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Between Us and the World

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

Categories

Documentary Artist Project and Video / Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Sanne Jehoul / onzer films

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