Arlit is a case study in environmental racism set in a uranium mining town in the Sahara desert of Niger. Here European corporations extract nuclear power and profits leaving behind disease, contamination and unemployment. Ironically the primary activities of Arlit today is waiting, waiting to die of radiation related sicknesses or to emigrate to find work in Europe itself
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Title from resource description page (viewed October 17, 2017)
In French with English subtitles
Won 2005 Amiens International Film Festival, Prize of the City of Amiens