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Hotel Sahara


 

Hotel Sahara
Hotel Sahara
 

Country of production
Germany

Year of production
2008

Format
35mm, Digi Beta

Length
52 and 85 min

Director
Bettina Haasen

Production
Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion in co-production with ZDF / Arte, YLE
 

„Hotel Sahara“ is a metaphor for transition of migrants who left their old life behind and who haven’t reached what they have been dreaming of. The focus of the film is Nouhadibou, or Hotel Sahara in Mauritania, a transit location thousands of immigrants on their way to Europe. Travelers from Sub-Saharian countries arrive in this melting pot which has been a platform of human traffic for centuries. Located between the past and the future, this film offers an intimate inside look into this place of waiting, of hope, of unfulfilled dreams, of invented and true stories, of double identities.

Original Language
Hassaniya, French, English, Igbo

Subtitles
English, French, German

Festivals
DOK Leipzig 2008

 

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