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Mahaleo

  • Mahaleo
Genre : Musical
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Music, Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2005
Format : Feature
Running time : 102 (in minutes)
http://www.mahaleo.com

Em Malgaxe "Mahaleo" significa liberdade, independencia e autônomo. Os sete músicos do grupo Mahaleo sempre recusaram o "show-business" apesar dos seus trinta anos de sucesso. Eles se dedicam ao desenvolvemento do país.
Esses inventores do Blues Malgaxe são tambén cirurgiões, médico, agriculdor, sociólogos ou deputado... Acredita-se em Madagascar que as canções dos Mahaleo levaram o pôvo a fazer a revolução de 1972 até conseguir a quêda do regime neo-colonial. Hoje, eles continuam a cantar sendo a banda mais famosa da ilha e acompanhar a vida dos Malgaxes.

Guiados pela força e a emoção das canções do grupo, o filme é um retrato de Madagascar hoje em dia.


Mahaleo
um filme de Paes & Rajaonarivelo


Site oficial do filme : www.mahaleo.com

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Mahaleo is the most famous band in Madagascar. In Malagasy "Mahaleo" means free, independent, self-sufficient. The 7 musicians of the band have never fallen into "show-business" despite 30 years of success. They chose to remain "amateurs" and they dedicate their efforts to a "real" profession aside from the music. They are hysician, surgeons, farmer, lawyer, sociologist or deputy. Driven by yhe strength of their songs and their activities our film will sketch a portrait of Madagascar today.


Documentary 90 min


Director Cesar Paes
Director Raymond Rajaonarivelo
Script Raymond Rajaonarivelo
Photography Cesar Paes
Photography Raymond Rajaonarivelo
Editing Agnès Contensou
With Mahaleo
Sound effects Mahaleo


Production Laterit Productions (France)
Coproduction Cobra films (Belgique)
Coproduction ARTE Cinéma (France)
Coproduction RTBF (Télévsion belge)
Coproduction California Newsreel (USA)
With the support of CNC (France)
With the support of Fonds Europeen de developpement
With the help of Fonds francophone audivisuelle du sud
With the help of The Church Development Service (EED)
With the help of Canal + (France)


Diffusions
Sorties salle : nombreuses salles en France en 2005 + Madagascar en juillet 2005 - CANAL + Web


Festivals Rencontres Cinéma de Manosque (F),
Cinéma du réel (F)
FESPACO (Ouagadougou),
festival de films de Fribourg (CH), Festival de cinéma
Africain and d'Amérique Latine (I),
Afrika Film Festival de Leuven (B),
Festival Cinémas d'Afrique d'Angers (F),
Festival de Brighton (UK),
dokumentarfilmfestival München (D),
Festival du Film d'Afrique and des Iles (La Réunion),
Festival du cinéma d'attac (B),.....

Prices
Prix du public and l'ile d'argent au Festival International du Film Insulaire de l'île de Groix (France)
2005, Prix du meilleur documentaire "Regards sur le cinéma du sud" de Rouen 2006

DVDs

1 files

Articles

4 files

Events

31 files

Groups

1 files

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS

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