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A young woman works as a guard in a hopelessly overcrowded prison in Madagascar. She passes the time daydreaming about her father, a murderer who abandoned her as a child after killing his own brother. In her imagination, her father becomes a mythical killer, wandering the countryside and rolling enchanted dice to decide the fate of his victims. Secretly, she yearns for the day he might turn up amongst the prisoners. When a new inmate arrives claiming to know her father, the young woman’s fantasies begin to turn to nightmares.

Maéva Ranaïvojaona is a French filmmaker with Malagasy origins. She graduated from the National Fine Art Academy of Dijon and Bourges, France. After couple of years working as an artist’s assistant ( among them Ernesto Neto?—?Brazil, and Kristina Solomoukha?—?France ), she worked as a first director’s assistant beside young filmmakers in Paris and Berlin. She wrote, produced and directed two short films, that have been shown and awarded at several international film festivals among them the International Film Festival Rotterdam and Cannes Film Festival. Since 2017 Maéva Ranaïvojaona works as a screenwriter, filmmaker and producer at Subobscura Films company. She currently lives and works in Paris and Vienna. After unfinished studies in philosophy and theater, Georg Tiller studied film and television with Harun Farocki at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, film directing and cinematography with Michael Haneke and Christian Berger at the Film Academy Vienna, and film directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). He has worked as a freelance artist and filmmaker, a producer of his own work and that of friends, and with the artist collective naivsuper. He worked as a Senior Partner at the production company Mengamuk Films in Germany, and he is currently Managing Director of Subobscura Films in Vienna, Austria and Paris, France. His films have been shown and awarded at world-renowned festivals including the Berlinale, the IFF Rotterdam, and the Viennale Film Festival. He has also exhibited work at the Bienal de Såo Paulo, the Centre Georges Pompidou, and the Luleå Vinter Bienal, among many other places.