Le barrage
By Ali Cherri
Lebanese artist and director Ali Cherri sets up his camera in Sudan, on the banks of the Nile near the Merowe Dam. We follow the daily life of the workers in a brick factory against the backdrop of demonstrations against the dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir. Maher, the protagonist, when he is not working, builds a talking mud monster. The power of imagination allows him to escape from his slave labour and the heavy political and social situation in his country. Poetic and hypnotic, the film skillfully navigates between fiction and documentary.
Festival: Quinzaine des Cinéastes, Cannes Film Festival 2022
A meeting with Ali Cherri will take place on Thursday 16 March at 18:00 at the MAMCO (free admission).
Section Competition - Fiction
Original language(s) Arabic
Subtitle(s) French & English
AfricaSocial issuesEnvironment
- Director(s)
- Ali Cherri
- Writer(s)
- Ali Cherri, Geoffroy Grison & Bertrand Bonello
Casting
- Maher El Khair
World sales
- Indie Sales
Production
- KinoElektron
- Galerie Imane Fares
- Vega Foundation
- DGL Travel
- Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion GmbH
- Trilema
Cinematographer
- Bassem Fayad
Music
- Robin "Rob" Coudert
Editor
- Isabelle Manquillet
- Nelly Quettier
- Duration
- 80'
- Year
- 2022
- Production country
- Lebanon, France, Sudan, Germany, Serbia & Qatar
- Status
- Swiss Premiere
Tuesday 14 March
18:30
Grütli - Salle Simon
sold out - in case of cancellation, tickets will be put back on sale before the screening
In presence of the filmmaker
Thursday 16 March
21:00
Grütli - Salle Simon
sold out - in case of cancellation, tickets will be put back on sale before the screening
In presence of the filmmaker
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