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Drowned in Oblivion (2007)

Drowned in Oblivion (2007)

Documentary
Release Date: 2007, April 10
Directors: Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd
Countries: Belgium, France
Production: Zeugma Films, Cobra Films, Images Plus, Gsara A.s.b.l., CBA, Les Ateliers du Laziri

Overview:

Le Cercle des noyés is the name given in Mauritania to black political prisoners imprisoned from 1987 in the old colonial fortress of Oualata. This film touches on the fragile process of unveiling memories by one of these former prisoners who remembers his story and that of his companions. In a visual echo, the places of their confinement come one after another denuded from any traces of that past.