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 Director: Christopher Walker Producer: Peter Day 1 x 52 minutes for Channel 4 Independent Film and Video. 1995 Distributor: Faction Films / First Run Icarus |
Taxi to Timbuktu Alpha drives a taxi in New York - when he arrived in the city he fell in love with the limosine and had to learn how to drive. Day and night he crosses the city keeping out of trouble - guns, traffic jams, and stroppy passengers. Last year 47 drivers, mainly Africans were murdered. "Where are you from?" asks a fare, "Mali - that's M-A-L-I, the country is very poor and very dry so we come here, make some money and send it back to the family." From New York to Paris to Tokyo to the edge of the Sahara, Alpha and his village are fighting for their lives. A story of Africa and the world at the end of the 20th century.
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