Publication
Imprint: [USA] : Typecast releasing, 2008. Series: Nacer Khemir's Desert Trilogy. Responsibility: directed by Nacer Khemir. Performer(s): Nacer Khemir, Soufiane Makni, Noureddine Kasbaoui. OCLC Number: 628161797. Language: Arabic with English subtitles (optional). Physical: 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Call number
DVD / Front Desk
UPC
643519121097
Original publication date
2008
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Description: WANDERERS OF THE DESERT a film by Nacer Khemir
95 min., Arabic with English subtitles
Film 1 in Nacer Khemir's Desert Trilogy, also see Dove's Lost Necklace and Bab'Aziz.
Official Selection
- Valencia Film Festival
Official Selection
- Carthage Film Festival
With Wanderers of the Desert, Tunisian writer and poet Nacer Khemir creates a visually hypnotic cinematic masterpiece, the first in his highly-regarded Desert Trilogy.
When a young teacher arrives for a position at an isolated village school in the heart of the shimmering desert, mysterious events begin to unfold: Legendary figures materialize out of the village well and from the desert itself; groups of children hurry through a labyrinth of underground corridors; villagers gather around a ship that has mysteriously washed up in the desert sand; the young men of the village disappear one by one and never return. With a richly expressive visual style and superb use of color, director Nacer Khemir shows how legend, tradition, and fate hang heavily over this community, and how nothing is ever quite what it seems.
FY2011 / jvsn
95 min., Arabic with English subtitles
Film 1 in Nacer Khemir's Desert Trilogy, also see Dove's Lost Necklace and Bab'Aziz.
Official Selection
- Valencia Film Festival
Official Selection
- Carthage Film Festival
With Wanderers of the Desert, Tunisian writer and poet Nacer Khemir creates a visually hypnotic cinematic masterpiece, the first in his highly-regarded Desert Trilogy.
When a young teacher arrives for a position at an isolated village school in the heart of the shimmering desert, mysterious events begin to unfold: Legendary figures materialize out of the village well and from the desert itself; groups of children hurry through a labyrinth of underground corridors; villagers gather around a ship that has mysteriously washed up in the desert sand; the young men of the village disappear one by one and never return. With a richly expressive visual style and superb use of color, director Nacer Khemir shows how legend, tradition, and fate hang heavily over this community, and how nothing is ever quite what it seems.
FY2011 / jvsn
Physical description
4.75 inches
Original language
Arabic