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The Sahara International Film Festival urges the Oscar -winning director Christopher Nolan to no longer film in Western Sahara. In addition, mainly controlled by Morocco, where he has just filmed scenes for his next feature film “The Odyssey”, said on Wednesday its executive director.
“We call Nolan to be united with the Saharawi people,” said Maria Carrion.
The Sahara International Film Festival (Fisahara) is held every year in Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria.
The American-British filmmaker. Similarly, who won the Oscar for the best director for “Oppenheimer”, was recently, according to Moroccan media, in the city of Dakhla, in Western Sahara, for “the Odyssey”, which is to be released in 2026 with stars like Matt Damon and Zendaya.
The Moroccan Minister of Culture, Mehdi Bensaid, welcomed to the Médias 24 site of film festival pin christopher nolan the future benefits of this shoot.
“It is obvious that this film will give more cinematographic visibility to Dakhla as a shooting destination. Consequently, no longer just tourism,” he said.
Western Sahara. a former Spanish colony until 1975, was mainly controlled by Morocco but considered as a non -autonomous territory by the United Nations. A conflict has opposed Morocco for 50 years to the separatists of the Polisario Front, supported by Algeria.
“We had the feeling that the fact that Nolan is there. to turn on a sand dune-when there are so many other dunes in the world he could have chosen, which are not in occupied territory-returned to legitimize the occupation and to strengthen colonialism in Western Sahara,” said Maria Carrion.
Now that Christopher Nolan seems to have finished shooting in Dakhla. the Festival Le Presse not to use the images film festival pin christopher nolan already filmed.
“He did not obtain the agreement of the Sahrawis to film or to use these images. He obtained the agreement of an occupying power, which does not constitute a real agreement,” insisted Ms. Carrion, saying to think that the director and his team had not been “correctly informed” of the context.
Rabat offers an autonomy plan under its sovereignty for this vast desert territory. which he considers as an integral part of the Kingdom. The separatists of the Polisario Front continue to claim the holding of a self -determination referendum.
Posted on July 30 at 7:10 p.m. AFP
Film festival pin christopher nolan
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