Alsacian Manouches

 

2025 | Hakob Melkonyan | documentary | 43 & 52 min

France, Germany

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Synopsis

Tosca, 18, is a first-year student at the Strasbourg Conservatory. She is preparing to leave the family cocoon to achieve her dream: becoming an opera singer. Maya, 34, is a blind piano accordionist. She also leads a choir for sighted and blind people. Maya and Tosca are cousins from a Manouche family Through them, we meet this community established in Alsace for centuries, giving the voice to the young generation of women.
 

Author & Director: Hakob Melkonyan

Co-writer: Laurence Uebersfeld
Editing: Matthias Weber

Music: Frédéric « Engé » Helmstetter
Co-production: LuFilms  (France), Ana Films (France), SWR Arte (Germany)

Partners: Région Grand-Est, l'Eurométropole de Strasbourg, CNC and Procirep-Angoa