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Thirteen men, total strangers from different countries and walks of life, have gathered at the edge of the Sahara for a physical and emotional adventure: a 15-day trek, a chance to rethink their lives and their male identity. Inspired by the desert, they share their anxieties, some of them taboo, all of them of universal interest, in moments of intimacy so intense they can be unsettling. The resulting film makes a clean sweep of clichés about what it means to be a man. Desert Wind exposes the participants’ innermost thoughts about their families, their roles as fathers, their relations with women, starting with their mothers, their sexuality. They reveal what they really think about power, aggressiveness, fear, performance. The film is also for women, as it gives them a glimpse of the hidden side that few men spontaneously reveal. |
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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 :
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
“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 |
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