''Rêves de poussière'' (' or ''Buried Dreams'') is a 2006 film by director Laurent Salgues.

Plot

''Rêves de poussière'' tells of Mocktar Dicko, a Nigerien peasant, who goes to look for work in a gold mine in northeastern

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274,223 km2 (105,87 ...

. He hopes to forget the past in this prison, where the bars are made of dust and wind.

Production

The film was the first full-length feature by Salges. The project quickly secured Avance sur Recettes and GAN Foundation funding, and gained further French and European funding since the director had obtained Burkina Faso citizenship through marriage. The film was a France-Canada co-production between Athénaïse – Sophie Salbot and ACPAV – Marc Daigle. The associate producer was

Sékou Traoré Sékou Traoré is a filmmaker from Burkina Faso. He and his friends Dani Kouyaté and Issa Traoré de Brahima established the production company Sahelis Productions in 1992. He has worked as director, producer and production manager on a number o ...

of the

company Sahelis Productions.

Reception

A reviewer says the "opening shot reminds you of a choreographed musical—only there is no music, only silence and the sounds of workers’ tools". Another critic says "Cinematographed by Crystel Fournier, images are hauntingly dreamlike. Wind-swept dust is a recurrent motif". The film was nominated for the grand Jury Prize at the

Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with 423,234 combined in-person and online viewership in 2023. The festival has acted ...

in the World Cinema - Dramatic category. It won prizes at

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2007,

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2006 and

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2006.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Reves De Poussiere 2006 films 2006 drama films Burkinabe drama films Canadian drama films French drama films French-language Canadian films 2000s Canadian films 2000s French films