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“Before each oasis there is a desert to confront” (Sahrawi proverb). How is the memory of a people kept alive through years of uprootedness? How does cultural identity survive in a state of permanent exile? The story of the Sahrawi people is well known: 250,000 people camping in the middle of the desert, waiting for over 25 years to go back to their homeland, Western Sahara, today occupied and in fact annexed to Morocco. Stuck in the tent towns of Tindouf, in the refugee camps in Algeria, the Sahrawis risk to be forgotten by the entire world, but continue stubbornly to remember their own culture and to pass it on to the young generations.

Italy - 2003 - 25 mn - Betacam SP • 4/3 - Colour

Director Marco Mensa, Elisa Mereghetti Camera Marco Mensa Sound Roberta Contarini Editing Eleonora Tesser

Production Ethnos s.n.c., Via Toscana 182, 40121 Bologna, Italie Tél : +39 051 47 26 94 Fax : +39 051 47 26 94 E-mail : info@ethnosfilm.com

Sales Vitagraph, Via Schiavonia 1, 40121 Bologne, Italie Tél : +39 051 267 150 Fax : +39 051 267 310 E-mail : vitagraph@libero.it