2014 CNEX 國際華人紀錄片影展

擱淺撒哈拉 Hotel Sahara     [台灣首映]

 德國 Germany / 2008 / 85 min / 導演 Director：Bettina HAASEN

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信義威秀11/1,11:00   誠品信義11/7,17:30

 這是一條沒有終點、也沒有出口的道路。

努瓦迪布港，位在西非茅利塔尼亞。這個城鎮西迎大西洋、東面撒哈拉沙漠，是非洲往歐洲的中途站，也是非洲移民們過去與未來的轉折點。

好幾個世紀以來，數以萬計的人們走上這條路，他們想要告別過去，但到不了未來，只有無盡的等待與期望。一個象徵出發的港口，卻成為了他們的棲身之處……

A dead-straight, endless road leading to nowhere. And at the end of the road: Nouadhibou, a town in the West African country Mauritania, bordered by the ocean on one side and the Sahara Desert on the other. A bleak and inhospitable departure point for the tens of thousands of people that pour in from neighboring countries, all with only one dream in mind: Europe.

Hotel Sahara is a film journey to the last invisible border separating the West-African coast and Europe. The bleak city on the Atlantic Coast is a metaphor, a point of arrival and of departure, a gathering place of broken dreams – a place of waiting for that better life on the far side of the Atlantic. It is above all a no-man’s land, a place of endless waiting and endless hoping.

What if one simply desires to escape a deadening lack of perspective? With an observant and cautious eye, Hotel Sahara documents how closely the dream of a better life is linked to sudden stagnancy, and how much patience is required to wait for years to finally, perhaps, arrive somewhere.