Tangier, the Burners' Dream

Leila Kilani
France, documentary, 2002
53 mins. (Beta)
(French with English subtitles)

This documentary is set in Tangiers. A port city in Morocco overlooking the straight of Gibraltar and the Spanish coast, it is a popular departure point for clandestine emigrant crossings. The film follows three buners (people willing to burn their identity papers in search of a new life), their life or rather their survival and mostly their changing, complex, dare devil and playful experiences.