Director

GAUTHIER FLAUDER was born in 1961. After an initial period spent in journalism, he moved on to documentary work. He has directed many award-winning films: Les cueilleurs de ciel (1995), in which he tells about the relationship between a coconut picker and his monkey in the Sumatra plantations; Lalibela (1996), winner of the Banff Festival, a documentary which takes us to the most sacred sactuary of the Ethiopian orthodox church; La Jerusalem noire (1996), which describes a visit to an extraordinary Ethiopian sanctuary during Easter week and finally Les missionnaires de la pub (1997), an original work in which an unusual theatre company preaches the "good news" of consumerism to some of the remotest villages in the Papuan mountains. Un Eden au Sahara has been screened at various international Festivals, winning the Prix du Public in Toulon and the Prize for the Best Film on Mountain Culture at the Banff Festival.

In Northern Chad, in the heart of the Sahara Desert, lies a forgotten mountain massif sheltering a flora and fauna of breathtaking beauty in its secret canyons.

Even today, access to the Ennedi Massif is difficult, and only a few rare nomads have been privileged to penetrate the heart of this astounding region, which gelously hides the last proofs of a world disappeared long ago: the Sahara before the Sahara….

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