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Waiting for Happiness

Heremakono

2002

A young man passing through a Mauritanian coastal town to visit his mother before emigrating to Europe feels like a stranger in the place he grew up, unable even to speak the local language, as small lives drift around him. Abderrahmane Sissako's luminous, contemplative drama.

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