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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 / Awards
DOK Leipzig 2008
Vision du Réel Nyon 2009, Switzerland
Planete Doc Review Warsaw 2009, Poland
FESPACO Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télevision Ouagadougou 2009, Burkina Faso
achtung berlin – new berlin film award 2009, Germany 2009 (Honorable Mention)
IFFF Dortmund | Cologne 2009, Germany
Ecrans Noirs – Film Festival Yaoundé 2009, Kamerun
Huesca IFF 2009, Spain
La Maison des Cineastes 2009, Mauretania
Jihlava IDF 2009, Czech Republic
cph:dox Copenhagen 2009, Denmark
Margarete Mead Film & Video Festival New York 2009, USA Starz Denver FF 2009, USA
Nominated for Doc Alliance Award 2009

 

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