Una planta en el desierto

Since 1976, thousands of Sahrawis have been living in refugee camps in Tindouf. When the war returned to Western Sahara in 2020, the filmmaker, Claudia Sánchez, tried to contact her younger Sahrawi host sister and ended up portraying the reality of an entire people. Using photographs from a workshop, voiceovers and on-screen texts, Una planta en el desierto takes us into the life on hold in the Sahrawi camps. In this way, it introduces the sensitivity of a very young artist handling, in first person, a political conflict that has been going on for decades without losing relevance. (SdB)