A third $10,000 grant was awarded to the Nigerien filmmaker Amina Weira for her project L’embouchure des rêves (The Confluence of Dreams)

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Following in the footsteps of Hawad, a Tuareg poet, and Fatima, the “Mother Teresa on a motorcycle” who helps migrant children, the filmmaker wanders the city of Agadez, meeting the people who live there. Located in the Aïr desert of nothern Niger, the town has always been an important crossroads of trade and transit, from the ancient caravans that linked North Africa to Black Africa to tourist excursions in the desert. For centuries, Europe’s frontier was on Agadez’ doorstep, however the city’s economy that once relied on this freedom of movement has now collapsed. Nomads, migrants, tourists and adventurers all share a common denominator: restricted mobility now forced to reinvent itself.