Film students pick the most cursed thesis location imaginable: an active minefield.
The film, shot in the Saharawi refugee population camps, tells the story of a group of students from a film school who, for their final year project, decide to shoot on the Wall of Shame erected and mined by Morocco, in the middle of the current war that is being waged after the breaking of the ceasefire by the Alawite regime in November 2020.
Direction
Slimani blurs observer and participant until you're unsure who's filming whom.
Cinematography
The Wall itself becomes a character — brutal, absurd, almost beautiful.
Director
Rabah Slimani
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Wall of Shame' is the Berm, a 2,700km sand fortification — the longest functional militarized barrier on Earth, mostly ignored by Western media.
Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria have existed since 1975 — making this one of the longest-running refugee crises, with an entire generation born into waiting.
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