Chasing the Sun: El Shatt

The film touches on some historical facts about the largest refugee camp El Shatt in the Sinai desert in Egypt during the WWII, based on materials from Croatian and international archives and interwined with the visuals of this desert non-place now. An attempt to reconstruct a fragmented memory of unknown history about migration in the Mediterranean as a transtemporal filmic journey.

Release Date

April 1, 2023

Status

Released

Original Title

Chasing the Sun: El Shatt

Runtime

20min

Budget

Revenue

Language

Croatian, English

Production Companies

Filmska udruga Šuma