Wüstenschiff

Dokumentation

Regie: Violeta Ayala and Daniel Fallshaw
2009 - 78 min.

Filmmakers Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw travel to North Africa intending to make one film only to discover a hidden truth that takes them on a journey they could never have imagined.

Initially set against the Sahara in the Polisario governed refugee camps, the film turns into a political thriller when the black Saharawis start talking about a forbidden subject… Their freedom. The film follows the story of a Saharawi refugee separated from her mother as a toddler and reunited through a UN family reunion program. The reunion reveals a secret and the film quickly spirals into another world.

It becomes difficult to distinguish who are the good guys, as the ‘good guys’ turn bad and the ‘bad guys’ appear to do good. Read how Ayala and Fallshaw fight officals who don't want the sad realites revealed, and how they saved the film from being destroyed ... mehr





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Zum Film ein Interview mit Violeta Ayala and Daniel Fallshaw bei eFilmCritic

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Western Sahara: Controversial Film Exposes Slavery in Refugee Camps
17.03.2010 - allAfrica.com

One of the most controversial films shown at the recent Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) was “Stolen,” which had its U.S. premier at the festival. The film tells the story of slavery in the Polisario-governed refugee camps in Algeria. Polisario (Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Río de Oro), the nationalist movement fighting for the independence of the Western Sahara from Morocco, has operated out of Tindouf, Algeria, since the 1970s. The refugee camps at Tindouf now house an estimated 100,000 refugees ... mehr

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