Straddling a 2,400-kilometer-long wall constructed by the Moroccan army, the Western Sahara is today divided into two sections — one occupied by Morocco, the other under the control of the Sahrawi National Liberation Movement’s Polisario Front. Drawing from stories of flight, exile, interminable waiting and the arrested, persecuted lives on both sides of that wall, this film bears witness to the Sahrawi people, their land, their entrapment in other people’s dreams. In an esthetic that sublimates the real, Lost Land resonates like a score that juxtaposes sonorous landscapes, black-and-white portraits and nomadic poetics.
Production: Zeugma Films, Cobra Films
Co-production: CBA
With the support of Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC), PROCIREP – Société des Producteurs, ANGOA, ARTE – La Lucarne, Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Communauté française de Belgique et des Télédistributeurs wallons, KODAK
2012:
Etoiles de la Scam, France, 2012
2011:
Berlinale, Germany, 02/11
CPH:DOX, Denmark, 03/11
Festival International de Cinéma indépendant de Mar del Plata, Argentine, 08/11 – Mention spéciale du jury
Festival du Film francophone de Namur (FIFF), Belgium, 09/11 – Mention spéciale du Jury
DocLisboa, Portugal, 10/11 – Prix spécial du Jury
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic, 10/11 – Grand Prix
Festival dei Popoli, Italy, 11/11
Rencontres documentaires de Montréal (RIDM), Canada, 11/11 – Grand Prix de la compétition internationale, Prix du montage
Images en Bibliothèques (France) – Film soutenu par la Commission nationale de sélection des médiathèques 2012
Rencontres documentaires de Montréal (RIDM) (Canada) – Grand Prix de la compétition internationale, Prix du montage 2011
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (Czech Republic) – Grand Prix
DocLisboa (Portugal) – Prix spécial du Jury 2011
Festival du Film francophone de Namur (FIFF) (Belgium) – Mention spéciale du Jury 2011
Festival International de Cinéma indépendant de Mar del Plata (Argentine) – Mention spéciale du jury 2011
