''La Mort de la gazelle'' is a 2008 documentary film.

Synopsis

Since the late 1980s, a sporadic guerrilla war has plagued northern Niger somewhere in the

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. In 2007, a group of armed men attacked an army barracks. They claimed to be from the

Niger Movement for Justice The Nigerien's Movement for Justice (in French ''Mouvement des Nigériens pour la justice'', MNJ) is a largely Tuareg ethnic, northern Niger based militant group. But the MNJ also includes other nomadic ethnicities, within this area, such as the ...

(NMJ). Hundreds of men then joined the movement. Jérémie Reichenbach films some of these men, ready to fight in a very uncertain atmosphere, between war and peace. Under duress of an invisible enemy, isolated from the rest of the world, they wait for the fight.

Awards

* Brive (France) 2009

References

2008 films 2008 documentary films French documentary films Documentary films about war Films set in Niger Films shot in Niger 2000s in Niger 2000s French films {{war-documentary-film-stub