VENTS DE SABLE, FEMMES DE ROC
Category: Feature Film
Director: Nathalie Borgers
Producer: Diana Elbaum
Country: Belgium, Austria, France
Year: 2009
Length: 90'
Production Status: completed
WINDS OF SAND, WOMEN OF ROCK
For the Tubu people, living in the Sahara desert is both harsh and very simple. Men and women have clearly defined roles. The men are camel breeders, the women are tied to the home. For anything a woman wants to do, she needs her husband's permission. For the women, this condition would be unbearable if it wasn't for the annual caravan that takes them on a 1500 kilometres journey on foot across the desert to collect dates. Even if the conditions are extreme, selling their date harvest brings them economic independence, pride and self confidence. Domagali, Amina and Mariama are three women whose destinies draw us into their world. Conflicts between tradition and modernity, between individual freedom and clan solidarity punctuate their stories.
Photo © Anne-Françoise Bersou-VDS
