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Suffering through the worst of the violence, and surviving to tell the tale. Memorializing the people and circumstances that brought us into our present.


Content warning: Discussion and depictions of colonial violence (Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)), Discussion and graphic recreations of ethnic cleansing (Zanatany, When Soulless Shrouds Whisper)


Accessibility: Closed captions available


Thank you to our screening partner: Twelve Gates Arts


Watch the Q&A conversation with Suneil Sanzgiri, director of Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?) here.

Majunga, Madagascar, December 1976. A wind of revolt sweeps through the city. Ali, a second-in-command in a bookbinding workshop, is raising his two daughters alone. One morning, before going to work, he witnesses what seems to be a simple neighborhood quarrel.

  • Runtime
    27 minutes
  • Language
    Malagasy, Comorian, French
  • Country
    Belgium, France, Qatar
  • Premiere
    North America
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  • Director
    Hachimiya Ahamada
  • Screenwriter
    Hachimiya AHAMADA
  • Producer
    Manon COUBIA, Jeremy van der HAEGEN, Nicolas RINCON GILLES, Charlotte VINCENT
  • Executive Producer
    Franco CLERC DAMY
  • Cast
    Soeuf ELBADAWI, Hatia ALI, Moindjoumoi AHMED ASSOUMANI, T. Syldio CRISTOPHE, Habib Cesar MARSON
  • Cinematographer
    Charlotte MICHEL
  • Editor
    Thibaut VERLY
  • Sound Design
    Liza THIENNOT
  • Music
    Nawal MLANAO