Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago
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🇪🇭 What will it take for the people of Western Sahara to reverse decades of broken promises and gain their freedom? What lessons does Sahrawi resistance offer for nonviolent movements around the world? Join an incredible cast of Sahrawi activists and artists as they offer their answers.
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❓ More than five decades after its people were promised freedom by departing Spanish rulers, the Western Sahara remains Africa’s last colony.
➡️ While a UN-brokered ceasefire put an end to armed hostilities in the territory in 1991, the Sahrawi people have continued to live under the Moroccan armed forces' oppressive occupation. What peace exists in the area is fragile at best.
➡️ Tens of thousands of Sahrawis have fled to neighboring Algeria, where over 125,000 refugees still live in camps that were intended to be temporary.
🔶 In spite of these difficulties, a new movement, with youth at its center, is rising to challenge human rights abuses and to demand the long-promised referendum on freedom. Today’s young generation is deploying creative nonviolent resistance for the cause of self-determination. In doing so, they are persevering against a torrent of conflicting forces. While risking torture and disappearance at the hands of Moroccan authorities, they are also pushing back against those who have lost patience with the international community and are ready to launch another guerrilla war.
This film, from director iara lee, examines these tensions and chronicles the everyday violence of life under occupation, giving voice to the aspirations of a desert people for whom colonialism has never ended.
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🌎 Since 2015, 'LIFE IS WAITING: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara' has been screened in almost 100 countries, from refugee camps to red carpet galas.
🏆 The film has won 10 awards at different film festivals around the globe
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🇪🇭 #FreeWesternSahara ✋ Learn how you can ❗TAKE ACTION ❗
❇️FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM - @culturesofresistance / @iara_lee
🔔 SUBSCRIBE to our channel for more
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*if you would like to screen the film, please e-mail us at info@culturesofresistancefilms.com*
🎥 Director, Producer: Iara Lee
Co-Producer: Salah Abdelahe
Director of Photography: Jose Yeray Martin
2nd Camera: Eduardo Souto Fraguas
Editor: Martin Eller
Sound: Jordi Oriola Folch
Music: Mariem Hassan
▪️ Subtitles (CC) : /عربى / English / Português / Русский / Suomalainen / Français / Italiano/ Deutsch / Español
🇪🇭 What will it take for the people of Western Sahara to reverse decades of broken promises and gain their freedom? What lessons does Sahrawi resistance offer for nonviolent movements around the world? Join an incredible cast of Sahrawi activists and artists as they offer their answers.
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❓ More than five decades after its people were promised freedom by departing Spanish rulers, the Western Sahara remains Africa’s last colony.
➡️ While a UN-brokered ceasefire put an end to armed hostilities in the territory in 1991, the Sahrawi people have continued to live under the Moroccan armed forces' oppressive occupation. What peace exists in the area is fragile at best.
➡️ Tens of thousands of Sahrawis have fled to neighboring Algeria, where over 125,000 refugees still live in camps that were intended to be temporary.
🔶 In spite of these difficulties, a new movement, with youth at its center, is rising to challenge human rights abuses and to demand the long-promised referendum on freedom. Today’s young generation is deploying creative nonviolent resistance for the cause of self-determination. In doing so, they are persevering against a torrent of conflicting forces. While risking torture and disappearance at the hands of Moroccan authorities, they are also pushing back against those who have lost patience with the international community and are ready to launch another guerrilla war.
This film, from director iara lee, examines these tensions and chronicles the everyday violence of life under occupation, giving voice to the aspirations of a desert people for whom colonialism has never ended.
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🌎 Since 2015, 'LIFE IS WAITING: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara' has been screened in almost 100 countries, from refugee camps to red carpet galas.
🏆 The film has won 10 awards at different film festivals around the globe
==================
🇪🇭 #FreeWesternSahara ✋ Learn how you can ❗TAKE ACTION ❗
❇️FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM - @culturesofresistance / @iara_lee
🔔 SUBSCRIBE to our channel for more
===================
*if you would like to screen the film, please e-mail us at info@culturesofresistancefilms.com*
🎥 Director, Producer: Iara Lee
Co-Producer: Salah Abdelahe
Director of Photography: Jose Yeray Martin
2nd Camera: Eduardo Souto Fraguas
Editor: Martin Eller
Sound: Jordi Oriola Folch
Music: Mariem Hassan
