Hamada

by Eloy Dominguez Seren
  • 2018 Momento Film
  • 2018 Momento Film
  • 2018 Momento Film
  • 2018 Momento Film

    Synopsis

    A minefield and the second largest military wall in the world separate Sidahmed, Zaara and Taher from their homeland that they only know from their parents’ stories.
    They belong to the Sahrawis, one of the world’s most forgotten people, abandoned in a refugee camp in the middle of the desert ever since Morocco drove them out of Western Sahara forty years ago.
    With vitality and humor, HAMADA is the unusual portrait of a group of young friends living in a refugee camp in the stony Saharan desert.
    They spend their days fixing cars, even though they can’t really take them anywhere, fighting for political change and dreaming of a future that most likely will never happen.
    With all the expectations, strengths and illusions of being young they all find different ways to expand beyond the physical borders that surround them.

    Festivals

    2018
    IDFA Amsterdam
    Award for Best Spanish Film // Award for Best Spanish Director — Gijon IFF
    Companhia das Culturas/Fundação Pereira Monteiro Award for Best Emerging Director — Porto/Post/Doc FF

    2019
    Göteborg IFF
    Valencia HRFF
    Tempo Documentary Award — Tempo IDF Stockholm
    Cairo Cinema Days
    One World HRFF Prague
    Sofia IFF
    Geneva HRFF
    The Loridan Ivens – CNAP Award — Cinéma du Réel Paris
    Las Palmas de Gran Canaria FF
    BAFICI Buenos Aires
    San Sebastian HRFF
    Festival of Tolerance Zagreb
    36 Dokfest Kassel

    Cast and Crew

    Director

    Eloy Dominguez Seren