The Yellow Queen a road movie (2021)

One way journey from Germany to Mali on the routes of an unexpected "underground" and semi-clandestine trade. A journey whose main protagonists are a bus and its driver Christian, who lives for mechanics and for traveling. Since 2012 he has taken to Mali only Mercedes O 303 buses, which as he says: "are the best buses ever built: an indestructible chassis, an immortal engine that can easily do up to 2 million km, simple mechanics with easy assembly of spare parts". These buses can no longer circulate in Europe, but in Bamako, they are in great demand, for the above-mentioned reasons. What is considered waste in the North of the world, finds a new value in the South. "I am proud to be part of Mali's real economy, not the humanitarian one that depends on Europe's political decisions. I bring something that the Malians really need". I participated in one of Christian's trips, quickly passing through Germany, France and Spain to then slow down along the West coast of Africa: Morocco, West Sahara, Mauritania and Mali, driving through the biggest desert of the planet. I seized the opportunity to (re) discover Africa and its contradictions, and widen our horizons as "Western citizens" towards a broader and more sustainable vision of the consumer society.