1514 CLOUDS DO NOT STOP
Documentary, 30’, Algeria 2009 – 2010.
In 1975 the territory of Western Sahara, 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.
CREDITS
a VISUAL LAB production,
in collaboration with EL OUALI, SAHARA MARATHON e VISIONI TRASVERSALI,
based on an idea by CARLOTTA PICCININI and UMBERTO SARACEN,
production and general organization UMBERTO SARACENI,
marathon runner CRISTIANA RAGGI,
directed by CARLOTTA PICCININI
photography and cameraman CARLOTTA PICCININI and GIULIA MASSIGNAN,
live recording audio engineer ELISABETH ARMAND
editing CARLOTTA PICCININI, WALTER CAVATOI, MAURA COSTANTINI
sound designing editing and mixing JAN MAIO
Color Grading WALTER CAVATOI
translation from Hassanya to Italian YACOUB MBAREK, FADEL ABID, LAROUSSI MOHAMED LAMINE, OMAR ZEIN
Sahrawi camps logistic MATTIA DURLI ILARIA
guide and simultaneous translation MOHAMED HAMADI OMAR
italian subtitles review CARLOTTA PICCININI MAURA COSTANTINI
english subtitles translation ALESSIA CALAMANDREI
press office and communication VIVIANA DASARA MATTEO DAVIDE SCORZA
web designer MATTEO RAFANELLI RKINO Communication
graphics KSENIJA SAVICEVIC – I MUSICANTI NON DORMONO MAI
Original soundtrack by JAN MAIO, ANDREA MARTIGNONI, BARTOLOMEO SAILER, SALVATORE ARANGIO.
Original soundtrack by JON HOPKINS
“LIGHT THROUGH VEINS”
Written and performed by Jon Hopkins
licensed courtesy of Domino Recording Company Ltd.
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