Fifty Days in the Desert

Belgian director Joachim Lafosse faced the most challenging shoot of his career when he decided to make The White Knights (2015), a humanitarian drama with big French stars shot entirely in Morocco. The documentary explores his challenges and unusual working methods ofer the course of a gruelling seven-week shoot in the Sahara, offering an intimate, week-by-week exploration of the always evolving - and occasionally backfiring - creative process of a film director at work on set.