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Film: EL PROBLEMA - Western Sahara
December 05, 2013
EL PROBLEMA is a full-length film about Western Sahara; Spain's last colony, now Africa's only colony, occupied by Morocco.
Shot clandestinely between 2004 and 2009 in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, El Problema is a work of revolutionary cinema. It relates the little-known and under-reported story of the Saharawis, the majority of whom have been living as refugees in South-West Algeria since the 1975 Moroccan invasion of their homeland, Western Sahara.
The film includes testimonies from men and women who are prohibited by the Moroccan authorities from any physical expression of their Sahrawi identity including singing as well as public demonstrations. It shows the repression and violence against the Sahrawi people, among them multiple award-winning human rights activist, Aminetou Haidar, who was on a hunger strike for 32 days in 2009.
Highlighting heartbreaking individual stories, it also offers a strong overview of the general political landscape and is one of the most important and courageous films made in the past few years. The film has won many awards including the Amnesty International Prize - San Sebastian Human Rights Documentary Festival 2010.
Canada supports Morocco & is negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with it. Several Canadian mining companies are involved in Western Sahara in violation of Geneva Conventions on War & UN Security Council resolution.
Time: 7.30pm to 9.30pm
Venue: Beit Zatoun
Location: 612 Markham St. Toronto, ON
Website: http://www.beitzatoun.org/event/film-el-problema-western-sahara/
Phone: 647-726-9500
Categories: International
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