Desert Paradise (2021)

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• 2021
• Ike Bertels

As a community of an idyllic remote town, what do you do when the largest employer decides to retire? The inhabitants of Oranjemund, a small paradise in the middle of the Namibian desert, are faced with that dilemma. Now that the nearby diamond mine is becoming exhausted, diamond company NAMDEB, also founder, decides to fire a large part of its employees. The harmonious community fears for its future and decides to join forces to make the diamond town attractive for tourism. Desert Paradise observes and lets the residents and the breathtaking landscape tell their own story. Will Oranjemund become a ghost town, swallowed up by the sand, or will the inhabitants manage to reinvent themselves and create a sustainable city?