Frontières

Credits

Name: Frontières

Country: Algerien; Frankreich

Year of publication: 2001

Format: 35 mm

Color: color

Language : OF m. engl. UT

Duration: 105 Minuten

Direction: Djadjam, Mostéfa

Screenplay: Djadjam, Mostéfa; de Sacy, Agnès

Camera: Lagriffoul, Pascal

Editing: Dairou, Pauline

Sound: Lorrain, Pierre

Actor: Dante, Lou; Luambo, Clarisse; Yenke, Ona Lu; Koma, Dioucounda; Tuene, Tadie

Abstract

Six men and a woman set out on the hazardous journey from Senegal to Morocco in a bid to slip illegally into Europe to escape from the poverty and internecine warfare of Africa. All are lured by the promise of a better life, but the challenges are numerous. Passing through the hands of various smugglers, they cross the desert of Mauritania and Algeria, first in a pick up, then in the back of refrigerated fish trucks, and are finally dumped and forced to walk to the Moroccan border. Though each is lured by a different reason, they unite to overcome obstacles and finally reach the coast of Morocco, where they stand looking at Spain across the narrow Straits of Gibraltar. On reaching Tangiers, the invisible travelers go their separate ways and prepare to attempt the fateful crossing to Spain.