The film traces the destiny of Kapila, an outcast child who had been deemed by his fellow villagers to have supernatural powers of destruction, because of the timing of his solar eclipse birth.
Cinematography
Madagascar's landscapes shot like living mythology.
Direction
Rajaonarivelo's patient, unflinching gaze at human cruelty.
Director
Raymond Rajaonarivelo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of only a handful of Malagasy films to reach international audiences, it preserves oral storytelling traditions nearly lost to colonial erasure.
Rajaonarivelo cast non-professional actors from the actual villages where eclipse superstitions persist, blurring fiction and lived experience.
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