The Last Shelter
Synopsis
The Malian city of Gao has for decades been a peaceful haven for African travellers. Here, on the edge of the Sahel desert, lies the House of Migrants, which is the temporary home for thousands of people every year. The hopeful ones, who are on their way to Europe. And those whose luck ran out and who are now on their way back to their hometowns and families. The Malian documentary filmmaker Ousmane Samassekou listens to two young girls and a middle-aged woman lying in a small room and exchanging dreams and stories. Elsewhere in the house, young men are watching wrestling on TV. Samassekou’s attentive camera frames the faces, the voices and their stories in a uniquely beautiful and humane film about no longer having a home once you have set off. But the atmosphere in the house itself expresses the melancholy of exile through calm and sensual images. All around the city, new and old wars are taking place in the endless desert.
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Director (1)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producers : Les Films du Balibari, Point du Jour International
- Co-production : Arte GEIE - Strasbourg
- Foreign production companies : Steps South Africa, DS Productions
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Estelle Robin-You
- Screenwriter : Ousmane Samassekou
- Director of Photography : Ousmane Samassekou
- Music Composer : Daven Keller
- Editor : Céline Ducreux
- Sound recordists : Salem Dendou, Adama Diarra
- Foreign producers : Andrey Samouté Diarra, Don Edkins
- Production managers : Armel Parisot, Gabriel Abenhaim, Ninon Paillard
- Sound Editor : Jean-Marc Schick
- Grader : Charlotte Mazzinghi
- Sound Mixer : Jean-Marc Schick
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Documentary
- Themes : Emigration
- Coproducer countries : France, Mali, South Africa
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 2021
- French release :
- Runtime : 1 h 25 min
- Current status :
- Visa number : 155.924
- Visa issue date : 02/12/2021
- Approval : No
- Color type : Color
- Rating restrictions : None
