Zaho Zay
by Maéva Ranaivojaona & Georg Tiller
2020, Madagascar, 78 mins
4:15 PM on Sept 21, 2024
About the movie
English: A young woman works as a guard in a hopelessly overcrowded prison in Madagascar. She passes the =me daydreaming about her father, a murderer who abandoned her as a child aAer killing his own brother. In her imagina=on, her father becomes a mythical killer, wandering the countryside and rolling enchanted dice to decide the fate of his vic=ms. 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.
Français: Une jeune femme travaille comme gardienne dans une prison désespérément surpeuplée à Madagascar. Elle passe le temps à rêvasser de son père, un meurtrier qui l’a abandonnée enfant après avoir tué son propre frère. Dans son imagina=on, son père devient un tueur mythique, errant à travers la campagne et lançant des dés enchantés pour décider du sort de ses vic=mes. En secret, elle aspire au jour où il pourrait apparaître parmi les prisonniers. Lorsqu’un nouveau détenu arrive prétendant connaître son père, les fantasmes de la jeune femme commencent à se transformer en cauchemars.
About the directors
Georg Tiller
Georg Tiller was borin in 1981 in Vienna, Austria. After unfinished studies in philosophy and theater, Georg Tiller studied film and television with Harun Farocki at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, film directing and cinematography with Michael Haneke and Christian Berger at the Film Academy Vienna, and film directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). He has worked as a freelance artist and filmmaker, a producer of his own work and that of friends, and with the artist collective naivsuper. He worked as a Senior Partner at the production company Mengamuk Films in Germany, and he is currently Managing Director of Subobscura Films in Vienna, Austria and Paris, France. He has written, directed and produced several feature films that have been shown and awarded at world-renowned festivals including the Berlinale, the IFF Rotterdam, and the Viennale Film Festival. As a visual artist he has also exhibited work at the Bienal de Såo Paulo, the Centre Georges Pompidou, and the Luleå Vinter Bienal, among many other places.
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