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1514 Clouds Do Not Stop

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Producer(s)	VISUALLAB
Director(s)	Carlotta Piccinini
Release Date	2009
Work In Progress	No
Runtime	52 min
Format(s)	none
Language(s)	English
Youth Media	No
Educational Materials	Yes

Film Description

In 1975 the territory of Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony, were militarily occupied by Morocco, becoming the theater where war took place between Morocco and the Sahrawi people, which ended only in 1991. Since then, the UN recognized the Sahrawi right to self-determination to be exercised through a referendum, which still has not been achieved.

1514 Le nuvole non si fermano (1514 The clouds do not stop), tells the life of a people in exile for thirty years, refugee in the desert of neighboring Algeria, which claimed its independence by fighting against a state that does not recognize it and rejects its specificity. A people who, day after day, tries to survive thanks to humanitarian aid and to the determination to assert its identity, confined in refugee camps just a few hundred kilometers from their land and forcibly separated from it because of a 2500 kilometers long wall that Morocco has built in the desert.

The Sahrawi daily life is told through the eyes of a young Italian woman that we see participate in a project of international solidarity, lasting ten years now, the Saharawi Marathon.

The marathon becomes a metaphor for the gradual human path of the woman who arrives to confront with major issues concerning human nature: survival, the integrity of its identity, the struggle for freedom.

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Last Updated On:	April 08, 2010