Rêves de poussière
Directed byLaurent Salgues
Written byLaurent Salgues
Produced bySophie Salbot
Marc Daigle
StarringMakena Diop
Rasmane Ouedraogo
Adama Ouédraogo
CinematographyCrystel Fournier
Edited byAnnie Jean
Music byJean Massicotte
Mathieu Vanasse
Production
companies
Distributed byFilm Movement
Release date
  • August 23, 2006 (2006-08-23) (Rencontres Cinéma de Gindou)
Running time
86 minutes
CountriesBurkina Faso
Canada
France
LanguageFrench

Rêves de poussière (English: Dreams of Dust 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. He hopes to forget the past in this prison, where the bars are made of dust and wind.[1]

Production

The film was the first full-length feature by Salges.[2] 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.[1] The film was a France-Canada co-production between Athénaïse – Sophie Salbot and ACPAV – Marc Daigle.[1] The associate producer was Sékou Traoré of the Burkina Faso company Sahelis Productions.[3]

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".[4] Another critic says "Cinematographed by Crystel Fournier, images are hauntingly dreamlike. Wind-swept dust is a recurrent motif".[5] The film was nominated for the grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema - Dramatic category. It won prizes at Tarifa 2007, Amiens 2006 and Namur 2006.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "DREAMS OF DUST" (PDF). WIDE Management. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
  2. ↑ "Salgues Laurent". Africine. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
  3. ↑ "Productions". Sahelis. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
  4. ↑ "French director Laurent Salgues' debut film "Rêves de poussière (Dreams of Dust)" (2008): Infusing dignity and elegance to cinema on Africa". Moviewssansfrontieres. January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
  5. ↑ Denis Grunes. "DREAMS OF DUST (Laurent Salgues, 2006)". Retrieved 2012-03-13.
  6. ↑ "Rêves de poussière". Laurent Salgues. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
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