Filled with vitality, humor and unexpected situations, Hamada paints an unusual portrait of a group of young friends living in a refugee camp in the middle of nowhere. Western Sahara is known as “the last colony in Africa” and this conflict is the longest and one of the least known ongoing disputes in the continent, but the Sahrawi people refuse to become invisible.
Cinematography
Stunning desert light that makes emptiness feel intimate.
Writing
Subtle storytelling that trusts viewers to connect dots.
Director
Eloy Domínguez Serén
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Western Sahara is Africa's last major decolonization dispute—Spain left in 1975, Morocco moved in, and the UN still calls it 'non-self-governing territory.'
Director Eloy Domínguez Serén lived in the camps for months; the teens' comfort with him shows in unguarded moments other docs would kill for.
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