Project Detail

Between Us and the World

Name: Between Us and the World
Director: Wallace Minchong Li
Genre: Climate / Environment, Experimental, Human Rights
Released: 2026
Duration: 16 min 50 sec

Young man with dark hair and black jacket stands with his eyes closed in a field of common reed.

Medium shot of a red stream running through landscape with green plant in the foreground.

Synopsis

European archival footage from the 1950s documents the life of indigenous, nomadic Sahrawi children and youth in Western Sahara / Morocco. Seventy years later, local young people from Laayoune (El Aaiún) revisit locations that may have appeared in the footage. From ocean to desert to oasis, under trembling starlight, they share their thoughts on life, dreams, and utopia as they search for an uncertain upstream.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2026

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Details

Year: 2026
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 16 min 50 sec
Format: 16mm, Digital, found footage
Director: Wallace Minchong Li
Producer: Latina Tongtong Li, Wallace Minchong Li
Editor: Wallace Minchong Li
Director of Photography: Wallace Minchong Li, Yinyun Lin
Sound: Wallace Minchong Li, James Brimmell
FX artist: Siyun Sun
Sound recordist: Yinyun Lin

Genre

Climate / Environment Experimental Human Rights

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Sanne Jehoul / onzer films

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