We Were No Desert

In a desert, a group attempts to perform the pericón, a traditional folk dance. Their choreography breaks with the usual steps that symbolize belonging to a binary society. Their personal stories give an insight into how

El Rey del Desierto

The guarango tree—identified by its geoglyph in the Pampa—is an effective adversary of death because of the consistency and incorruptibility of its wood and because it survives where practically everything else perishes.

Story of the Desert

In 1962 Rosita Guzman, also known as "La Mocha", cut off her only thumb to escape from prison and disappeared into the Mexican desert. 40 years later a documentary tries to find out more about this woman and the legend s

Perros del desierto

Desierto líquido

La Fraternidad del desierto

Documentary about the debate of the Little Brothers of the Gospel in the Suriyaco desert: to participate or not in revolutionary political action. The discussion is led by the Uruguayan philosopher Julio Saquero and the

Sanmao: The Desert Bride

In 1973, Chinese writer Sanmao (Echo Chen Ping, 1943-91) marries Spanish naval engineer José María Quero while living together in the Spanish Sahara. Sanmao recounts her daily experiences in Tales From the Sahara, a book

An Island in The Desert

Through more than thirty interviews and unpublished archive material we will discover the inspiration of “La Costa del Sol” (The Coast of the Sun) in Movies, Literature, Music, Architecture, Fashion... A true island of f

Flores en el desierto

The Wixarika culture (or Huichol) originates from the Mexican states of Jalisco, Nayarit, and Durango where more than 50,000 Huicholes currently live and practice their indigenous traditions. A group of huicholes wants a

The Desert Wagon

A couple of artists travels through the Mexico desert to present their puppet show.

Sweep the desert

A documentary about the daily lives, hopes, aspirations and demands of though living in the Sahrawi refugee camps of Dajla.

María del desierto

María Reiche studied for more than four decades the "largest calendar in the world", located between Nasca and Palpa, and made up of the famous geoglyphs.

South of the Desert

Beautifully filmed story set in a remote village, somewhere ‘to the south of the desert’ in Patagonia; a 13 year old boy starts to take a different view of the world around him and runs away from his parental home. Does

Aya in the Desert

Aya, an Ivorian girl who has reached the coast of Cádiz on a boat disguised as a boy, recalls the most decisive episodes of her migration while she takes refuge in the fantasy of the story of a legendary Ivorian warrior

Alma Grande en el desierto

Yaqui Indian hero -- comic-book adaptation.

Todos tienen algo Desierto

Documentary-essay short film about a inner/outter trip to the flowery desert in the north of Chile. A student film by Gabriel Lizama AKA Liz Taylor.

El último desierto

In a post-apocalyptic world,civilization has been devastated by the loss of water. The dryness of the landscape and the implacable sun of the north, conspire as the perfect enemies in the struggle for vital resources. A

My Love is a Wilderness

An unemployed young man gets a job as a night watchman, with the only responsibility of activating an alarm and not opening the doors of the place he is guarding. However, night after night, he discovers that the prostit

The Child of the Desert

An old Mexican man who lives out in the desert, alone, digging graves for the mob, comes face to face with an apparition that will change his apathy and set him on a path of redemption.

Desert in Your Mind

Through his frustrations, an obsessed novelist connects with a dimension where a walking girl encounters weird characters in a mysterious urban world, slowly driving to the peaceful nature of the desert. In this trip bet