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Katope

Katope

Direction: Walt MZENGI COREY

 

Synopsis

As a young child struggles to find their place in the village, a mythical rain  bird appears and sets them on a journey to discover the secret of their  strange origins and a chance to end the drought that is devastating their  community.

 

Duration : 14 minutes

Year : 2024

Short film competition

DOMIN Award nominee

Country and Language

Tanzania

Cigogo
Subtitled french and english

Production

Solela Art & Film

Location

Ciné Cambaie

Date and time

08/04 at 6:30 pm

Walt MZENGI COREY​

Walt is a Tanzanian born writer, director, and cinematographer based  between Dar es Salaam and New York City. He has worked on several  award-winning films and has written and directed films that have been  selected at festivals such as Black Star Film Festival, Monmouth, and  Zanzibar International Film Festival. In 2022, Walt was selected as one of six winning filmmakers of the “African Folktales, Reimagined”  competition by Netflix and UNESCO, inciting the inception of Katope  (2023). Currently, he is a Film MFA Candidate at NYU, where he  continues to pursue the production of stories that hold the more delicate  and often unspoken truths of humanity, and society.

Ndoto Ya Samira (Samira’s dream)

Ndoto Ya Samira (Samira’s dream)

In the presence of the director

Direction: Nino Tropiano

 

Synopsis:

The story of Samira, a young woman from Zanzibar, who dreams of starting a family like all her friends, but is also determined to pursue higher education and a career. Throughout the seven years of her life, social pressure and respect for traditions constantly push her to choose one path over the other.

 

Duration: 88 minutes

Year: 2022

Feature-length Documentary Competition

DOMIN Award selection

Country and Language:

Tanzania

Swahili

Subtitled in French and English

Production

Fall Films

Luna Films

Location

Ciné Cambaie

Screening:

07/04 at 6:30 PM

Nino TROPIANO

Nino Tropiano first worked as an actor, director, and freelance photographer in Dublin, where he graduated from the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. After several short and medium-length films, his first feature film, Ndoto ya Samira / Samira’s Dream, was selected in over 60 festivals worldwide and recently won the Best Feature Film award at Babel Film – International Competition for Minority Language Cinema. Nino is currently preparing a new documentary feature (WILDMAN JAZZ), and AN IMPOSSIBLE MOTHER—a fiction feature—is in development.

As noites ainda cheiram a pólvora (The nights still smell of gunpowder)

As noites ainda cheiram a pólvora (The nights still smell of gunpowder)

Direction: Inadelso Cossa

 

Synopsis
Thirty-two years after the civil war in Mozambique, Inadelso Cossa returns to his hometown to explore the remnants of the past. Through conversations with locals and a sensory immersion, he blends blurry memories and altered reality, creating an intimate reflection on collective trauma. In a dreamlike atmosphere, he crafts a poetic work on the legacy of war.

 

Duration: 93 minutes
Year: 2024
Feature-length documentary competition

Country and Language
Mozambique
Portuguese
Subtitled in French and English

Production

16MM FILMES

IDA.IDA

Kaske Film

Location

Ciné Cambaie

Screening
07/04 at 8:40 PM

Inadelso COSSA

Inadelso Cossa is a director, producer, and director of photography, and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since 2020. He is the founder of 16mmFILMES, a production company focused on creative documentaries and feature films. His works address themes of post-colonial memory, post-civil war trauma, silent voices, and collective amnesia in Mozambique. The unofficial history of his country remains at the heart of his cinema, where the director adopts a personal perspective.

Faritra “The zone”

Faritra “The zone”

In the presence of the co-director, Luck Razanajaona.

Directed by: Tovoniaina RASOANAIVO and Luck RAZANAJAONA

 

Synopsis

Two filmmakers visit the juvenile detention wing of the Maison Centrale d’Antanimora in Antananarivo, where about a hundred young boys are incarcerated. There, a cinema workshop comes to life: the detainees are introduced to filmmaking, explore film ideas… and share their stories.

 

Duration: 77 minutes

Year: 2021

Feature-length Documentary Competition

DOMIN Award selection

Country and Language

Madagascar

Malagasy

Subtitled in French and English

Production

Africamadavibe Production

Luck Razanajaona

Herizo Rabary

Location

Ciné Cambaie

Screening

06/04 at 5:30 PM

Tovoniaina RASOANAIVO

Tovoniaina RASOANAIVO has several short films under his belt, which have been showcased in multiple festivals. Currently, he is a trainer at the ONY Project, a cinema hub. ONY is an association founded by Ahélya Randriambolaina & OrelSan, aimed at developing projects in music, video games, 3D animation, and cinema in Madagascar.

Luck RAZANAJAONA

Luck RAZANAJAONA is an award-winning filmmaker, with accolades from prestigious festivals such as FESPACO, the Carthage JCC, Cologne, Madagascar, and the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. He has just released his first feature film, Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story, a project that has been awarded at the Step Fund Luxor, Durban FilmMart, and Cinémart Rotterdam.

Malavoune Tango

Malavoune Tango

In the presence of the director

Direction: Jean-Marc Lacaze

 

Synopsis

In Mayotte, the only French island remaining in the Comoros archipelago, a group of young people breed and raise dogs. Amidst petty tricks and small thefts, Chef, Flamsy, and Mopé seek to emancipate themselves from a Muslim society where their companions are considered impure. These human-animal relationships highlight a Mahoran society torn between Comorian culture and French state culture, in a territory where insecurity and social abuses blend with illegality. From the ghetto to the “malavoune”, the dog emerges as a metaphor for identity wandering.

 

Duration: 55 minutes

Year: 2022

Feature-length documentary Competition

Country and Language

Mayotte

Shimaore

Subtitled in French and English

Production

Les Films de la caravane

Lyon Capitale TV

Location

Ciné Cambaie

Screening

06/04 at 7:20 PM

Jean-Marc Lacaze

Jean-Marc Lacaze’s journey spans both visual arts and audiovisual work. After studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts du Port in Réunion, he obtained his DNSEP from the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille in 2002. He then worked for 8 years in the audiovisual sector before returning to his artistic practice in Réunion and Mayotte, among other places. Malavoune Tango is his first film.

The Leopard’s Tribe

The Leopard’s Tribe

Direction: Miriam CHANDY MENACHERRY

 

Synopsis

The authorities of Mumbai are cutting down thousands of trees to expand the public transport network, threatening a forest where a community of 10,000 indigenous people live. At the forefront, Prakash Bhoir leads a relentless battle to protect this sacred land and the leopard they venerate. In this fight to preserve the “green lungs” of India’s financial capital, he allies with a hip-hop group, receives legal advice, but his biggest support comes from his wife, Pramila, who takes the frontline in a battle with major political stakes. Together, this marginalized couple finds themselves, albeit reluctantly, elevated to leadership, facing floods, fires, and leopard attacks to defend their cause, establishing themselves as figures in the climate struggle in one of the fastest-growing cities in the world.

 

Duration: 40 minutes
Year: 2022
Feature-length documentary competition

DOMIN Award selection

Country and Language

India

Marathi – Hindi – English

Subtitled in French and English

Production

Filament Pictures

Confluence Media

Location
Ciné Cambaie

Screening
06/04 at 4:30 PM

 Miriam Chandy Menacherry

Miriam is a filmmaker committed to creating socially engaged documentaries that have been acclaimed both in India and internationally. She was selected as an emerging Indian talent by BAFTA, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Her award-winning films focus on everyday heroes: From the Shadows, The Leopard’s Tribe, Lyari Notes, The Rat Race, Robot Jockey, Stuntmen of Bollywood, and the seven-part series Back to the Floor.

Farming the Revolution

Farming the Revolution

In the presence of the director

Directed by: Nishtha JAIN, co-directed by Akash BASUMATARI

 

Synopsis

In November 2020, Gurbaz Sangha, a 26-year-old Indian farmer, traveled 400 kilometers on his tractor, from his native Punjab to the outskirts of Delhi. Like him, hundreds of thousands of men and women, from all castes, religions, and generations, joined the capital with one goal: to oppose the agrarian reform imposed by the government of Narendra Modi.

The protesters set up camp at the four “borders”—the critical entry points of Delhi’s ring road. Despite the government’s disdain and increasingly violent police harassment, they stayed, season after season, revealing a diverse, courageous, and incredibly inventive India. After 14 months of an epic struggle, marked by a series of police raids that claimed the lives of 720 of them, the farmers won. Farming the Revolution offers a breathtaking immersion into the heart of the most impressive social and political movement of our time.

 

Duration: 105 minutes
Year: 2023
Feature-length documentary competition

DOMIN Award selection

Country and Language
India
Hindi – Punjabi
Subtitled in French and English

Production

Little Big Story
Raintree Films

Co-produced by Arte France
and Piraya Films

Location

Ciné Cambaie

Screening

04/06 at 2:00 PM

Nishtha JAIN

Nishtha Jain is an award-winning Indian filmmaker, known notably for Gulabi Gang (2012), Lakshmi and Me (2007), City of Photos (2004), and The Golden Thread (2022). Her films intersect with issues of gender, caste, and class. They consistently explore the connection between the personal and the political to reveal mechanisms of domination. Workers and popular movements hold a central place in Nishtha Jain’s cinema.

Akash BASUMATARI

Akash Basumatari has emerged as a rising documentary filmmaker in India, whose work bridges the invisible stories of marginalized communities and the wider world. His filmography includes several short documentary films, weaving a unique style of earthy and meditative exploration of rural communities, nature, culture, and existential themes, always infused with poetry and imagination.

Simin Zetwal

Simin Zetwal

In the presence of the director

Direction: David Constantin

Synopsis
On July 25, 2020, the bulk carrier MV Wakashio runs aground on the reef off the East Coast of Mauritius. Twelve days later, oil spills, causing the worst environmental disaster ever to occur in the region. 

 

Duration: 93 minutes
Year: 2022
Feature Film

Country and language

Mauritius
Mauritian Creole – English
Subtitled in French & English

Production
Cameleon Production
Lithops Films

Location
Stella Matutina

Screening
April 5th at 6:30 PM

DAVID CONSTANTIN

David Constantin is a Mauritian writer-director and producer. Whether documentary or fiction, David’s films focus on the deep transformations of society, using Mauritius as a small laboratory of the world, exploring their impact on human relationships.

Along with other producers and directors from the Indian Ocean, David is actively involved in the development of a local cinematography with a unique Indo-Oceanic identity. He is the founder of the Association Porteurs d’Images and the Ile Courts Festival, the International Short Film Festival of Mauritius. David also has another artistic activity: painting, through which he attempts to address the same themes as in his films.

Pie dan lo

Pie dan lo

Direction: Kim Yip Tong

 

Synopsis

On July 25, 2020, the bulk carrier MV Wakashio ran aground on the reef off the east coast of Mauritius. Twelve days later, oil spilled, causing the worst ecological disaster ever recorded in the region.

 

Duration: 13 minutes

Year: 2024

Short Fiction Film

Country and Language

Mauritius

Mauritian Creole – English – French

Subtitled in French & English

Production

Gao Shan Pictures

Gao Shan Animation Studio

We Film

Location

Stella Matutina

Date and time

05/04 at 6:30 PM

KIM YIP TONG

Multidisciplinary artist from Mauritius. She studied textile design in Paris and London, earning a master’s degree in Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art in London in 2017. Her current research focuses on natural history and postcolonial identity. Her practice includes kinetic installations, video mapping, painting, artistic direction, and music video production. She has created two planetarium animations, Lucent Matter (2016) and Anthozoa (2017), showcased at international festivals. Her work has been exhibited in various countries, and she is a professor of contemporary art at the ENSA Nantes Maurice School of Architecture.

Les frères Vergès, frondeurs de la République

Les frères Vergès, frondeurs de la République

Direction: Gilles Cayatte

 

Synopsis:

This is the story of two brothers from Réunion Island who were thrust into the sweeping tide of 20th-century history. Jacques Vergès, the lawyer, and Paul Vergès, the politician—near-twins in their anti-colonial struggle—were enigmatic, feared, admired, and despised. They lived their lives like an idealistic adventure novel. From clandestine networks to revolutionary violence, both built their legacies on the altar of the anti-colonial fight, sometimes in the shadows of the Republic’s prisons. This is the intertwined account of two extraordinary brothers—so alike yet so different—where one’s militant commitment served as a compass, while the other’s fame became a lightning rod.

 

Duration: 52 minutes
Year: 2023
Feature Documentary

Country and Language

Réunion Island

French & Réunion Creole

Production

13 prods

Bis Repetita

Location

Lespas Culturel Leconte de Lisle

Date and Time

01/04 at 7:00 PM

Gilles Cayatte

gilles cayatte

Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1962, Gilles Cayatte was first a cinephile drawn to filmmaking but was quickly overtaken by reality. He has worked in nearly every role in television—whether in order or chaos—as a chief editor (for a long time), cameraman (a little), journalist (very little), producer, and finally, director. His work is eclectic, much like his tastes, spanning from aeronautics to sports, sociology to politics, and to exposing injustice, wars, and repression. Nearly all his films, from The Novel of a Liar to The Spring of the Armenians, have been praised by the press, with numerous awards marking his career. Having directed around fifty documentaries worldwide, he is now also turning his attention to fiction. Elected to the board of directors of Scam, he is actively engaged in advocating for audiovisual creators.

The FIFOI aims to highlight the cinematic diversity of our regions.

Program

Opening Ceremony

April 5th, Stella Matutina, 6:30pm

Feature-length documentary competition : 1st part

April 6th, Ciné Cambaie, 2pm

Feature-length documentary competition : 2nd part

April 7, Ciné Cambaie, 6:30pm

Short film competition

April 8th, Ciné Cambaie 6:30pm

Awards and closing ceremony

April 9th, Stella Matutina, 6:30pm

The Film Market

April 6th to 9th, Hôtel Le Récif

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