Arlit : deuxième Paris / un film de Idrissou Mora Kpai ; [produced by Jeanette Jouili].

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Mora Kpaï, Idrissou, director, producer.

Jouili, Jeanette, producer.

California Newsreel (Firm), presenter.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Uranium mines and mining--Environmental aspects--Niger--Arlit.

Uranium miners--Diseases--Niger--Arlit.

Arlit (Niger)--Economic conditions.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (78 minutes)

Other Title:

Arlit - : the second Paris

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 2004.

Language Note:

In French with English subtitles.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Arlit is a case study in environmental racism set in a uranium mining town in the Sahara desert of Niger. Here European corporations extract nuclear power and profits leaving behind disease, contamination and unemployment. Ironically the primary activities of Arlit today is waiting, waiting to die of radiation related sicknesses or to emigrate to find work in Europe itself.

Notes:

Won 2005 Amiens International Film Festival, Prize of the City of Amiens

Title from resource description page (viewed October 17, 2017).

OCLC:

1009104834