Between Us and the World

Name: Between Us and the World
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2026-10-01
Duration: 17 min
Cast: Saad Eddine Boujemal, Abderrahman El Achhab, Badr Eddine Rachidi, Amira Boujemal, Ruby

Youth from Laayoune revisit locations that may have appeared in 1950s archival footage, speaking of life, dreams, and utopia as they search for an uncertain upstream.

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10/1/2026

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17 mins

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Documentary

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European archival footage from the 1950s documents the life of indigenous, nomadic Sahrawi children and youth in Western Sahara / Morocco. Seventy years later, local youth from Laayoune (El Aaiún) revisit locations that may have appeared in the footage. From ocean to desert to oasis, under trembling starlight, they share their thoughts on life, dreams, and utopia as they search for an uncertain upstream.

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English

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A layered meditation on displacement and time, weaving archival ghosts from the colonial era with the voices of young Sahrawi people returning to contested landscapes. It unfolds like a quiet archaeological excavation of both place and self.