A man with no name wanders through the north African desert, moving slowly toward what he knows is the Mediterranean Sea in the distance. He seeks Europe, and eventually he and his friend, also lacking a name, climb into a truck. They are attacked, and the first man makes his way to the shore and begins to cross the sea in a rotted dinghy. In the middle of the sea, the man finds himself in a thick forest—did he make it to another shore, or is this the hallucination of a dying man? And the old man he meets there bears an almost too striking resemblance to the younger man himself.
Abandon all of your preconceptions and be prepared to commit yourself to this cinematic vision of North Africa, which has no dialogue or intertitles (though it is not purely silent) from conceptual filmmaker Ali Eddine Slim.
Director’s Statement
Ali Eddine Slim: Ali Eddine Slim on The Last of Us: “It is a continuity of research in the themes that are of importance to me: the problems of borders, imaginary territories, contemporary solitude, vagrancy, the issues of crossing and of the human nature in all its facets. The project tackles the realm of magical realism, of the ephemeral, and of disappearance and mutation.” (from StillMoving.fr)
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