Trailer of the documentary movie “Hamada” by E. Domínguez Serén

Summary :

With humour, vitality and offbeat scenes, Hamada paints an unusual portrait of a group of young friends living in a refugee camp in the middle of the Sahara. A minefield and the second largest military wall in the world separate them from their country – which they know only through stories told by their parents. They are the Sahrawi people, abandoned more than 40 years ago in this refugee camp in the middle of the desert after being driven out of Western Sahara by Morocco. Trapped somewhere between life and death, Sidahmed, Zaara and Taher refuse to give up. They spend their days repairing cars that will take them nowhere, fighting in vain for political change and using their eloquence and creativity to denounce the reality that surrounds them and push back the boundaries of the camp.

Eloy Domínguez Serén, born in Simes, Galicia, moved to Sweden in 2012. It was there that he made his first short film. Three years later, he moved on to feature films with No Cow on the Ice, which won awards at Toulouse, Filmadrid, Play-Doc, L’alternativa and Márgenes. His new documentary, Hamada, unveiled at IDFA, won the award for best Spanish film at the Gijón Festival. It is now in the Nordic Documentaries section of the Gothenburg Festival.

Trailer of the movie : https://www.eloydseren.com/HAMADA

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