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The Mauritania Railway: Backbone of the Sahara
2018 · Film · documentary · 12 min
Directed by MacGregor
Journey of a 700 km. train route across Mauritania, along which iron ore is transported to the port.
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This is completely tangential, but adds to the sort of vision of the world on that stage. Specifically your reference to how hard the world can be for some people.
It's a brilliant and beautifully photographed documentary about the people who ride the cross-Saharan train, sometimes as the core of their livelihood, and the people who rely on this older technology just to be able to eat.
It's titled The Mauritania Railway: Backbone of the Sahara
https://vimeo.com/225516052
edit: I just can't recommend it enough. Just watching a few moments already has me sucked in
To me, the whole present situation seems much closer to the story line in Elysium. I've worked in factories like the protagonist. It's not as distant as it can seem.