Rostov-Luanda (1997)
- Directed by
- Abderrahmane Sissako
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Mauritania
- Runtime
- 58 min
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The director returns to Angola many years after meeting an Angolan student on a train in Russia. He searches for his old friend while traveling through a country scarred by war.
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What happens
Rostov-Luanda is a 1997 Mauritanian documentary film directed by Abderrahmane Sissako and co-produced by Christian Baute, Pierre Hanau, and Dominique Andreani. The documentary deals with long standing friendship between the director Sissako who met Baribanga, an Angolan student, during a train ride from Moscow to Rostov when both were moving to study film in Moscow. Many years later, Sissako made his journey across war-torn Angola to find his friend. The film had its premier on 25 January 1997 in the Netherlands. The film received positive reviews from critics and screened at many film festivals. In 2018, at the Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film, it received a Special Mention at the TV5 Best Documentary Award. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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