrian Competition | Erste Bank’s ExtraVALUE Film Award
- Fidocs (Chile) | International Competition
- Torino Film Festival (Italy) | TFFDoc International
- This Human World (Austria) | Austrian Competition
2021
- Luxor African Film Festival (Egypt) | Competition
- Diagonale (Austria)
- Ficunam (Mexico) | Atlas Section
- Hotdocs (Canada) | Markers Section
- Ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival Vienna (Austria)
- Festival de Cine Africano - FCAT (Spain) | Competition
- CPH : DOX - Artists and auteurs section & Doc Alliance Award 2021 competition
- San Francisco Documentary lm Festival
- Beldocs IDFF | Competition
- Festival du lm insulaire de l’île de Groix | Compétition
- Festival du film Panafricain
- Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival
Resources
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