Barfuss nach Timbuktu

Barefoot To Timbuktu

Switzerland, October 2009
FILM, Documentary, 85 min.

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directed by
Martina Egi
Written by
Martina Egi, Beat Hirt
Status
In distribution
Website
www.barefoot2timbuktu.com

In 1987 the Swiss-American Ernst Aebi found himself stranded at the Araouane oasis in the Sahara on the back of a camel. The few inhabitants were poor. Aebi decided on the spur of the moment to realise a self-help project with them. He became a beacon of hope for these people who had known neither fruit nor vegetables. Aebi, a successful artist in New York, stayed on for three years. A civil war in Mali forces him in the early nineties to escape “his” village. He returned to Araouane in 2008. A film about tolerance, conflict and friendship between cultures.

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World Premiere
October 2009
Original Version
French, English, German,  colour, Digi Beta, 85 min.
Production
Mesch & Ugge AG
Producer
Beat Hirt
directed by
Martina Egi
Written by
Martina Egi, Beat Hirt
Cinemato­graphy
Frank Messmer
Editing
Christian Müller
Music
Fatima Dunn, Nico Contesse
Location Sound Mix
Florian Flossmann

World Sales / World Rights

World Sales
Accent Films International Ltd.

Worldwide Distribution

Switzerland
Filmcoopi Zürich AG Distribution

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