Movie

Red Dust (2025)

• January 1, 2025
• 17m

• Documentary

Overview

A couple of times a year, the sky turns red in France. Sand dust from the Sahara is passed through a difference in air pressure from North Africa to Southern Europe. This dust, a time capsule containing cesium-137 from the French nuclear tests in Algeria, covers everything. The film exposes the impact of a war that was never fought. A French veteran and archeology students share and speculate on what will be remembered and what will be hidden under the sand forever.

Director

Katja Verheul

Starring

François Hamant, Thomas Chaput, Juliette Pautrat