Dreams of dust / a film by Laurent Salgues with Makena Diop ; a France - Canada Coproduction.

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A Nigerien peasant comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in northeastern Burkina Faso, Africa. He quickly finds out the gold rush ended twenty years before and the inhabitants of this wasteland manage to exist simply from force of habit.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	WGBH Video (Firm)
Other Authors:	Salgues, Laurent Diop, Makena (Actor) Tall-Salgues, Fatou (Actor)
Language:	French English
Language and/or Writing System:	French dialogue with English subtitles; closed captioned.
Published:	Prince Frederick, MD : WGBH Boston Video, 2007.
Series:	Film Movement series ; v. 5, film 9.
Subjects:	Gold mines and mining > Burkina Faso > Drama. Nigeriens > Burkina Faso > Drama. Foreign workers > Burkina Faso > Drama. Feature films. Foreign films. Fiction films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genre:	Drama. Feature films. Foreign films. Fiction films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (approximately 86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	Video DVD

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