A Documentary Film – coming in 2016
This is a film about the PEOPLE living in the Alaotra region in Madagascar, and about the CHANGES in their social and natural environments.
This is also a film about the BANDRO, the Alaotra gentle lemur (Hapalemur alaotrensis), that can survive only in the marshes surrounding the lake, and that is facing extinction due to these changes.
This is also a film about RESEARCH; on how to tackle complexity and grasp change. The AlaReLa (Alaotra Resilience Landscape) project aims to understand the various livelihood strategies of people like farmers or fishers, who use the lake, the marshes, and the land surrounding the lake to produce food and charcoal and other sources of energy. The scientist’s goal in the AlaReLa project is to engage with and inform decision makers responsible for the governance of such complex socio-ecological systems as the Alaotra.
Follow us to some of Madagascar’s hidden places – far away from the touristic centers – to find out what can happen when derivates of our modern times seep slowly into traditional ways of living. What can be done to strike a balance between yesterday and tomorrow; between conservation and development?

A film by Julia Dordel & Guido Tölke
Director of photography: Guido Tölke
Produced by Dorcon Film
Executive producer: Patrick Waeber, Madagascar Wildlife Conservation; ETH Zurich
Supported by Indian Ocean e-Ink, nordmedia – Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH, Alaotra Resilience Landscape project (AlaReLa) & Madagascar Wildlife Conservation (MWC)

For more information see:
Dorcon Film: http://www.dorconfilm.com
AlaReLa project: http://www.fordev.ethz.ch/research/re…
Madagascar Wildlife Conservation: http://www.madagascar-wildlife-conser…
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