The Last Shelter

For years the House of Migrants in Gao, Mali, has been a place where people from all of Africa who dream of Europe pause in their journey to rest, physically and mentally. Many failed to reach a better life via Algeria – some return home traumatised and broken, others lie in an improvised cemetery in graves marked with their approximate date of death. Not even this deters Esther and Kady from Burkina Faso from setting out across a desert filled with danger, including armed groups. Malian filmmaker Ousmane Samassekou was inspired by the story of his uncle, who disappeared during his journey to Germany over 30 years ago. Among other awards, this film earned him the main prize at CPH:DOX.