Desert Wind
Director François Kohler
Countries Canada, Switzerland, France
Duration 80 min
Synopsis
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 their male identity. Inspired by the desert, they share their anxieties, some of them taboo, all of them of universal interest, in moments of intimacy so intense they can be unsettling. The resulting film makes a clean sweep of clichés about what it means to be a man. "Le Souffle du Désert" exposes the participants’ innermost thoughts about their families, their roles as fathers, their relationships with women, starting with their mothers, their sexuality. They reveal what they really think about power, aggressiveness, fear, performance. The film is also for women, as it gives them a glimpse of the hidden side that few men spontaneously reveal.
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 their male identity. Inspired by the desert, they share their anxieties, some of them taboo, all of them of universal interest, in moments of intimacy so intense they can be unsettling. The resulting film makes a clean sweep of clichés about what it means to be a man. "Le Souffle du Désert" exposes the participants’ innermost thoughts about their families, their roles as fathers, their relationships with women, starting with their mothers, their sexuality. They reveal what they really think about power, aggressiveness, fear, performance. The film is also for women, as it gives them a glimpse of the hidden side that few men spontaneously reveal.