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MONA PETRI PASQUALE ALEARDI TAREK BOUARRARA
JEAN-LUC BIDEAU BRUNO GANZ
SYNOPSIS
A young couple, Olivier and Elena, traveling to Timbuktu suddenly find themselves stranded in the middle of the desert when their truck breaks down. Though they are supposed to deliver the truck to Mali, they are forced to stay in a bustling nearby oasis where, little by little, their lives begin to part: he, more and more involved with the inevitable complications of repairing the truck; and she, bored and curious, gradually becoming part of the local lives of the courageous and determined women who live there. The epicenter of exchanges in this little world is the call shop owned by a tall fascinating Berber Tuareg. He is to play a crucial role in Elena’s “awakening”. The story between Olivier and Elena becomes a metaphor of precarious couple relationships. A dialogue between two very different worlds. A beautiful message of hope and compatibility in our times.
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MOHAMMED SOUDANI
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
FEATURES (AS DIRECTOR)
2007 "Roulette", 94’, Beta Digital, 16:9 (fiction feature) an Amka Films / TSI production
In Competition Soleure Film Festival, Switzerland 2008 – In International Competition FIPA, Biarritz 2008 –Innsbrück Film Festival 2008
2002 "Guerre sans images" ("Algérie, je sais que tu sais"), 90’, 35 mm, (feature length documentary), Swiss/French production
- Locarno International Film Festival (Switzerland) 2002 (Critics’ Week/In Competition)
- Namur International Film Festival (Belgium), 2002 (In Competition, Documentary section)
- Amiens International Film Festival, (France), 2002
- Milan International Filmmakers’ Festival (Italy) 2002 (In Competition)
- Festival d’Automne (Paris, France) 2002 (selected by "Les Cahiers du Cinéma")
- Göteborg Festival, 2003
- Festival du Cinéma du Sud (Marseilles), 2002
- Marché Fipa (Biarritz), 2003
- Milan Festival, 2003
- Las Palmas Film Festival, 2003
- Black Movie Festival (Geneva), 2003
- Mediterranean Award Festival (Syracuse) 2003
- Views of Africa Festival (Montreal) 2003
- Centre Méditerranéen de la Photographie (Bastia) 2003
- Freiburg Film Festival, 2003
- Innsbruck Film Festival, 2003
- Karlovy Vary Film Festival, 2003 (In Competition)
- Biennale des Cinémas Arabes, 2004 (Institut du Monde Arabe), In Competition
- Liban Film Festival, 2004 (In Competition)
- Amsterdam, under the auspices of the Swiss Embassy, Noorderlicht Photofestival
- Frankfurt am Main, Deutsches-Filmmuseum
- Film Festival del Cine Africa e Mediterraneo (Barcelona)
- Innsbruck International Film Festival
- Algeria, 50th Anniversary of the Algerian Revolution in Algiers
- Doc Festival "Sole e Luna” (Palermo, Italy)
- Coups de coeur de la Biennale du Cinéma Arabe (Fez), 2006
1998 " Les diseurs d’histoires", 97’, Betacam Digital, (feature length documentary) – Swiss/Italian co-production: Locarno International Film Festival (Switzerland), 1998 (Cinéastes du Présent / Cinéma-Cinémas section)
1997 "Waalo Fendo" ("Là où la terre gèle"), 70’, 16mm, 1997 (feature length docu-fiction):
- "Best Swiss Film" Award 1998
- Official Prize for Best First Film - Milan Film Festival (Italy)
- 1998 Quality Award - Federal Bureau of Culture (Switzerland)
- Nomination International Human Rights Festival Award (Göteborg)
- United Nations Award - the Pan-African Festival FESPACO 1999
DOCUMENTARIES FOR TELEVISION (AS DIRECTOR)
"Femmes et Islam en Occident" documentary 52’, 2008
" Le griot sans papiers" documentary 52’ (currently filming)
"Dietro cruda bellezza" documentary 52’ (currently filming)
"Rosso porpora", 52’, 2007
"N’Guyen, un apolide passe-partout", 52’, 2006
"Dreams", 15’, Eurovision, broadcast on 24 channels, TV EBU, 2005
"Domenica, che bella domenica", 52’, 2004
"Kart 26", 15’, Eurovision, broadcast on 16 channels, TV EBU, 2003
"Cercando Brunilda", 52’, 2003
"La nuova fattoria", 52’, 2003
"Ristretti orizzonti", 52’, 2003
" M’invento l’Oriente", 52’, 2002
" La Sciüru Band", 52’, 2002
"Vivere", 52’, 2000
"I figli della mela", 52’, 2000
"Gente di lago" ("Sur le Lac Majeur"), 52’, 2000
"Il miracolo dei miracoli", 60’, 2000
" Polvere e gloria" (on African football players), 52’, 1998
"Hommage", 52’, Betacam SP
"Murales", 52’, Betacam SP
"Ciao !" six documentaries each on a Swiss city, 1996
"Cinéma et le corps" for the 100th Anniversary of Cinema, 50’, 1995
"Cinéma et la bouffe" for the 100th Anniversary of Cinema, 50’, 1995
"Oeil Cinéma" for the 100th Anniversary of Cinema, 50’, 1995
"Cinéma et la machine" for the 100th Anniversary of Cinema, 50’, 1995
"World Top Model Lugano" ’95", 50’, 1995
"La Femme et l’Islam en Algérie", 20’, 1994
"A nous deux Europe", 18’ (on location in Africa), 1992
"Silence on Développe", 15’ (encounter with Jean-Marie Adjaffi, Ivory Coast)
"Yiribakro, bois sacré", 26’, 16 mm, co-production with RTI, Ivory Coast TV, 1990
Nomination for "12 Best European Documentaries", MIP TV Cannes, 1990
"Abidjan, ville de contrastes", 26’, 16 mm, co-production with RTI, Ivory Coast TV, 1990
"Nawa, l’homme et l’eau", 26’, 16mm, co-production with RTI, Ivory Coast TV
Ethnographic Festival Award (Milan, Italy), 1989
"Paris appelle Alger", 20’, 1988
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