Millenium Festival

Synopsis :

Travelling on foot from Marrakech to reach the dunes of the Sahara, a 600 km journey through the Atlas, a dream for Aurélia. A dream but also a challenge, that of undertaking this trip with her 3 daughters of 4, 6 and 8 years old. Together, they will experience nomadic life for two months, cross wonderful landscapes and discover Berber hospitality. But they will also share laughter, unexpectedness, fatigue, fear and joy. An initiatory journey that this little family will accomplish with extraordinary courage and from which both mother and daughters will grow up.

Credits

Movie language: French

Subtitle language(s): English

Directors' biographies :

Since television fascinated her as a little girl, as much as it gave her nightmares, Charlène Gravel made it her profession to give this dark object a completely different face. In parallel with her studies in philosophy, she is now focusing on documentary film. Through her films, she chooses to get closer to human experiences, where, in seeking to surpass themselves, people change and offer as much as they learn. She has thus worked on many prime time films, such as portraits of children on a journey, Les enfants explorateurs, high level freedivers La vie sans air, or the crossing of the 5 continents by the disabled swimmer with the devastating smile Philippe Croizon, Swimming beyond borders. She is developing new writing with the series Nus et Culottés that she has been co-directing for 6 years. Today, she works to show a generous, accessible television that connects, highlighting the courage and beauty of the human being.

Aurélia Tazi is a self-entrepreneur, adventurer and mother of three children. Since 1995, she has lived in New York, Wallis & Futuna and Casablanca. At the age of 38, after months of preparation, she started a huge dream: a two-month "solitary" walk with her three daughters and a mule, across the Atlas Mountains, from her house in Marrakech to the dunes of the Sahara more than 600 km away.

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