Rêves de poussière

{{Infobox film

| name = Rêves de poussière

| image = Rêves de poussière.png

| caption =

| director = Laurent Salgues

| producer = Sophie Salbot
Marc Daigle

| writer = Laurent Salgues

| starring = Makena Diop
Rasmane Ouedraogo
Adama Ouédraogo

| music = Jean Massicotte
Mathieu Vanasse

| cinematography = Crystel Fournier

| editing = Annie Jean

| studio = Sahelis Productions
Athénaïse
ACPAV

| distributor = Film Movement

| released = {{Film date|2006|08|23|Rencontres Cinéma de Gindou}}

| runtime = 86 minutes

| country = Burkina Faso
Canada
France

| language = French

| budget =

}}

Rêves de poussière ({{langx|en|Dreams of Dust}} or Buried Dreams) is a 2006 film by director Laurent Salgues.

Plot

Rêves de poussière tells of Mocktar Dicko, a Nigerien peasant, who goes to look for work in a gold mine in northeastern Burkina Faso. He hopes to forget the past in this prison, where the bars are made of dust and wind.

Production

The film was the first full-length feature by Salges.

The project quickly secured Avance sur Recettes and GAN Foundation funding, and gained further French and European funding since the director had obtained Burkina Faso citizenship through marriage.

The film was a France-Canada co-production between Athénaïse – Sophie Salbot and ACPAV – Marc Daigle.

The associate producer was Sékou Traoré of the Burkina Faso company Sahelis Productions.{{cite web

|url=http://www.sahelis.com/fr/references.php

|title=Productions

|work=Sahelis

|accessdate=2012-03-13}}

Reception

A reviewer says the "opening shot reminds you of a choreographed musical—only there is no music, only silence and the sounds of workers’ tools".{{cite web

|url=http://moviessansfrontiers.blogspot.com/2009/01/79-french-director-laurent-salgues.html

|date=January 18, 2009

|title=French director Laurent Salgues' debut film "Rêves de poussière (Dreams of Dust)" (2008): Infusing dignity and elegance to cinema on Africa

|work=Moviewssansfrontieres

|accessdate=2012-03-13}}

Another critic says "Cinematographed by Crystel Fournier, images are hauntingly dreamlike. Wind-swept dust is a recurrent motif".{{cite web

|url=http://grunes.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/dreams-of-dust-laurent-salgues-2006/

|title=DREAMS OF DUST (Laurent Salgues, 2006)

|author=Denis Grunes

|accessdate=2012-03-13}}

The film was nominated for the grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema - Dramatic category.

It won prizes at Tarifa 2007, Amiens 2006 and Namur 2006.{{cite web