Movies for deserted

No red carpet leads to the International Film Festival of Sahara. Not even a road. In a refugee camp, two and a half hours by car into the Sahara desert, the festival tries to draw attention to a forgotten conflict. The daily life in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria is characterized by waiting. But the film festival “Fisahara” is arranged every year to give pleasure to the Sahrawis and bring some focus on the conflict. In April 2007 the fourth edition of the festival took place and just like previous years the Spanish organizers hoped that it would be the last. Text by: Per Liljas