Chaque trait de pinceau de Malagatena poursuit le fil d’une longue histoire. Des dessins étranges en noir et blanc, couverts de petits personnages au milieu d’animaux et de grandes toiles éclatantes de couleurs africaines peuplées de monstres enchevêtrés.
Il s’amuse de la peur des enfants qui regardent les dessins et dit: « Un jour j’expliquerai tout cela ».
Malagatana était l’un des plus importants peintres magiques du Continent Africain.
Il vient de disparaître en janvier 2011


Realisatrice: Isabel Noronha

PRIX
20th African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival – Europa Award

FESTIVALS
Tarifa Film Festival – Spain;
DOK Leipzig 2009 – Germany;
AsoloArtFilmFestival – Italy;
Women of the Sun Film Festival – South Africa

Distributeur: MARFILMES (www.marfilmes.com)

Each of Malangatana’s brushstrokes is a new line of a long life story. Weird sketches in black and white, full of little people in the middle of animals, and paintings with explosive African colours, describe the memories of the painter. He laughs at the children’s scared faces staring at the drawings and says, “One day I will explain all this”. Throughout his living memories and this promise we are taken on a journey into the African world, the present and the past. Malangatana is one of the most important painters of the African Continent.

Directed by Isabel Noronha | Mozambique 2007 | 90 min.

FESTIVALS
Tarifa Film Festival – Spain;
DOK Leipzig 2009 – Germany;
AsoloArtFilmFestival – Italy;
Women of the Sun Film Festival – South Africa

Distributor: MARFILMES (www.marfilmes.com)