Hamada

Hamada

Hamada
2018 | 88' | Sweden | Documentary
Director: Eloy Domínguez Serén
Production company: Momento Film
Topics: Refugee Camps, Youth/Juventud, Women/Mujer
Languages: Hassaniya
Subtitles: English, Portuguese, Galician, Spanish
Contact: Hanne Biernmann (International Sales)

English Synopsis

With vitality, humor and unexpected situations, this film paints an unusual portrait of a group of young friends living in a refugee camp in the middle of the stony Saharan desert. A minefield and the second largest military wall in the world separates this group of friends from their homeland that they have only heard about in their parent’s stories. They are called the Sahrawis and have been abandoned in this refugee camp in the middle of a stony desert ever since Morocco drove them out of Western Sahara forty years ago. Trapped somewhere in between life and death, Sidahmed, Zaara and Taher refuse to be bothered by it. They spend their days fixing cars that can’t really take them anywhere, fighting for political change without response and together they use the power of creativity and play to denounce the reality around them and expand beyond the borders of the camp.

Sinopsis Español

Con vitalidad, humor y situaciones inesperadas, Hamada traza un inusual retrato de un grupo de amigos que viven en un campamento de refugiados en medio del desierto del Sahara. Un campo minado y el segundo muro militar más grande del mundo separa a estos jóvenes de su tierra natal, de la que sólo han oído hablar en las historias que les cuentan sus padres. Juntos, usan el poder de la creatividad y la diversión para denunciar la realidad que los rodea y expandirse más allá de los límites del campamento.

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