DISCO AFRIKA: UNE HISTOIRE MALGACHE
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Kwame and Rivo try their luck in a clandestine sapphire mine. Their hopes are dashed when foreigners buy the land where the mine is located. Kwame returns to his hometown and embarks on a quest to find out his father's story. In search of work, he is confronted with the endemic corruption in his country. DISCO AFRIKA: UNE HISTOIRE MALGACHE depicts Kwame's dilemma between personal interests and social ideals. In his feature film, filmmaker Luck Razanajaona weaves together the heritage of the past and the resistance with the contemporary Madagascan society to explore the power of youth as the driving force for change.
DISCO AFRIKA: UNE HISTOIRE MALGACHE Direction: Luck Razanajaona, DCP, OmeU, 81 min
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Luck Razanajaona is a promising talent among young filmmakers from Madagascar. He filmed his first short documentary AMEO RANO in 2009. Since then he has completed at least one production each year. In 2012, he was invited to the Talent Campus in Berlin and in Durban, South Africa. In the meantime Razanajaona has also filmed outside Madagascar, namely in Morocco, Germany, and on La Réunion. The short film ZEBU AN’I DADILAHY (2012), which is to be screened in Cologne, has been shown around the world and has garnered awards including the jury prize at the Festival Couleurs Malgaches 2013 in Nantes. His second festival contribution MADAMA ESTHER was included in the official competition of the 2013 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and the 2014 African Film Festival in Luxor. He is currently working on his first feature film, LE CHANT DES TLOUS, for which he received funding at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2012 through the programme “Les cinémas du monde“.