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Desert Wind
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Genre Documentary
Length 80 min (+ TV version 52 min.)
Format Digi Beta
Sound SR stereo + 5.1
Original language French
Other versions English + German subtitles
First screening International Documentary Film Festival Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland - April 2005
World sales National Film Board of Canada
Director François Kohler
DOP Denis Jutzeler
  Camille Cottagnoud (steadycam)
Sound recording Eric Ghersinu
Location manager Jean-Marc Comhaire
Editing Hélène Girard (Canada)
Sound editing Olivier Calvert (Canada)
Music Anthony Rozankovic (Canada)
Narration Michel Langlois (Canada)
Therapist group leader Alexis Burger
Producers Heinz Dill et Xavier Grin (XL Prod – Switzerland)
Yves Bisaillon et Christian Medawar (NFB – Canada)
Coproducers XL Production pour Film & Télévision Sàrl
  National Film Board of Canada
 

Swiss Television TSR / SSR-SRG Idée suisse

  Irène Challand and Tiziana Mona
  Instant Film Sàrl
  Arte G.E.I.E.
  Jacques Laurent
   
With the support of REGIO Films Fund
  Fondation vaudoise pour le cinéma
  State of Neuchâtel

 
 

After its public successES in SWITZERLAND, Belgium, AT FILM FORUM IN NEW-YORK and IN QUEBEC, Desert Wind WILL BE AVALAIBLE ON DVD.



DESERT WIND on DVD

The DVD is avalaible, in a co-publishing with the Canadian National Film Board.

The DVD includes an interview with Guy CORNEAU, Canadian psychoanalist, writer and lecturer.

Interviews also with group leader Alexis Burger and director François Kohler.

Film and interviews are subtitled in English and German.

TO ORDER THE DVD:

SF 35.- (Including VAT 7.6%) + SF 5.-- postage /SF 10.- for Europe.

To order from SWITZERLAND, click here.

To order from EUROPE, click here.

For any other informations, write to info@lesouffledudesert.com.

CANADA, USA and the rest of the world :

For Canada, USA and the rest of the world, order at the Canadian National Film Board.

With the support of Guy CORNEAU

November 2006, psychiatrist, writer and lecturer Guy CORNEAU took part in a series of events organised along DESERT WIND's DVD release in Switzerland and Belgium.


USA and CANADA :

NEW-YORK, Desert Wind was screened at the Film Forum in February 2006


NY's reviews :

“Tracks thirteen men who have been brought together for a two-week trek in the Tunisian desert…the true subject matter is the men’s worries, their thoughts on relationships, and, in general, the psyche of the modern male…Watching the subjects’ emotional inhibitions get gradually peeled away is often fascinating.”

New York Magazine

“As the rigors of the trek become more grueling, the revelations grow more intimate. In the funniest scene, the men take turns stripping naked and talking about their bodies…DESERT WIND manages to take us to a seldom-visited place: the hidden corners of the straight male mind.”

Dana Stevens, The New York Times

“Led by a Swiss psychotherapist, the men confront their emotions and explode our beer-and-football notions of male bonding…their newfound openness with each other and themselves makes for funny, moving and riveting viewing.”

Steve Gartland, The L Magazine

“Fascinating.”

Jan Stuart, Newsday


by LC