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Winner of the Critics Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Oliver Laxe’s stunning new filmis a breathtakingly-shot Western that follows a mysterious caravan as it escorts an elderly and dying Sheikh trough the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. His last wish is to be buried with his loved ones. But death does not wait.
Without their leader, the company grows fearful. And at the foot of a mountain pass, they refuse to continue, entrusting the body to two men who agree to carry on and bring it to its final destination. But who are these men? And do they really know the way?
In another world, a mysterious young man is chosen to find the caravan.
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Spain, Morocco, France, Qatar, 2016 | Language: Arabic, Galician | 96 minutes | Cert: CLUB
Director/Writer: Oliver Laxe
Cast: Ahmed Hammoud, Shakib Ben Omar, Said Aagli
A short Irish film, The Tatoo [15 minutes], will be shown before the feature.
