Films by Christof Vonderau

Germany 2011
by Miriam Faßbender

After his second failed attempt, the young Malian Mohamed finds himself in Gao, northern Mali. Gao is a hub for refugees from Central and West Africa and usually the first stop on one of the world's oldest migration routes via Algeria and Morocco to Europe. This is where Mohamed tries to regain his strength and earn the necessary money for his next attempt. Actually Mohamed wanted to work as a rice farmer in his homeland, Mali, but after his father's death his mother took him out of school and s