EIGHT BONES

A foreigner filmmaker, attracted by a funeral ceremony where the bones of ancestors are exhumed, embarks on a journey through Madagascar with a Malagasy family to participate in the ceremony. A journey to confront her beliefs, to conjure up the dead and finally to surrender to the dizziness of being alive.

Isadora Valentina Nada Providencia. (Colombia, 1973). She is a journalist, audiovisual producer and painter . She has lived, traveled and worked in several countries around the world. She has participated in development projects and film production with several international organizations, notably in Africa and France. From an early age, she has explored images through photography, cinema and drawing. From 2012 to 2014 she lived in Madagascar where she produced several radio shows and social and institutional films for French and local NGOs. It was in Madagascar that she shoot Eight Bones, her first documentary.