Chasing the Sun: El Shatt

The film touches on some historical facts about the largest refugee camp El Shatt in the Sinai desert in Egypt during the WWII, based on materials from Croatian and international archives and intertwined with the visuals of this desert non-place now. An attempt to reconstruct a fragmented memory of unknown history about migration in the Mediterranean as a transtemporal filmic journey. (Film could be suitable in several genres - short documentary, experimental or artist's film / essay film) World premiere was at Oberhausen Int. Short Film Festival / International Competition 04_2023

Year

2023

Director

Ana Bilankov

Duration

19 min

Country

Croatia

Language

Croatian, English