Dreams of Dust
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival • Drama
Mocktar, a Nigerien peasant, comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in Northeast Burkina Faso, Africa, where he hopes to forget the past that haunts him. In Essakane, he quickly finds out, the gold rush ended twenty years before, and the inhabitants of this strange timeless wasteland manage to exist simply from force of habit. The beautiful Coumba, however, is still courageously struggling to raise her daughter after the death of her family. Mocktar will soon be fighting not only to survive, but also to provide a better future for this mother and her child.
DIRECTED BY LAURENT SALGUES
BURKINA FASO, CANADA AND FRANCE | 2003 | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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