The Desert of the desert
2016, Portuguese. Directed by Tito Gonzalez Garcia & Samir Abujamra.
'The Desert of the Desert' is a feature documentary about one of the longest-running and least- known colonial conflicts and the plight of the Sahrawi desert nomads of Western Sahara since Morocco's 1975 invasion. Shot in Jan./Feb. 2014 in the Saharawi Liberated Territories of Western Sahara, and in the Saharawi Refugee Camps in Tindouf, Algeria, the film shows the saga of the Sahrawis, their struggle to regain their homeland and the sad paradox of a nomadic people forced to live in confinement. During production, the crew made a rare treck through 3,000 kilometers of bleak and dangerous desert, becoming unwitting participants in the conflict when their jeep was blown up by an anti-tank mine less than a kilometer from their destination on Western Sahara's Atlantic coast.
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- 1h 26m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Portuguese
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- Released
- 1 February 2016
- Original title
- O Deserto do deserto
- Country
- Brazil, Western Sahara
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The Desert of the desert (2016) was directed by Tito Gonzalez Garcia and Samir Abujamra.