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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 sure never to leave Guiana. Using the cooking of this dish as starting point, the film explores the multicultural reality that composes this French overseas region. American Indians, Europeans, Slave descendants, Laotians, Chinese, Brazilian, Surinamese, tell us how they are bringing new flavours to the Guianese stew of identities.

They were called fahavalo - enemies - because they rebelled in 1947 against French colonial authorities in Madagascar. Today, filmmaker Marie-Clémence Andriamonta Paes takes us where the events took place, on a journey to meet the last witnesses. They tell us about their fight for independence and their long months of resistance in the jungle, armed only with spears and talismans. When Malagasy soldiers came back from WWII, they expected de Gaulle to give them independence. Instead, they were asked to return to their indigenous status and provide unfree labour in coffee plantations. They soon organized an uprising, harshly repressed by the French and their heavy weaponry. They resisted for months though, with the help of shamans and their magic formulas. Through the mesmerizing music of Régis Gizavo, the dialogue between never seen archive footage from the 40's and heartfelt testimonies makes us travel into a forgotten past. A journey into history, filmed today, along the railways, through the forest, from the Highlands to the East coast of Madagascar.

Dreaming of a better life, migrants from the Northeast of Brazil speak about the city of São Paulo, and sing it in prose, songs, stories and multiple sounds.

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

Shot in Lapland and Brazil, this film reveals Man's relationship with nature, from the indigenous people point of view. Listen to the oral culture of the Saamis from the Arctic and the Fulni-ôs from Brazil. Beyond the ice-fields, beyond the trees, the countries, the climates, the skins - the same intuition : the whole future is in their hands.

In the wings of the opera "Maraina", the film combines history and oral memory, to recount in music the Europeans' first contacts with the natives of the Indian Ocean islands, made of violence and love stories. Between the XVIIth century and today, this historical road movie follows the cast's fantastic journey to the place where it all began - Fort-Dauphin, in southern Madagascar.