Dear ancestor
Director:
Lova Nantenaina and Eva Lova-Bély
Duration:
71 minutes
Year:
2025
Category:
Feature-Length Documentary
Synopsis
2067, Reunion : a mother prays to her ancestors from the sea people of the neighboring Great Island. She tells her daughter about the struggle of her grandfather, Dadabe, against a large polluting project that devastated their ancestral lands and forced them into exile. It was a time when the powerful, across the world, disparaged those who, like Dadabe, were determined to leave fertile lands and generous waters for the children yet to be born…
Country & Language:
Madagascar
French and Malagasy
Subtitled in French and English
Production:
Papang Films and Endemika Films
Location
Ciné Cambaie
Date & Time
15/04 at 8:50PM
lova nantenaina
Lova Nantenaina was born in 1977 in Madagascar into a modest family. After studying social sciences, he earned a master’s degree from the Toulouse Film School (ENSAV) in 2009. Since then, he has sought to film his native island and his adopted island, La Réunion, with an endemic perspective. Endemika Films is the name he chose for his production company in Antananarivo. His internationally recognized works (IDFA, Hot Docs, TIFF, DOXA, FESPACO…) reflect a singular perspective on issues of memory and resistance to destructive globalization.
Eva Lova-Bély
Co-writer and producer, she has been working for 15 years on documentary films rooted in the realities of the Indian Ocean. After studying anthropology and completing a master’s degree in production at the Documentary School of Lussas (France), she managed Endemika Films in Madagascar, and since 2020 has been running Papang Films in La Réunion. She has produced N. Lova’s films: Ady Gasy (84 min), Morning Star (77 min), and Chez les Zébus Francophones (104 min), selected at IDFA and awarded at various festivals.