Screening: Sun, 6 November 2011, 4:00pm
Venue: Frontline Club
(Amnesty International Prize, San Sebastian Human Rights Documentary Festival 2010)
Shot clandestinely between 2004 and 2009 in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, El Problema is a work of revolutionary cinema. It relates the little-known and under-reported story of the Saharawis, the majority of whom have been living as refugees in South-West Algeria since the 1975 Moroccan invasion of their homeland, Western Sahara. Highlighting heartbreaking individual stories, it also offers a strong overview of the general political landscape and is one of the most important and courageous films made in the past few years.
Dir. Jordi Ferrer Cortijo and Pablo Vidal Santos
Western Sahara/Spain, 2010, 82 mins
Print Source: filmmaker
FILM AFRICA 2011, 8 oct 2011