Director: Tariq Syed
Country: United Arab Emirates
Runtime: 4x25’ or 1x53’
Language: English
Year: 2010
Madagascar, the fourth largest island in the world, possesses in its ravines spectacular landscapes, festive communities, vantage points of a land in transition, an odyssey for those who wish to experience its people steeped in a time warp. From celebrations of the ancestral personalities for whom sacrifices are performed on a full moon, to the nature’s canvas of the terrain that mixes with the sounds of the fisherwomen dancing along its shores, to the rapidly changing lives of people. From beautiful chameleons and lemurs to the loud music eminating from discos in modern cities, Madagascar’s travelogue is an ode to its diversity, beguiling history, society, geography and traditions.
We’ll journey from Antananarivo, the capital in the highlands, to Isle Saint Marie in the North, and West in Majunga, to the south in Ihosy and Isalo and down south to Tulear. We’ll become involved with the lives of dream weavers, magicians of wood carving, popular celebrations, wildlife animals, farms, dances and Malagasy film making, Madagascar lives in a multiple time warp, the progressive fast modernizing cities, a melting pot of international visitors, tourists who come to experience its remaining endemic wild life, flora and fauna.
