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Ballade aux sources + Life on Earth (12A*) + Introduction

Screening the Sahara

,Cinema 3
Two old men sit in a long boat on a river with a bicycle and a black umbrella.

Semi-autobiographical films from the Sahara’s foremost filmmakers explore the return of the exiled and the multiplicity of identity and landscape in the region.

The event showcases works by Med Hondo and Abderahmane Sissako that explore the identities and landscapes of the Sahara.

Taking the lead both behind and in front of the screen, these early films by two masters of cinema bring us on a voyage tracing their own personal trajectories of migration and exile, and the wider shared geo-history of the region and its diaspora.

In Life on Earth, a young emigré returns from France to a Malian oasis to bring in the millennium with family. Ballade aux sources, newly restored and played with its original orchestral soundtrack for the first time in the UK, sees filmmaker Med Hondo embark on a ‘mission transaharienne’, leaving vertiginous neon Paris for an overland descent from North to West Africa.

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Ballade aux sources, Med Hondo, 1965, 25 mins U, no dialogue

Life on Earth, Abderahmane Sissako, 1998, 60 mins PG, in French and Bambara with English subtitles

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