The story of a housewife who, in order not to go mad, commits her pain to four notebooks. It is also the story of her slow but lucid and life-affirming liberation from a marriage that was suffocating her freedom.
Two genocides: the first perpetrated by Hutu extremists against the Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda in 1995; the second, in ex-Zaire, is the killing by Tutsi of the Hutu who escaped Rwanda.
“The struggle of the Tuareg people of Mali to hold onto their nomadic traditions is the subject of Isabella Sandri’s poignant docu ‘The Sand Raft’." ('Variety')
Special Jury Prize at the 21° Turin Film Festival