14 Kilómetros - Trailer - Violeta (Aminata Kanta), a teen who lives in a riverside village in Mali, has only an arranged marriage with a lascivious old man to look forward to, and decides to run off to a faraway place.Meanwhil...( read more )e, in neighboring Niger, mechanic Buba (Adoum Moussa) is a skilled soccer player; his brother, Mukela (Illiassou Mahamadou Alzouma), suggests he should try his skills in Europe, where "nobody dies of hunger."Violeta meets the two boys when they're all loaded on a large truck, with many others, in central Niger. The route is across the pitiless expanse of the Tenere desert toward Morocco, via Algeria. Lensing exploits landscapes to the full, but the ravishing visuals seem at dramatic odds with the characters, for whom the view would be the last thing on their minds.They're dropped off in the desert a four-hour walk from Tamanrasset, in southern Algeria, but end up going round in circles. The horrors begin to mount.
