Seven fables from the Sahara that'll make 23 minutes feel like a fever dream of sand and soul.
A collection of seven little stories about Niger and its Sahara desert from the illustrated book by Hideko Fukuda & Masanori Inui.
Cinematography
Illustrations breathe like living scrolls.
Sound
Keiko Jin'no's voice = ASMR from another century.
Director
Masahiro Nishioka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hideko Fukuda spent years in Niger; this isn't armchair anthropology but lived-in observation. The illustrated book predates the film by decades.
TMDB's 0.0 rating with zero votes is almost poetic—this film barely exists in algorithmic memory, which feels right for something about disappearing oral traditions.
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