Vents de sable, femmes de roc
Synopsis
In the extreme southern Sahara, in Niger, live the Toubou people. The life of these nomadic bergers in this harsh desert obeys simple and immutable rituals. The men are camel drivers and the women stay at home. But each year, everything changes for the Toubou women with the departure of the caravan. From the oldest to the youngest, the women of the tribe undertake a 4-month journey more than 900 miles long across the Sahara, putting up with heat, sand and sandstorms, to go and pick dates and sell them in the "city." Despite fatigue and numerous dangers, for these women, this epic journey is also a period of freedom and the key to their economic independence.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Liaison Cinématographique
- Foreign production companies : Entre Chien et Loup, Lotus Film
- Film exports/foreign sales : Playtime
- French distribution : Eurozoom
- News agency (France) : Les Piquantes
Full credits (12)
- Executive Producer : Sébastien Delloye
- Assistant director : Anne-Françoise Leleux
- Foreign producers : Diana Elbaum, Erich Lackner
- Sound Recordist : Yunus Acar
- Screenwriter : Nathalie Borgers
- Director of Photography : Jean-Paul Meurisse
- Production Manager : Christoph Gretzmacher
- Press Attachés (film) : Alexandra Faussier, Florence Alexandre
- Editor : Dieter Pichler
- Sound Editor : Gilles Laurent
- Music Composer : Thierry Zaboitzeff
- Sound Mixer : Alek Goosse
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Coproducer countries : France, Austria, Belgium
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (France, Austria, Belgium)
- Production year : 2008
- French release : 09/03/2011
- Runtime : 1 h 30 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 116.972
- Visa issue date : 07/01/2010
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
- Rating restrictions : None
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