00.16.20

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The world is experiencing the highest

amount of displaced people ever,

with 70.8 million people forced from

their homes -- UNHCR (2019)

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The Saharawi Refugee Camps,

ALGERIA

00.38.00

V/O - Maglaha Salek Dedou

On the 31st of October, 1975

00.41.00

V/0 - Maglaha Salek Dedou

Moroccan invaders entered Western

Sahara

00.44.00

V/O - Maglaha Salek Dedou

with their army [when Spain pulled out

of its Western Sahara colony]

00.48.10

Screen text/interviewee

Maglaha Salek Dedou

00.48.10

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

and started bombing us heavily with

airstrikes.

00.51.20

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

The Saharawi people escaped

into nowhere.

00.55.00

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

The Moroccan invaders mercilessly

killed kids,

01.00.00

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

the elderly, Sheikhs, pregnant

and sick women.

01.05.10

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

People escaped to the Tindouf

area [Algeria]

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Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

and started living in tents again.

01.16.15

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

We as Saharawi people are angry

01.19.05

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

and extremely frustrated.

01.25.00

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

My dream is to be a film director

or a writer.

01.29.05

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

I would write about the Western Sahara

01.35.00

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Refugee Camp Filmmaking Workshop

01.46.10

V/O - Reham Ghazali

 

Palestine and Western Sahara

01.43.00

Screen text/interviewee

Reham Ghazali

Palestinian Filmmaker

01.43.20

Interview - Reham Ghazali

 

are very similar.

01.45.10

Interview - Reham Ghazali

 

Unfortunately we share the fact

01.47.00

Interview - Reham Ghazali

 

that we are both under occupation.

01.48.13

Interview - Reham Ghazali

 

I hope the next time I see you

01.49.15

Interview - Reham Ghazali

 

you’ll be in your homeland

01.50.20

Interview - Reham Ghazali

 

and you’ll have achieved independence.

01.53.05

Interview - Reham Ghazali

 

We are here to learn about

documentaries.

01.56.22

Interview - Reham Ghazali

 

What is a documentary movie?

02.00.20

Interview - workshop participant

It’s about a real story

02.03.05

Interview - workshop participant

that has an impact on the audience.

02.05.08

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Movies are weapons. That’s why

02.08.02

Interview- Reham Ghazali

we should fight for our cases with it.

02.11.04

Interview- Reham Ghazali

 My work in Gaza is mostly with

Palestinian women.

02.15.12

Interview- Reham Ghazali

Most of my [filmmaking] projects

have been

02.18.22

Interview - Reham Ghazali

about how women live under occupation

02.22.22

Interview - Reham Ghazali

and the pressure of a harsh society.

02.31.00

Interview - Reham Ghazali

This is a big chance for you to be

in this field,

02.34.08

Interview - Reham Ghazali

to be [filmmakers] like us. 

02.36. 18

Interview - Reham Ghazali

And hopefully next time I see you

02.38.14

Interview - Reham Ghazali

you’ll be like us.

02.40.05

Interview - Reham Ghazali

What I can say about Palestine

02.42.17

Interview - Reham Ghazali

is that the conditions there are

getting worse

02.45.18

Interview - Reham Ghazali

and worse because of the daily struggles

02.48.01

Interview - Reham Ghazali

that Palestinians go through.

02.50.18

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Gaza is currently under the Israeli siege.

02.53.21

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Gaza has been under siege for about

02.57.10

Interview - Reham Ghazali

seven or eight years.

02.59.08

Interview - Reham Ghazali

This siege has made Gaza isolated

03.04.05

Interview - Reham Ghazali

from the world.

03.06.08

Interview - Reham Ghazali

It made the Palestinian case look small

03.09.11

Interview - Reham Ghazali

or insignificant. 

03.12.05

Interview - Reham Ghazali

People from Palestine only care 

03.14.08

Interview - Reham Ghazali

about electricity, and their own struggles.

03.17.08

Interview - Reham Ghazali

I think Israel’s main goal was

03.20.12

Interview - Reham Ghazali

for people to eventually care less about

the case 

03.23.09

Interview - Reham Ghazali

and more about their daily struggles

03.25.12

Interview - Reham Ghazali

or their own personal problems.

03.27.20

Interview - Reham Ghazali

The siege caused huge unemployment,

03.30.07

Interview - Reham Ghazali

the passages [to leave] are closed.

03.32.16

Interview - Reham Ghazali

This has caused a lot of poverty. 

03.34.24

Interview - Reham Ghazali

There is no business or trading

at all in Gaza. 

03.37.21

Interview - Reham Ghazali

 I need to focus the camera

03.39.18

Interview - Reham Ghazali

 I focus on what I want to film.

03.45.11

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

Reham is a strong young woman

03.47.05

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

who has come from a very far country.

03.49.16

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

She started teaching us a lot of things

03.51.13

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

like how to shoot videos,

03.53.18

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

and how to edit your movie yourself.

03.56.14

Interview - Reham Ghazali

This is the camera application alright?

03.58.05

Interview - Reham Ghazali

I’m going to launch the application.

04.00.06

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Oh my God!

04.01.16

Interview - Reham Ghazali

(Storage full) damn it. 

04.03.20

Interview - Reham Ghazali

This is the video camera application.

04.05.22

Interview - Reham Ghazali

What type of scene is this?

04.07.23

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Close. 

04.09.08

Interview - Reham Ghazali

It's close.

04.12.02

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Now that my hand is closer to my body

04.14.09

Interview - Reham Ghazali

what is it?

04.16.04

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Medium.

04.17.11

Interview - Reham Ghazali

And when I go all the way to the back

04.19.21

Interview - Reham Ghazali

what is the type of the scene then?

04.22.05

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Yes, correct it’s wide angle.

04.25.19

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

Are you rolling?

04.27.07

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

The difficulties of living here as refugees

04.31.08

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

are the very high temperatures

04.34.20

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

and strong sandy winds,

04.39.10

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

the heavy rain that destroys

04.43.15

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

our houses and schools.

04.47.13

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

The losses are very great.

04.53.11

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

Unemployment here is extreme.

04.56.23

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

In the camp, men struggle

05.00.14

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

a lot to find a job.

05.03.20

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

Most men here work with exporting

05.06.08

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

and importing goods or delivering goods

05.09.11

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

to or from the camp.

05.26.16

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Saharawi people hosted us and cooked

05.29.03

Interview - Reham Ghazalis

their traditional food for us, and

05.30.22

Interview - Reham Ghazali

prepared their delicious traditional tea.

05.35.00

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Tell me if this is a good idea...

05.37.10

Interview - Reham Ghazali

I’m thinking of dressing up like

a Saharawi woman

05.39.15

Interview - Reham Ghazali

by putting a scarf on my head.

05.42.00

Interview - “Haima” household

It actually fits you!

05.44.21

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Everything fits me!

05.47.08

Interview - Reham Ghazali

I can pull off Palestinian and Saharawi

clothes!

05.52.24

Lady on the street

Cover your head!

05.58.16

Lady on the street

You look like a Saharawi now.

06.04.16

Interview - Reham Ghazali

I arrived at the desert yesterday.

06.08.12

Interview - Reham Ghazali

I’ve sent you a few pictures.

06.11.11

Interview - Reham Ghazali

It’s a proper desert with tents

and everything!

06.15.05

Interview - Reham Ghazali

All of our bags are still at

Madrid airport! 

06.20.13

Interview - Reham Ghazali

I don’t even have clothes,

06.22.13

Interview - Reham Ghazali

I’m still wearing the same clothes.

06.24.13

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Most of the bags just did

not arrive unfortunately.

06.26.19

Interview - Reham Ghazali

The bags might arrive

06.28.21

Interview - Reham Ghazali

today or tomorrow.

06.32.00

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Yes I’ve eaten and everything is fine. 

06.43.00

Workshop participant

I have always had in mind a certain

06.45.09

Workshop participant

time setting for my story, 1975 and 1976

06.47.10

Workshop participant

This time frame talks about

06.49.05

Workshop participant

the displacement of people

06.51.10

Workshop participant

from Western Sahara.

06.52.21

Workshop participant

There was a lot of random bombing

06.55.08

Workshop participant

from military jets.

06.57.08

Workshop participant

There were pregnant women that 

07.01.20

Workshop participant

delivered their children during

the displacement.

07.06.16

Interview - Reham Ghazali

I think there has been a lot of films

about the forced migration.

07.19.16

Interview - Reham Ghazali

I’m eating unusual food here! 

07.22.14

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Everything is different.

07.23.12

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Even the tea we have here tastes weird.

07.27.00

Interview - Reham Ghazali

But you really enjoy and eat with love,

07.29.17

Interview - Reham Ghazali

even though their capabilities with food

07.31.24

Interview - Reham Ghazali

are limited you still enjoy it.

07.37.00

Interview - “Haima” household

You haven’t eaten.

07.39.02

Interview - Reham Ghazali

I have eaten thank you. I’m really full.

07.42.02

Interview - “Haima” household

Why don’t you eat some

chicken or meat?

07.51.10

Interview - “Haima” household

You work too hard

and you don’t eat enough!

07.54.22

Interview - Reham Ghazali

I really had enough food.

07.57.01

Interview - Reham Ghazali

I had breakfast and lunch today.

08.04.08

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Tell me why do you drink tea three

times a day?

08.09.04

Interview - “Haima” household

It's culture.

08.11.03

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Yes culture, but there has to be a reason

08.14.10

Interview - Reham Ghazali

behind these cultural habits?

08.16.00

Interview - “Haima” household

It’s our grand grandparent’s traditions.

08.17.22

Interview - “Haima” household

They used to drink tea

three times a day.

08.33.19

Interview - Reham Ghazali

I’m thinking we should make

a simple idea...

08.38.18

Interview - Reham Ghazali

We are interviewing you based

on you being  

08.40.19

Interview - Reham Ghazali

a Saharawi that respects her culture

08.42.16

Interview - Reham Ghazali

and traditions by dressing in a specific

08.44.23

Interview - Reham Ghazali

way or through working with your henna.

08.47.03

Interview - Reham Ghazali

We’ll interview you and ask you

08.49.03

Interview - Reham Ghazali

about your henna work.

08.50.18

Interview - Reham Ghazali

What kind of art do you work with?

08.52.18

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Who are your clients?

08.54.11

Interview - Reham Ghazali

What does henna mean to you?

08.56.02

Interview - Reham Ghazali

We’d like to see you working with henna.

08.58.01

Interview - Reham Ghazali

That’s it! Western people would like

to learn about that.

09.01.01

Henna Artist

It’s the people I’ve been doing

a workshop with.

09.03.19

Henna Artist

They want to come to the tent to film.

09.36.10

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Please hurry up.

09.38.00

Interview - Reham Ghazali

My friend we’re racing against time

09.40.12

Interview - Reham Ghazali

because of the battery issue.

09.43.19

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Here I am trying to focus on her face.

09.47.00

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Set the focus in "settings".

09.52.13

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Look here, do you think this looks fine?

09.57.12

Interview - Reham Ghazali

I’m very worried about the battery.

09.59.24

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Oh dear God help me.

10.05.18

Interview - Reham Ghazali

My friend Hayat.

10.08.01

Interview - Reham Ghazali

What are you guys talking about?

10.10.12

Interview -- Hayetna Mohamed Deid

 

We’re just chatting about random things.

10.12.15

Interview - Reham Ghazali

How long will it take

10.13.20

Interview - Reham Ghazali

for the drawing to be done?

10.15.08

Interview -- Hayetna Mohamed Deid

 

It’s going to take a while,

10.16.20

Interview -- Hayetna Mohamed Deid

 

she’s thinking what to draw

10.18.05

Interview -- Hayetna Mohamed Deid

 

and each finger has a different printing

10.19.18

Interview -- Hayetna Mohamed Deid

 

so she needs to focus.

10.25.22

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Please talk loudly and don’t be shy.

10.29.22

Interview -- Hayetna Mohamed Deid

 

How long did it take for you to learn

10.32.20

Interview -- Hayetna Mohamed Deid

 

how to make and draw with henna?

10.35.05

Henna Artist

One year.

10.37.21

Interview -- Hayetna Mohamed Deid

 

Why did you choose henna specifically?

10.40.13

Henna Artist

Because it’s part of our culture

10.42..06

Henna Artist

and I want that to live on. 

10.44.00

Interview - Reham Ghazali

What does Henna mean to you?

10.46.15

Henna Artist

It’s my talent, I love it.

10.49.21

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Ok, repeat the sentence you just said

10.52.00

Interview - Reham Ghazali

but say it as a full sentence.

10.54.10

Interview - Reham Ghazali

I have been doing henna,

10.56.14

Interview - Reham Ghazali

young women come to me during

10.58.20

Interview - Reham Ghazali

weddings to get their hands done.

11.00.19

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Must I talk for you?!

11.02.14

Interview - Reham Ghazali

What’s wrong?!

11.04.03

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Let’s wrap up please.

11.09.06

Henna Artist

We do have different types of henna.

11.12.24

Henna Artist

The henna we use for weddings

11.15.04

Henna Artist

is completely different.

11.17.09

Interview - Reham Ghazali

You were talking all this time to her,

11.18.16

Interview - Reham Ghazali

why did you not prepare her?

11.21.00

Interview -- Hayetna Mohamed Deid

 

I tried my best, she’s very shy now.

11.23.10

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Yes! She talked much more in

the other tent.

11.24.18

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Don’t be shy!

11.28.12

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Why do I make movies? 

11.30.16

Interview - Reham Ghazali

I think movies express how I

feel way better.  

11.33.03

Interview - Reham Ghazali

I don’t understand any other language

11.35.10

Interview - Reham Ghazali

in the world but the language of cinema.

11.44.00

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Today we woke up and it was very windy.

11.47.01

Interview - Reham Ghazali

So there is sand in the air.

11.49.04

Interview - Reham Ghazali

God help us, you know when you walk in

11.52.07

Interview - Reham Ghazali

dusty weather and your eyes hurt badly?

11.55.19

Interview - Reham Ghazali

I don’t have any eye drops. Remember

11.58.07

Interview - Reham Ghazali

 that my bag is not with me now.

12.05.17

Interview - Reham Ghazali

It seems quite windy.

12.07.12

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Do you think winter has started? 

12.09.23

Interview - “Haima” household

It is getting colder yes. Thank you God. 

12.13.11

Interview - Reham Ghazali

What do you do in winter?

12.15.01

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Do you stay inside the tents?

12.16.15

Interview - “Haima” household

At night we stay inside all the time.

12.33.16

Hayetna Mohamed Deid

 

Whatever you think is not useful 

12.35.08

Screen text

Hayetna Mohamed Deid

Workshop Coordinator

12.35.24

Hayetna Mohamed Deid

 

information we need to edit it out.

12.39.05

Hayetna Mohamed Deid

 

We only want the good questions 

12.42.04

Hayetna Mohamed Deid

 

from the interview.

12.44.04

Hayetna Mohamed Deid

 

Any parts you see that you think 

12.46.10

Hayetna Mohamed Deid

 

we can edit out we should do it.

12.50.18

Hayetna Mohamed Deid

 

Focus on what she is saying

12.53.14

Hayetna Mohamed Deid

 

or if she’s repeating.

13.00.03

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

I learned a lot about production.

13.02.00

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

I learned how to put scenes together.

13.03.16

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

It’s been a great experience.

13.05.07

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

as I received a lot of useful information

13.06.20

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

about editing and producing.

13.08.06

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

I learned how to trim and crop scenes.

13.09.19

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

I’m very happy.

13.26.08

Screen text

Reham's clothes

finally arrive.

13.40.08

Interview - Reham Ghazali

The story should be true

13.41.22

Interview - Reham Ghazali

and you should do something you love.

13.43.04

Interview - Reham Ghazali

What we did here was truly

13.44.23

Interview - Reham Ghazali

something I enjoyed and loved.

13.46.05

Interview - Reham Ghazali

The film about henna was beautiful.

13.47.18

Interview - Reham Ghazali

There was a problem with the interview.

13.49.04

Interview - Reham Ghazali

She did not talk properly

13.50.14

Interview - Reham Ghazali

or provide us with the right information

13.52.05

Interview - Reham Ghazali

I think she could have done better.

13.53.16

Interview - Reham Ghazali

We were more dependent on the scenes

13.55.12

Interview - Reham Ghazali

than the interview which was not ideal.

13.58.11

Interview - Reham Ghazali

You as a Saharawi person,

14.01.00

Interview - Reham Ghazali

did you feel the story represents you?

14.03.00

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

The idea of the henna was a great idea

14.05.07

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

It is part of our culture and traditions.

14.10.13

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Perfect. Now I’d like you to tell me

14.13.09

Interview - Reham Ghazali

can you at any time use your phone’s

14.17.01

Interview - Reham Ghazali

camera and shoot a film? 

14.20.03

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

I choose the story,

14.22.15

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

review properly and start filming it.

14.27.24

Interview - Reham Ghazali

There are a lot of stories you can film

14.30.16

Interview - Reham Ghazali

and talk about. 

14.32.07

Interview - Reham Ghazali

What would your next story be about?

14.35.05

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

The case of the Western Sahara.

14.36.24

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

The story about our case and struggles

14.40.02

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

as Saharawi people. 

14.42.13

Interview - Maglaha Salek Dedou

How we cope with daily struggles

as Saharawi.

14.46.03

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Show your culture and tradition to

immortalise your land.

14.49.08

Interview - Reham Ghazali

Show that there is a land

14.52.11

Interview - Reham Ghazali

that you need to get back to.

14.56.02

Interview - Reham Ghazali

You need to prove to the world

14.59.04

Interview - Reham Ghazali

about our daily struggles,

15.02.17

Interview - Reham Ghazali

using video...

15.05.17

Interview - Reham Ghazali

through art and politics.

15.10.14

Interview - Reham Ghazali

It was a unique experience for me

15.12.18

Interview - Reham Ghazali

to come here and teach young women

15.14.07

Interview - Reham Ghazali

from the Western Sahara.

15.16.00

Interview - Reham Ghazali

In a way we also taught them

15.17.19

Interview - Reham Ghazali

that as young women they should have a

15.20.10

Interview - Reham Ghazali

weapon that they use to fight for

their case,

15.22.14

Interview - Reham Ghazali

even if the weapon was a

simple short film, 

15.24.24

Interview - Reham Ghazali

especially considering that

most of the world

15.27.10

Interview - Reham Ghazali

does not know anything about this place

15.29.14

Interview - Reham Ghazali

even, surprisingly, in the Middle East

15.31.22

Interview - Reham Ghazali

and Palestine.

15.36.14

Screen text

This documentary was

produced during the

FiSahara Festival by

Neil Shaw.

 

www.neilshaw.tv 

 

TRANSLATIONS: Adnan Al Mouselli

MUSIC: "Salt Road" by Eino Toivanen, kongano.com

"Retro Dreamscape" by Twin Musicom (twinmusicom.org)

"Looked back, saw nothing" by Twin Musicom (twinmusicom.org)

"Wilderness" by Eino Toivanen, kongano.com

"Non Angular" by Eino Toivanen, kongano.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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