Laterit Productions Movies

A small poor community called Javé is under threat of being flooded by a new dam that is being built, and the only way to prevent this is to...

Venerable storytellers recount for the camera and their listeners the founding myths of Malagasy culture.

The six most famous Malagasy musicians unite to raise awareness about their island’s fragile and unique environment. An intimate journey at the...

In 1462, the first African slaves were settled on the island of Cape Verde brought by the Portuguese colons. It is supposed that they were the first...

Mahaleos voices and music have accompanied the people of Madagascar ever since the collapse of the colonial regime. Yet, even after 30 years of...

Records the sights and sounds of the many extraordinary street musicians from the Northeast of Brazil whose music and lyrics tell the stories of...

Haingo, a young single mother from Madagascar, struggles to pay the school fees of her six-year old daughter. A dance company proposes her a contract...

In the wings of the opera "Maraina", the film combines history and oral memory, to recount in music the first contacts between the natives in the...

The awara soup is a kind of stew containing all sorts of ingredients from French Guiana. People say that if someone eats that dish on Easter, he is...

An amazing journey back in time to Morocco in the seventies, through a colorful collage of jazz music, posters and magazine covers, archive footage...