Le Cercle des noyés is the name given in Mauritania to black political prisoners imprisoned from 1987 in the old colonial fortress of Oualata. This film touches on the fragile process of unveiling memories by one of these former prisoners who remembers his story and that of his companions. In a visual echo, the places of their confinement come one after another denuded from any traces of that past.
The simplified black-and-white documentary challenges the viewer to hear the story of the Sahrawi people.
2009 documentary by Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd, set in Belgium, Senegal, the Ardennes and Western Sahara.
