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Zaho Zay
Zaho Zay
Madagascar, Austria, France | 2020 | 79 min | Documentary
Director: Maéva Ranaïvojaona e Georg Tiller
Screenplay: Maéva Ranaïvojaona e Georg Tiller
Cinematography: Georg Tiller
Cast: Eugene Raphaël, Michelle Eva, Ranaïvojaona
Synopsis
A young woman works as a guard in a hopelessly overcrowded prison in Madagascar. She passes the time daydreaming about her father, a murderer who abandoned her as a child after killing his own brother. In her imagination, her father becomes a mythical killer, wandering the countryside and rolling enchanted dice to decide the fate of his victims. Secretly, she yearns for the day he might turn up amongst the prisoners. When a new inmate arrives claiming to know her father, the young woman‘s fantasies begin to turn to nightmares.
About the directors
Maéva Ranaivojaona is a French-Malagasy writer, director and producer living and working in Paris and Vienna. Her short films have been shown and awarded at international film festivals including the Rotterdam Film festival and the Cannes Short Film Corner. In 2016 she was invited as a producer to the FIDLab in Marseille where she was awarded the Air France prize. In 2017 she opened the Paris office of Subobscura Films together with Austrian producer and director Georg Tiller. Zaho Zay is her first feature film.
Georg Tiller was born in Vienna, Austria. After unfinished philosophy and theater studies, he studied film and television studies with Harun Farocki and film directing and cinematography with Michael Haneke and Christian Berger. As the head of the production company Subobscura Films, based in Vienna and Paris, he has produced and directed several award-winning feature films, documentaries and experimental works.