At the Crossroads
(KAHAN KA RAASTA)
Savyasachi Anju Prabir
India 2017 | 48 min | engl. subtitled
India 2017 | 48 min | engl. subtitled
Tue, 28-May-19 01:00 PM
Sun, 02-Jun-19 03:30 PM

The film situates the viewer within the makeshift space of an animal market in Algeria. Drifting between feeding and waiting, one attunes to the bodies of goats and camels, two of the oldest companions of people living in the Maghreb. As we move deeper into the desert, the site turns into a sacrifice zone and reveals its dark geopolitical secrets: the situation of Sahrawi refugees in the partially recognised Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
This sensory ethnography film encourages to question the banality of displacement, confinement and exploitation in an out-of-sight territory.