Yellow Brick Road

director: Eloy D. Serén

original title: Den gula tegelvägen

country: Sweden

year: 2015

running time: 14 min.

synopsis

In the Western Sahara desert, large cars disintegrate into the sand, surrounded by a refugee camp. Against a yellow backdrop of sand, two small boys play in one of the wrecks. A static shot like a moving photograph of time, which flows slowly in the refugee camp.

DETAIL:
Hamdi and Ali are playing in a rusty car wreck. They take turns in singing songs that sound almost as if they were sang by grown men and not by two kids from a refugee camp.

biography

Eloy Domínguez Serén, originally from Spain, studied documentary filmmaking in Barcelona. He made his first film, The Sons of Samson (2011) in Spain. In 2012, he emigrated to Sweden, where he made his second short film Pettring (2013). In 2014, he began working as a filmmaking instructor in a refugee camp in the Sahara - the inspiration for his film Yellow Brick Road. He is now filming in the Arctic Circle.

more about film

director:	Eloy D. Serén
cast:	Hamdi Bidi Bugrain, Ali Salem Mohamed Ali
producer:	Michael Krotkiewski
photography:	Eloy D. Serén
editing:	Eloy D. Serén

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