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Desert Wind
200552 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: François Kohler
Production: Heinz Dill (XL Productions)Xavier GrinYves Bisaillon (National Film Board of Canada)Christian Medawar
Script: François Kohler
Produced by XL Productions and the National Film Board of Canada in co-production with TSR/SSR idée suisse, ARTE G.E.I.E. and Instant Film.
Thirteen men, total strangers from different countries and walks of life, have gathered at the edge of the Sahara for a physical and emotional adventure: a 15-day trek, a chance to rethink their lives and male identity and freely share their anxieties. The resulting film makes a clean sweep of clichés about what it means to be a man.
Honest and incisive, Desert Wind exposes the participants' innermost thoughts about their families, their roles as fathers, their relations with women, starting with their mothers, their sexuality. They say what they really think about power, aggressiveness, fear, performance. Their revelations are also for women, giving them a glimpse of the hidden side that few men spontaneously reveal.
Desert Wind is both a group-adventure documentary and a true work of creation.
Subject categories
- Developing Countries > Africa
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Emotional LifeInterpersonal RelationshipsMiddle Age
Credits
- participation
- Alexis Burger
- Christian Alby
- Guénaël Amieux
- Gaétan Côté
- Emmanuel-François Cousin
- Pierre-Yves Deprez
- Jean-Jacques Élie
- Sylvain Finamore
- Éric Gagnon
- Éric Jacquat
- Christian Noelting
- Louis Pache
- Bernard de Senarclens
- Nicolas Subtil
- writer
- François Kohler
- director
- François Kohler
- research
- François Kohler
- group work coordination
- Alexis Burger
- François Kohler
- director of photography
- Denis Jutzeler
- additional photography
- Camille Cottagnoud
- sound
- Éric Ghersinu
- location manager
- Jean-Marc Comhaire
- editing
- Hélène Girard
- assistant editor
- Christine Brunner
- technical assistance - editing
- Vincent Muri
- Phyllis Lewis
- sound editing
- Olivier Calvert
- dialogue editing
- Mira Mailhot
- narration writer
- Michel Langlois
- narrator
- Nicolas Charbonneaux-Collombet
- narration recording
- Luc Léger
- translation
- Edward Peitch
- subtitling
- Edward Peitch
- foley
- Lise Wedlock
- foley assistant
- Nicolas Gagnon
- foley recording
- Jo Caron
- original music
- Anthony Rozankovic
- musician
- Anthony Rozankovic
- Robert Cohen
- Charles Imbeau
- John Fraboni
- music recording
- Frédéric Grenon
- re-recording
- Serge Boivin
- online editing
- Sylvain Desbiens
- Denis Gathelier
- titles
- Benoît Chagnon
- producer
- Heinz Dill
- Xavier Grin
- Yves Bisaillon
- Christian Medawar
- production assistant
- Élisa Garbar
- production accountant
- Agnès Baud-Gerber
- marketing officer
- David Boisclair
- technical coordinator
- Jean-François Laprise
- administrative staff
- Denise DesLauriers
- Hélène Regimbal
- Mirabelle Bélanger
- Lise Lévesque