The Sun Does Not Rise in the North

Moving across the shores between Ceuta (Spain) and Tangier, Morocco, a man and woman discover the present borders and past archaeologies of these lands that were once one and now exist separately. Human shipwrecks meet the abyss of such separation. People are trapped in a limbo between Europe and the inhospitable forests of Morocco. In the incessant search for a better life, many die crossing the Mediterranean, a sea that has become a graveyard of unconquered lost hopes. The land is cut by barbed wires that do not let people in or out, constantly expelling and containing. 

A separated couple travels through the desert and forests, wandering until they reach the edge of the borders that divide Africa and Europe. The travels entice the characters to deep reflection on the reality of their lives – on one side an European African woman who wants to return to Africa in the search of her own identity, and on the other an African man moving towards Europe, projecting dreams of a promised land. 

The sun does not rise in the north is a search and a dialogue between Africa and its diaspora about the contemporary complexities of immigration and displacement.