Waiting for the (T)rain

 

France

25', 2015

DIRECTED BY

Simon Panay

SCRIPTWRITER

Simon Panay

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Nicolas Canton, David Capsir

EDITED BY

David Capsir

PRODUCED BY

Simon Panay

 

Even in modern times, the villages in the arid regions of Burkina Faso subsist on minimal amounts of food and water. Significant resources of survival in periods of drought are the remains of food and water in plastic bottles, dumped by travellers along railroads. The anthropologically shaped portraits of elderly and young villagers reveal the former colonial history and contemporary existential challenges.