When the wind hit the sand

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Movie
German title When the wind hit the sand
Original title Si le vent soulève les sables
Country of production Belgium , France
original language French
Publishing year 2006
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
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Director Marion Hansel
script Marion Hansel
production Marion Hansel
music René-Marc Bini
camera Walther van den Ende
cut Michèle Hubinon
occupation

When the wind touched the sand is a feature film by Belgian director Marion Hänsel . The film was based on the novel Chamelle by Marc Durin-Valois .

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Rahne is a teacher in a village somewhere in Africa . He has two sons when his wife Mouna gives birth to a daughter. In the village there is the opinion that a daughter is not helpful in the poverty of the village and just another eater. However, Mouna prevents the daughter from being killed. The young parents call her Shasha.

Years later the village is without water. The villagers decide to leave the village. However, Rahne is of the opinion that he can only find water for his family in the rebel-controlled part of the country. Despite warnings, he sets off in this direction with a family friend and an old friend. Soon they reach a watering hole which is controlled by Officer Lassong and his soldiers. Lassong demands payment for the use of the water. The old man of the group sells his entire herd of cattle for the crossing in the soldier's jeep to the border of the country. Rahne later finds out that the old man was murdered. The two families decide to leave the watering hole as quickly as possible. As they continue their search, they are twice surprised by rebels and looters. The first time they meet, they are allowed to move on when they leave the eldest son to the rebels as a child soldier . The second time, daughter Shasha has to walk across a field with land mines to find a safe route for the looters. She survived and the bandits continue on this way, but shoot the second son of Rahnes.

Mouna falls ill on the grueling hike through the desert regions of Africa. The second family goes on alone because Mouna is too weak. When Mouna is finally too weak to continue the journey, Rahne and Shasha have to leave their beloved wife and mother behind. They want to get help. Rahne, Shasha and the camel Chamelle walk on alone until they are completely exhausted. Father and daughter have never been as close as they are now and they are aware that they only have each other. They are eventually found by UN workers helping the needy refugees. They are nursed back to health in the camp and meet the father of the family friend from the village again. You are the only one who survived the search for water.

background

The film was shot in Djibouti . The casting process took six months to select the right child actors in Djibouti. Isaka Sawadogo from Burkina Faso , who lives in Norway as a theater actor, took on the role of father Rahne . The Mouna actress comes from Rwanda and survived the genocide in Rwanda as a Tutsi . She now lives in Belgium and already played a leading role in Raoul Peck's Sometimes in April .

The film had its world premiere at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 2006 . The film has been in cinemas in Germany since July 26, 2007.

Reviews

  • Spiegel-Online, July 25, 2007: "When the wind touched the sand" has become an impressive film about an incessant struggle for existence in an inhospitable nature that can only be struggled with its resources. Add this heat, in which the contours shimmer and the time begins to flake. In which the perception becomes independent and the hot air paints its own pictures of the world. But with all the magnificent long shots of the East African desert, the film is by no means an aesthetic meditation on time, space and cinema. The Belgian film director Marion Hänsel, who became known for consistent psychological dramas like "Dust" (1985) or "Barbarische Hochzeit" (1987), simply has too much to tell for that. From moving out of an entire village in search of water, from the drama of torn families, from migration and foreigners.
  • Film service: Cleverly the balance between neorealistic representation and poetic exaggeration, which is condensed into a masterpiece of ethnic-fictional cinema, not least through the atmospheric-dense images and the authentic actors.

Awards

The film received the CICAE Prize at the San Sebastián Film Festival in 2006 and was screened in the festival's competition.

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