" UNDERTOWS - a tuareg tale" is a personal quest, a generational transmission.
It is the hieratic journey of a filmmaker into the memory of his people. In the form of an intimate letter that the director addresses like a testament to his son, through the history of the Kel Ansar - the suzerain tribe in the Timbuktu region from which the author comes - the film recounts the history, resistance and culture of the Tuareg. Shaken by colonisation, sedentarisation, droughts, rebellions and cyclical exile, the Tuaregs are attempting their ultimate survival.At once a testimony to the ongoing conflicts and a story told through storytelling, the film is also an existential journey, between sand and sea, exile and living memory.

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