Sahara Lab Films
Cheikh Mohammed Horma
Cheikh Mohammed Horma was born in 1984 in a small village in the southwest of Mauritania called Bareina. He studied Medicine and worked as a journalist, before embarking on his adventure in cinema with “The Tree”.
The Tree
By Cheikh Mohammed Horma (8:46)
A lumberjack travels in the desert, carrying his provision and contemplating nature and its calm. He ends up tired under a tree shade, alone in the barren space.
Laila Ataalah
I always thought I could find myself, and I could not... I loved cinema... I found myself.
Eid
By Laila Ataalah (7:54)
A young adolescent girl shares her mother's sorrow for the absence of her father on the all-important Eid Holiday, as her mother proceeds to slaughter the sacrifice sheep for the occasion.
Jaouad Babili
Between personal quest and the desire for discovery, cinema has always been Jaouad’s favorite means of travel, to live parts of a dream.
Clanks of Silence
By Jaouad Babili (11:10)
An incarcerated man tries to dance away his loneliness, using his imagination and two “light” holes; one on the wall, and the other one on the ground.
Laila Amenzoui
There is a negative energy in this life that absorbs our souls. But cinema made me a free girl who enjoys everything by giving up all the negativities.
Fatima
By Laila Amenzoui (12:50)
Fatima is a film about the daily life and struggle of a young mother who is the cornerstone of her family.
Mohammed Fadel El Joumani
Found myself between the desert and a taste of Cinema.
Sounds and Echoes
By Mohammed Fadel El Joumani (23:30)
A journey in sound as memory of the Sahara. Using archives of the first radio station sounds of the Sahara, and a veteran journalist who spent his entire professional life collecting and telling stories of the Sahara through song, poetry and popular ordinary peoples’ histories.
Omar Mayara
A calligrapher whose love for film makes him almost forget his family.
Shaor
By Omar Mayara (11:34)
Shaor is a film about the mysteries of the Sahara space through the natural elements that man seeks in this space: Mysterious stones falling from the sky, medicinal plants and extracts emanating from tree trunks.
Najib Mounir
Crazy about Cinema because it helps me shout my existence.
AZ
By Najib Mounir (13:11)
AZ is a day in the life of a shepherd, a traditional shepherd and his relationship with the space he inhabits with his herd.
Malika Maalainine
A former farmer who rebelled against customs and traditions.
Amchakab
By Malika Maalainine (19:54)
Amchakab is a non-fiction film that takes a young woman journalist on a journey to try to experience traveling on camel back, just as her own mother did. Can she do it?
