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A sublime documentary on childhood and bereavement that’s one of several shorts the filmmaker completed while working in Algeria for Georges Derocles’s company Les Studios Africa, for whom he would shortly make his breakthrough feature The Olive Trees of Justice.
Cinematography
Sahara light so tangible you taste the dust.
Direction
Blue lets children be mysteries, not symbols.

Director
James Blue
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