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Ivanoel, photographer, shows you and tells you about the Kéré. Famine in Madagascar. Journey to the south of Madagascar A film by Jean-François Tuso With Ivanoel Barreto, photographer Produced by Franck Courvoisier How to photograph distress, misery, misfortune? These are the questions that Ivanoel Barreto asks himself on the road that takes him to the south of Madagascar. He decided to cover an event that has had little coverage in our Western media, the Kéré. The Kéré is the famine that has been raging for several years in the south of the country and which is considered the first famine due to global warming in Madagascar. For Ivanoel, undertaking this journey to produce this photo-reportage is also a quest for self. What perspective can he, as a European, take on such a tragedy? How can we photograph the consequences of global warming, the victims and also perhaps the hopes of this suffering population? The journey that Ivanoel undertakes will take him from Paris to Tananarive and to Ambovombe in the south of the red island. In Paris, meetings with a gallery owner, his partner or his goddaughter of Malagasy origin, will enlighten us on his motivations and his links with the big island. Links that led him to undertake this journey. Indeed, Ivanoel grew up in a city in the east of Paris with two friends, Eric and Patrick, two brothers of Malagasy origin. Ivanoel, of Portuguese nationality, is also uprooted, he will make Nène, the Malagasy grandmother of Patrick and Eric, his grandmother of heart, who is for him one of the driving forces behind his coming to the island. During a rugby training session with the Petits Pères club, the players talk about the trip they made in 2012 to the island, during which they faced two local teams. From the archives, we will discover in advance the faces, the colors, the atmospheres and a younger Ivanoel. Arriving in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, a meeting with Manda, the logistics manager of ACF, allows Ivanoel to understand the journey he is undertaking towards the south. Manda takes the opportunity to make a security point, it is the first time that we will hear about the Dahalo, an ethnic group that sows terror on the roads of Mada, in particular the national 13, which has a very bad reputation.