Western Saharan cinema is among the rarest on earth, emerging from a territory whose political status remains disputed and whose population is largely in exile or refugee camps. The Sahrawi film scene, nurtured partly through the Fisahara festival held in the Algerian desert camps, reflects a people telling their own story against considerable odds.
Rating: 3.5★
Western Sahara is one of those places that most people could not confidently point to on a map, and that anonymity is, in many ways, the whole problem. When Spain withdrew from its former colony in 1975, it handed administrative control not to the indigenous Sahrawi people but, through the
Genre Drama
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