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- In the summer of 1957, during the Algerian war, the Senegalese sub-lieutenant Souleymane Fall discovers among the bushes a young girl, Fatima, stunned, her eyes bulging with fear. He rapes her. This misfortune gives birth to a son with very black skin. A few years later, in Senegal, Souleyman's father, a practicing Muslim, demands that his son find and marry Fatima, "his sister in Islam".
- We don't know much about our girl. We don't even know her name. She is involved in an accident that is not confirmed by witnesses, therefore her parents, especially the father, deal with the situation in a more flexible way than the girl expects. The relationship between the girl and her father is what awaits us in this movie. There is no tension nor attraction between the two sides. No conversations, just the wait for both sides to clarify things .
- This documentary champions the Sahrawi independence movement in Western Sahara.
- A documentary that critiques the neo colonial destruction of indigenous African agriculture and economies, resulting in mass starvation.
- A documentary about religious extremism in Mauritania and those who fight it.
- Female Haratins face double discrimination both as members of the 'slave caste' and because they are women. They face the threats of forced and/or early marriage (in order to maximise their child-bearing potential, and increase their master's stock of slaves), lack of control of fertility, sexual abuse or rape, and trafficking into sexual exploitation which increase the dangers of severe maternal health problems and HIV/AIDS. Additionally, children of slaves automatically become the property of their masters and can be rented out, loaned or given as gifts in marriage. Haratin communities are largely unable to change their situation because there are enormous challenges in trying to overcome deep seated prejudices and a lack of political will to bring about fundamental change to a system from which the majority of the population (including the government, legislature, judiciary and police) benefit.
- A journey seeks deep to the soul of a place that turned from an exile of illegitimate children and garbage into a space for cultural diversity and cinema in Nouakchott, Mauritania.
- "Sheikh Ponzi" exposes the shady business practices of Sheikh Ali al-Rida, a prominent religious leader with close spiritual ties to the Mauritanian president Gen. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.
- The perpetual rumbling of wagons on rusty tracks disappearing on desert horizon. The bleating of goats suffering from heat and thirst. Freight cars with Bedouins and cezve of strong mint tea. The train, carrying tankers filled with water and fuel, cuts through the desert landscape of the never-ending horizon of sand. In the mud huts along the tracks, people live humble lives on the edge of poverty. The tank of water and fuel is the basic unit of measure for survival. The train is the main axis of life for the Bedouins catching their breath in the shadows of the heat and the contours of tranquillity.