Archive Cinema City 2008.

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The Besieged Fortress

Genre: Documentary
Country: France / Canada
Year: 2006.
Duration: 82 min

Director: Philippe Calderon
Scenario: Philippe Calderon, Georges Marbeck, Guillaume Vincent

Cast: Benoît Allemane (Narrator)

Programme selection: The Cool Kids

Synopsis:
In the middle of the African savannah, in south-eastern Burkina Faso, in the safety of their high tower, termites are hard at work when a drama turns their neat and ordered life upside down. A deluge of tropical rain floods galleries and chambers, causing cracks and breaches to appear in the termites’ castle. Not far from there, a colony of terrible, carnivorous ants prepares to attack. They’ll take advantage of the tower’s fragility to launch a veritable assault. A merciless war ensues.

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