The Desert Child
Directed by Gilles de Maistre
Produced by Mai Juin Productions, StudioCanal
A warm, imaginative coming-of-age adventure that weaves a girl's published story about a desert-raised child with her own journey of discovery in the Sahara.
14-year-old Sun has written and successfully published a story based on an incredible story told by her late grandfather about a wild child called Hadara, who is saved by a group of ostriches when he becomes separated from his family in a storm, and is then raised in the desert amid a host of wild animals, including his best friend, a desert fox. When Sun is invited to travel to the Sahara by a local community who has heard about her book, she meets Kharouba, a Nomad girl of her own age, and realizes there may be much more to Hadara than just a character in a bedtime story.
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