FILMS
DESERT PHOSfate
2023 ǀ 58 min ǀ Documentary
DESERT PHOSfate is an artist film that tells about the impact of phosphate on the Sahrawi community and its fate, including the surprising emergence of small-scale family gardens and the knowledge of how to farm in the desert without the processed phosphorus that had caused the dislocation of the Saharawi nomads from their homeland of Western Sahara.
LAND OF MINES
2019 ǀ 09 min ǀ Documentary
Western Sahara, Land of Mines is a short film by Mohamed Sleiman Labat. Commissioned by SMACO the Sahrawi Mine Action Coordination Office, it tells the story of victims of land mines and war ruminants in WS. It also follows the Sahrawi authorities destruction of their landmines stocks.
THE YEAR OF BALLS
2019 ǀ 10 min ǀ Documentary
The Year of Balls is a short portrait film that tells about one of the years in the Nomadic Calendar where Sahrawi communities and their camel herds were bombarded by French and Spanish air forces. The film was narrated through my father’s recollections and childhood memories and how he witnessed the event as a child. The Year of Balls highlights the colonial violence as experienced by the ordinary Sahrawi families.
Home of Fire
2025 ǀ 16 min ǀ video installation
“𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝗲: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘁” , is a multi channel video installation exploring heat and counter heat elements in the desert; the entangled aesthetics of the ecological and the political aspects of heat processes in a desert increasingly characterized not only by its ecology but also by the politics of violence, militarization and technology with a direct impact on the human and other-than-human beings in the desert.
Food Dome
2025 ǀ 12 min ǀ DOCUMENTARY
The Food Dome is a multidimensional project conceived and developed by Saharawi Agricultural engineer Taleb Brahim at Algaada Center for Small Scale Agricultural Research which is an experimental site developing garden practices and projects in the Saharawi refugee camps. The Food Dome aims to bring together farming, social life and climate change solutions. This garden model develops ways to optimize water usage while maintaining the biodiversity in the food dome.