SPRING 2009 FILM SERIES
SHOWING - February 24, 2009 7:00 PM
Dreams of Dust
Drama | Burkina Faso, Canada, France
DIRECTOR: Laurent Salgues
Official Selection 2007 Sundance Film Fesival
http://www.filmmovement.com/filmcatalog/index.asp?MerchandiseID=121
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 wasteland and strange timelessness 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. |
