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Hotel Sahara is a film journey to the last invisible border from the West-African coast to Europe: Nouadhibou, Mauritania. Hotel Sahara is a metaphor, a point of arrival, of departure, of broken dreams. A melting pot. A place of gathering. It is, above all, a no-man’s land, a place of endless waiting and endless hoping. In the beginning Nouadhibou looks like any other West African city, but entering the colourful lives of the people who live there, we discover what it means to be on transit, on the road, stuck in a desert city next to the Atlantic Ocean, between hope and despair, between homelessness and the search for a home. Hotel Sahara is a location offering a new perspective on the actual situation of migrants attempting a new life in "the North".

Germany - 2008 - 1 h 25 mn - 35 mm • 1,85 - Colour and B&W

Director Bettina Haasen Writer Bettina Haasen Camera Jacko Van't Hof Sound Pascal Capitolin Editing Kristine Langner Music Karsten Höfer

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