Pop star Madonna went back home to Michigan to present her documentary about Malawi orphans at the Traverse City film festival.

The event was co-founded by filmmaker, author and fellow Michigan native Michael Moore, who met Madonna at the film’s screening.

Hundreds of excited fans cheered as Madonna, dressed in a black dress and wearing sunglasses, stepped out of a black sport car in front of the State Theatre and hugged Moore, who was less elegant, wearing his usual cap and T-shirt.

Madonna, who was raised in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills, said she was delighted to bring her movie “to a place that I feel familiar.”

"There's something poetic about coming back to the place where I used to come for holidays — camping trips with my dad and stepmother and my very large family.”

She also reminded the 540 people in the crowd that, even though she left Michigan, she was still the same girl she used to be.

The singer was accompanied by her 11-year daughter Lourdes and the film’s director, Nathan Rissman. Madonna’s husband, Guy Ritchie, did not attend the event.

Madonna produced, wrote and narrated the documentary “I Am Because We Are,” which is about the struggle of children who remained orphans because of AIDS in Malawi, where she and Ritchie adopted a child, David, in 2006.

Michael Moore talked warmly about the 49-year-old pop star, saying she had “such an incredible heart and such a generous spirit.”

“She does so much out of the glare of the lights to make the world a better place,” he added.

Madonna did not hesitate to return the beautiful words, calling Moore a model that people should look up to. She praised his courage and his way of standing up for things and thinking “out of the box.”

“And we need, and I need, Michael Moore in my life,” she ended her praise.