Essay in the Desert

Water is a precious commodity anywhere but all the more so in the desert where competition for it can come from any quarter.

Sound of the Desert

In West Africa, Polish intelligence sergeant Milczek discovers the bandit Sheikh Abdullah’s desert stronghold but is captured until the sheikh’s wife, Jamila, secretly rescues him and follows him into safety. When Jamila

Eden – In the heart of the red desert

Namib, an incredible spot is home to the highest sand dunes on Earth, along with 3500 species of plants of incredible diversity, all adapted to the arid climate. Elephants, antelopes, lions, giraffes and rhinoceros roam

Layla the Desert Girl

Ziyad and Omar plot to kidnap the Bedouin girl Layla with the help of Kasry, to get back at Layla's cousin Al-Buraq. The playful Abla tells Al-Buraq that Layla's father has sold her to Kasry, while Kasry fails to win Lay

Struggle in the Desert

A People's Liberation Army division in Xinjiang in 1951 aids in a water conservancy project.

The Mole in the Desert

The mole strands in the desert.

The tulip of the Desert

Experimental short by Fahmi Farahat

A wall in the desert

The filmmaker presents the living conditions of the Sahrawi people who survive in refugee camps in the middle of the desert. These series of animated short-films use interviews and recounts the history of the constructio

Desert Beneath the Ocean

In his later years, the sculptor Lu Hengsheng returned to his hometown and held a desert sculpture exhibition. During this time, he recalled three behind-the-scenes stories closely tied to his artistic career. On the day

In the Desert: A Documentary Diptych

In close proximity and yet without any points of contact: In the West Bank, Israeli settlers and Palestinian farmers live next door to each other - and yet in separate worlds. Omar takes his Palestinian family from their

Antar Invades the Desert

Shadad sends his son Antarah to herd sheep after he refuses to acknowledge him as his son because of his dark skin and his mother is a slave and refuses to wed Antarah to his cousin Abla. When Banu Abs is invaded by anot

Kiss in the Desert

The foreign girl Hilda falls for Shafik, a Bedouin young man who lives in a village in the desert. When his uncle Abdel Qader is killed, the villagers accuse Shafik of killing him and he is forced to flee into the desert

Friends of The Desert

A Bedoui and a Jeddawi friends explore the desert together.

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

La pépinière du désert

Two Days in The Desert

A short film.

Debbie & Doug Drop Acid in the Desert

A husband and wife suffering from an undefinable defect in their relationship seek guidance from an "alternative" therapist who advises them to take a weekend vacation to Joshua Tree and drop acid together as a antidote

In the Same Desert, Out of Sight

Across fifteen years of fragmented memories, two girls grow from adolescent closeness into separate adult lives. As one prepares to marry, the other finds herself drawn back to a long-forgotten incident from their high s

A Desert Is An Ocean

When her mother Wendy’s body was found in the Grand Canal in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2009, Katherine Clary had few answers about what had brought about the tragic end to Wendy’s tumultuous life. Mining her mother’s letters

Sahrawis, the eyes of the desert

An approach to Sahrawi culture, different aspects of daily life, culture and the struggle of the Sahrawi people in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, and in the area of the liberated territories of Tifariti.