Barefoot to Timbuktu (2010)
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Director:- Martina Egi
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Also Known As: Barfuss nach Timbuktu
Opened: 02/12/2010 Limited
| Quad Cinema/NY | 02/12/2010 |
Genre: Documentary
Rated: Unknown Rating
Official Synopsis
Araouane, a once prosperous oasis in the middle of the Sahara, chokes beneath encroaching dunes. While traveling with nomads, Ernst Aebi, a New York artist, chances upon a few remaining starving people, former slaves of long departed rulers. Touched by their destitution, he decides to help.
Having become prosperous as one of the early loft converters in SoHo, New York's now fancy artist's district, he stays three years. He spends a large part of his fortune to revive the oasis. A vegetable garden, a school, a small hotel rise from the sand.
Civil war forces Aebi to flee, leaving behind a flourishing community and friends who count the days 'til his return.
Almost twenty years later he manages to find his way back to Araouane despite the region having become a lawless no-man's land. This is a deeply emotional voyage of hope and desire.
BAREFOOT TO TIMBUKTU weaves archival and new material into a fascinating portrait of a sensitive, wild, some would say crazy, globetrotting adventurer.
