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.
- Runtime27 minutes
- LanguageMalagasy, Comorian, French
- CountryBelgium, France, Qatar
- PremiereNorth America
- Social Media
- DirectorHachimiya Ahamada
- ScreenwriterHachimiya AHAMADA
- ProducerManon COUBIA, Jeremy van der HAEGEN, Nicolas RINCON GILLES, Charlotte VINCENT
- Executive ProducerFranco CLERC DAMY
- CastSoeuf ELBADAWI, Hatia ALI, Moindjoumoi AHMED ASSOUMANI, T. Syldio CRISTOPHE, Habib Cesar MARSON
- CinematographerCharlotte MICHEL
- EditorThibaut VERLY
- Sound DesignLiza THIENNOT
- MusicNawal MLANAO
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.
- Runtime27 minutes
- LanguageMalagasy, Comorian, French
- CountryBelgium, France, Qatar
- PremiereNorth America
- Social Media
- DirectorHachimiya Ahamada
- ScreenwriterHachimiya AHAMADA
- ProducerManon COUBIA, Jeremy van der HAEGEN, Nicolas RINCON GILLES, Charlotte VINCENT
- Executive ProducerFranco CLERC DAMY
- CastSoeuf ELBADAWI, Hatia ALI, Moindjoumoi AHMED ASSOUMANI, T. Syldio CRISTOPHE, Habib Cesar MARSON
- CinematographerCharlotte MICHEL
- EditorThibaut VERLY
- Sound DesignLiza THIENNOT
- MusicNawal MLANAO