· laatash ·
Short doc 15' | tinduf, Argelia | 2018
The Saharawi women face the thirst of the hamada, the curse of the desert, every day. They’ve built their refuge in a land where no one could survive before. For more than forty years they’ve been holding out and taking care of their people there. They ensure every drop of water is distributed according to the needs of each family … and they wait. But there’s an even more terrible thirst in their throats, for which they find no relief.
DIRECTION | SCRIPT | CINEMATOGRAPHY Elena Molina
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Lafdal Med Salem
PRODUCTION Asociación de Amigos y Amigas de la RASD de Álava
Escuela de Cine del Sahara Occidental EFA Abidin Kaid Saleh.
PRODUCTION MANAGER Amagoia Murua | Raquel Calvo
PRODUCTION ASSITANTS Sidi Brahim |Aicha Bobait | Ahmed Mohamed
2AD Matixa Otero Murua
CAMERA OPERATOR Daniel Bengoechea
PHOTOGRAPHER Mahyub Baba
EDITION Elena Molina | Begoña Ruiz
MUSIC Fernando Martínez
SOUND Lafdal Med Salem | Maitane Carballo
COLOR CORRECTION Begoña Ruiz
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Audience Award IBIZACinefest International Film Festival 2021
Best Short Documentary at FICIE International Independent Cinema Film Festival of Elche 2019
Best director CIMA award at ALCANCES Documentary Film Festival, Cádiz, 2019
Special Mention Best Iberoamerican Documentary Short Film, Shorts México 2019
Audience Award Ull-Nu International Film Festival 2019
Best Short Film Special Mention of the Jury Ull-Nu International Film Festival 2019
Media Library Official Selection Visions du Reel 2019
Official Selection Best Documentary Short Film Ethnocinetea Doc. Int. Film Festival Viena 2020
Official Documentary Selection International Festival of Documentary and Short Film Bilbao – Zinebi, 2019
Official Selection Green Shorts Interfilm Short Film Festival Berlin, 2019
Official Short Film Selection Arab Film Festival San Francisco, 2019
Official Selection Cinèma Vert, Tunesie 2019
Official Selection Directed by Women Spain 2019
Official Selection PNR Madrid International Film Festival 2019
Official Selection Fisahara International Film Festival, 2019
Official Selection Giza Eskubideen Zinemaldia/ Cine y Derechos Humanos Donostia/ San Sebastián 2019
Official Selection Censurados Human Rights Film Festival, Peru 2019
Official Selection Cortada International Film Festival, Victoria i Gasteiz 2019
Official Selection Cineambiente Torino 2019
Official Documentary Selection International Nature Film Festival Foradecamp 2019
Official Documentary Selection Protesta, Social Film Festival Vic, 2019
Official Documentary Selection Invisible Cinema International Human Rights Film festival, Bilbao 2019
Full documentary at FILMIN.es
PRESS
Noticias de Guipuzcoa: El doble camino del agua bajo la mirada femenina
Diario Vasco: Sed de agua y libertad
La Industria de Trujillo: Película inaugural Censurados Film Fest Perú
Algerie 365: Laâtach au Cinéma Vert
Reporters Algerie: Le quotidiene d’information_ Laâtach
