Nomad's Land - Sur les traces de Nicolas Bouvier

In 2005, inspired to retrace the author’s journey from Geneva to Sri Lanka, Gaël Métroz headed east, camera in hand, only to find that the countries that Bouvier had passed through in his Fiat Topolino were no longer as the celebrated travel writer had described them. Political crises, tribal violence and civil wars now marked the region that Bouvier once found to be carefree. Disheartened, the young Swiss director deviated from his original plan of faithfully following Bouvier’s road. Instead he started to follow in the meandering footsteps of the nomads. Travelling by foot, bus, camel and yak, Métroz discovered fulfillment in random encounters and in the harmony between man and nature. (DOK.fest München)