Le Barrage – KFDA
- ORIGINAL LANGUAGE AR
- SUBTITLES FR
- COUNTRY Soudan
- 2022
- Duration 81
- Prices 9.80 €, 7.80 €, 7.00 €, 6.50 €
- Moderator ticket Art. 27, Ticket Last Minute
- Abonnement Carte 5 places Galeries, UGC Unlimited, Cineville Pass
Synopsis
Merowe Dam in North Sudan. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly wanders off into the desert to erect a mysterious construction made of mud. Despite a disturbing wound in his lower back that seems to be eating away at his skin, he continues his labor day after day. While the Sudanese people rise to claim their freedom, his mud creation starts slowly to take a life of its own.
Synopsis
Merowe Dam in North Sudan. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly wanders off into the desert to erect a mysterious construction made of mud. Despite a disturbing wound in his lower back that seems to be eating away at his skin, he continues his labor day after day. While the Sudanese people rise to claim their freedom, his mud creation starts slowly to take a life of its own.
From Apichatpong Weerasethakul to Alice Diop to Ali Cherri, this edition of the festival is marked by several artists who come from cinema or who—coming from the visual arts—have produced films. In the weeks leading up to the festival, Cinema Galeries is organising a retrospective of some of their films, a way to revisit or to delve into their poetics in anticipation of the new productions they will present at the festival.
