Hamada
+Western Sahara in Focus
Saturday, 9/28
2:10 p.m.
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Hamada
Eloy Domínguez Serén
Documentary feature
88 mins | 2018
Western Sahara
Arabic with English subtitles
US premiere
A minefield and the world’s second largest military wall separate Sidahmed, Zaara, and Taher from their homeland that they only know from their parents’ stories. They are Sahrawis, one of the world’s most forgotten people, abandoned in a refugee camp in the middle of the desert since Morocco drove them out of Western Sahara forty years ago.
With vitality and humor, Hamada is an unusual portrait of a group of young friends who spend their days fixing cars even though they can’t take them anywhere, fighting for political change, and dreaming of a future that will never happen. With all the expectations, strengths, and illusions of being young, they all find ways to expand beyond the physical borders surrounding them.
Festivals and Awards:
Official Competition, Cinéma du Réel, 2019
Official Competition, Tempo Film Festival, 2019
Dragon Award Nominee, Göteborg IFF, 2019
Eloy Domínguez Serén is a Spanish filmmaker born in 1985. He was a film critic for radio and press before moving to Sweden in 2012 to direct his first short Pettring. His two most recent short films Yellow Brick Road and Rust, premiered at Jihlava IDFF and FIDMarseille, respectively. Hamada is his first feature-length documentary. He is currently working on The Darker it Gets, a Swedish production shot in the Arctic Circle.
