On the Border
Documentary Film, AT/CH/DE 2024, Farbe, 103 min., 28.3. OmeU, 29.3. OmdU
Diagonale 2025

Director: Gerald Igor Hauzenberger, Gabriela Schild
Script: Gerald Igor Hauzenberger, Gabriela Schild
Camera: Thomas Eirich-Schneider, Gerald Igor Hauzenberger, Hajo Schomerus, Joerg Burger
Editor: Nela Märki, Stefan Fauland
Music: Bernhard Fleischmann
Producers: Susanne Guggenberger, Erik Winker
Production: FrameLab Film
Co-production: Mira Film (CH), Corso Film (DE)
The history of Agadez in northern Niger is complex, and the transformation, rapid. The city of the Tuareg flourished for a long time as a hub of sub-Saharan migration, until a virtual border set up in the Sahara on the instigation of the EU cut off the local population’s main source of income. Gerald Igor Hauzenberger and Gabriela Schild have visited Agadez repeatedly, accompanying dedicated Tuareg and observing how, for a variety of reasons, a city that has always been bound to its nomadic tradition has become a pawn in geopolitical interests and developments.