Country: Italy
Year: 2003
Duration: 66
In a chorus of voices, of testimonies and considerations, the Tuareg
tell how, in 1990, in the North of Mali, there has been a great Tuareg
ribellion and how thousands of civilians have been killed by the Mali
Army and by the militia pro-government of Ghanda Koy as a retaliation to
the attacks of the Popular Front and the Liberation Islamic Front of
Azaward.
"This documentary tells about the abandonment of old ways of life of the
nomads caused by sedentary life, the difference between 'houses of skin'
(the tents) and 'houses of dirt', the desire of peace imposed by women
and, as last, the journey of two young people, different in race and
enemy toward each other, a Tuareg and a Bambara, through a dream made of
sand, light, water, peace, where bodies are mixed inside a long drape, a blu shesh" (I. Sandri).
Biography
film director
Isabella Sandri
Isabella Sandri (Rovigo, Italy, 1957) debuted with The World Upside Down (Locarno, Rotterdam, Turin). In 1997, in Rwanda, she shot Gli spiriti delle mille colline (54th Venice FF). She and Gaudino made La casa dei limoni about Sabra and Shatila. The film Animali che attraversano la strada (57th Venice FF) recounts the life of a girl who lives in Rome’s suburbs, I quaderni di Luisa is about domestic violence (58th Venice FF), La zattera di sabbia is about the Tuareg people (Turin, Special Jury Prize). She and Gaudino shot Maquilas, about factories in Mexico (Turin, Special Jury Prize, Cipputi Award); in Afghanistan she made Storie d’armi e di piccoli eroi and Per questi stretti morire (64th Venice FF) about De Agostini in Tierra del Fuego. She coproduced and cowrote Gaudino’s movies Giro di lune tra terra e mare and Per amor vostro.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
La vestaglia rosa (corto, 1987), Calcinacci (coregia/codirector Giuseppe Gaudino, doc., 1990), Il mondo alla rovescia (1995), Gli spiriti delle mille colline (doc., 1997), Animali che attraversano la strada (2000), I diari della Sacher (ep. I quaderni di Luisa, doc., 2001), Maquilas (coregia/codirector Giuseppe Gaudino, doc., 2004), Per questi stretti morire (coregia/codirector Giuseppe Gaudino, doc., 2010), Un confine incerto (2019).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto, fotografia/(irector, story, director of photography: Isabella Sandri
Montaggio/Film editor: Isabella Sandri, Rosella Mocci
Musica/Music: Ipsilon Indi
Produzione/Production: Gaundri
Montaggio/Film editor: Isabella Sandri, Rosella Mocci
Musica/Music: Ipsilon Indi
Produzione/Production: Gaundri
TFF
prizes
