Fonja

Fonja is a film made by the youngest and possibly most exceptional filmcrew of Madagascar. Over the course of a fiilmproduction workshop, ten detainees from the male youth prison of Madagascar’s largest detention center in the capital Antananarivo discover the camera for the first time. Over the course of the four-month workshop the minors explore the camera as a tool to observe, to document, to play around, to vizualize their own ideas, thoughts and to rediscover and learn about their supposedly familiar surrounding through the lens of a camera. A journey into the daily life of the minors, shaped by their struggles and dreams and their great spirit to invest all of their creativity, energy and inspiration to make their own film.