Le cercle des noyés, Drowned in oblivion
Director Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd
Countries Belgium, France
Duration 71 min
Synopsis
Le cercle des noyés is the name given in Mauritania to black political prisoners imprissonned from 1987 in the old colonial fortress of Qualata. THis film touches on the fragile process of unveiling memories by one of these former prisoners who remmebers 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.
Le cercle des noyés is the name given in Mauritania to black political prisoners imprissonned from 1987 in the old colonial fortress of Qualata. THis film touches on the fragile process of unveiling memories by one of these former prisoners who remmebers 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.