Saturday, November 14: 3:30 pm

Since 1979, the Paris-to-Dakar Rally has invited riders to gather in Europe and race across Africa to the finish line at the continent’s western edge. In the dusty wake of 2007’s rally, Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter follows the tire tracks from Morocco to the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, from Mauritania through Mali, then finally to Senegal, pausing to observe the diverse landscapes, peoples, and cultures that the tricked-out vehicles merely zoom by. The resulting mosaic is a revelatory portrait of what Europeans look like through African eyes.

This film is part of the Along the Modern Silk Road Series