A $5,000 grant is awarded to the Malian filmmaker Ousmane Samassékou for his project Les témoins de l’ombre

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

On the border of the Mali-Algerian desert (Sahara), in the middle of the Sahel, a house stands as the only point of fall and reconstruction for many migrants on their way to Eldorado, or on their difficult return home with their families, painting an unhoped-for picture for many migrants who wander between life and death, hope and fatality.

The film’s plot will be punctuated by an often more abstract, constructed and poetic account of wandering, embodied by the desert, which swallows and spits out its visitors, bringing hope but also drama.