Mapping Survival

Nacho Corbella (2021 | 30min)

Language: English, French

Subtitles: English

Special Topic:  “Climate Justice: Perspectives and Solutions from the Global South”.

Against the wishes of tribal elders, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim’s mother made enormous sacrifices to send her daughters to school in the capital city of N’Djamena. As she grew older, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim observed Lake Chad, once one of the largest lakes in Africa, shrinking significantly and threatening the livelihoods and survival of more than 30 million residents. Moved by the suffering experienced by her people, she leveraged her education to become an environmental activist and geographer and is now helping to solve a long standing conflict in the area.

Desert PHOSfate

Mohamed Sleiman Labat (2023 | 57min)

Sunday 12.11.2023 – 14:00

Language: Hassanya, Arabic

Subtitles: English

Special Topic:  “Climate Justice: Perspectives and Solutions from the Global South”.

DESERT PHOSfate is a documentary film that weaves through the story of phosphate. It highlights connections between colonial practices, traces of anthropocentric extractions and the loss of indigenous ways of living. The Sahrawi are from Western Sahara, a region in the western north part of Africa. It’s a rich area in phosphate minerals, something that has attracted foreign extractionists since the 50s. But much of the extracted phosphate is being shipped to distant places to be used as a fertilizer in agriculture. On the other hand, the dislocated Saharawi are dependent on international aid in refugee camps. The Saharawi now live in the Hamada barren desert, where the temperatures are high and life conditions are harsh, but surprisingly, the Saharawi are doing something unexpected. They are starting to farm. The emerging phenomena of small-scale family gardens without processed phosphorus are redefining our perception about food.