trifilm

Germany 2012, 87 min
by Beatrix Schwehm

The Bengalese architect MOHAMMED REZWAN builds library boats that can bring books to people even during the monsoon season. The Mongolian author of children’s books, JAMBYN DASHDONDOG, packs two boxes full of books each summer to provide reading material to children in remote areas. The Kenyan librarian ABDULLAHI OSMAN leads caravans of camels loaded with boxes of books to the nomadic tribes bordering Somalia. Despite the heat, wind, rain or snow, they still manage their long journeys - by foot