List of films shot in Mauritania

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Mauritania is a beautiful country of great desert landscapes and ocean coastline. Parts of these films were shot there:

[edit] Feature films

• 1984 : Fort Saganne, directed by Alain Corneau, with Gérard Depardieu and Sophie Marceau.
• 1997 : The Fifth Element, directed by Luc Besson, with Bruce Willis and Gary Oldman.
• 1997 : The Books Under the Sand, documentary directed by Arnault Labaronne.
• 2000 : Life Without Death, documentary directed by Frank Cole.
• 2001 : Le Peuple migrateur, documentary directed by Jacques Perrin, in the Parc National du Banc d'Arguin.
• 2002 : Heremakono (En attendant le bonheur), directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, with Khatra Ould Abder Kader and Maata Ould Mohamed Abeid.

[edit] Short films

• 2005 : Mad pigeon, a series of short films directed by Julien Vergne, with Awa and Soya Watt.