Premiere of ’Dancing in the Desert’

The premiere of Dancing in the Desert will take place on Wednesday, 23 August, at 2 pm on the Delft Markt town square. Admission is free. In this beautiful documentary, filmmaker Bram van Splunteren follows the student team working on the Nuna 11. It's an exciting job, especially when you realise that the Nuna 10 caught fire during the previous Solar Challenge in Australia. Will these students succeed in designing and building an entirely new Nuna from scratch? Will it finish the race through the Moroccan desert and maybe even win it? The students sacrifice a year out of their studies and viewers get to follow them and the challenges they face while building a solar car. The documentary also offers the ultimate insight into the current student life in Delft. Lurking in the background are much bigger questions: Are solar powered vehicles the future? Can we use them to accelerate the energy transition? And can we actually still win the race against climate change? Nuna is the famous solar car with which TU Delft has won the World Solar Challenge an incredible eight times since 2001.