Choucha
Choucha
Sophie Bachelier / - France
Synopsis
A camp in southern Tunisia, Choucha. The desert. On June 30th, 2013 the camp closed: water and electricity were cut off. Yet 700 escapees from the Libyan conflict, refugees with no country to go to, their requests for asylum rejected, have survived in that ghost place for two and a half years.
Film details
Type : Documentary
Duration : 50 min
Year of production : 2016
Country : France
Screenwriter : Sophie Bachelier
Cinematography : Sophie Bachelier / Djibril Diallo
Editor : Sophie Bachelier / Djibril Diallo
Director : Sophie Bachelier /
Production company : DAMU et d'eau fraîche
Sophie Bachelier /
Sophie Bachelier is a photographer and filmmaker, a graduate in Decorative Arts from Paris who also holds a Master’s degree in Ethnology. She is interested in how the collective history meshes with individual destinies and transforms them. Her film “MBËKK Mi, the breath of the ocean” about illegal emigration in Senegal as seen by those wives and mothers who remain on the shore, received special mention for Best Feature-length Documentary from the Anna Politkovskaya Jury at the 30th Créteil Women’s Film Festival. Her film "Choucha, an unfathomable indifference" received the prize for best documentary at the Festival Vues d'Afrique in Montreal, Canada.