Mangabangabaka
by Michaël ANDRIANALY
90 min - HD
In coproduction with Les Films de la Pluie, Imasoa Films and Pilumpiku Production.
Production assistance of Région Bretagne and OIF
SYNOPSIS
Toamasina, a port city on Madagascar's east coast. From adolescence, Sonia learned to bend her dignity to the weight of necessity. Her body was her only asset, the nights her only horizon. Thirty years spent walking the streets, selling fragments of herself to feed her children.
But with age, fatigue set in, and so did fear. Worried about her health and concerned for the future of her two teenagers, Sonia decided to leave prostitution and become a seamstress. She bought a sewing machine. The first orders arrived. But the financial needs became ever more pressing, the debts piled up…
Torn between the desire for a new beginning and the fear of sinking, Sonia fought alone.
Each stitch was a scar that closed… and a new wound that opened.
THE DIRECTOR
Michaël Andrianaly was born in July 1978. He is a director, cinematographer, and photographer. He lives in Toamasina, on the east coast of Madagascar.
After his first short documentary, Todisoa and the Black Stones, made as part of a workshop in 2013, he directed two films selected for numerous international festivals: Njaka Kely (2015) and Nofinofy (2019) (which won two awards: Cinéma du Réel and Étoile de la Scam). Gwetto, his fourth documentary, was selected for Visions du Réel in April 2023 and subsequently broadcast on the Tënk and TV5Mondeplus platforms.
In 2024, Michaël Andrianaly received the True Vision Award for his body of work at the True/False Film Fest in Columbia. Nofinofy and his new feature-length documentary project, Mande ny mande, were both recipients of the Scam's Brouillon d’un rêve grant.
Through a social cinema approach close to his heart, Michaël Andrianaly explores the everyday concerns of the Malagasy people and seeks to tell, through his films, the upheavals and major issues facing his island.
