Life Is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara
Life Is Waiting, a 2015 release fromCultures of Resistance Films, is currently screening at film festivals
around the world. For more information about upcoming and past
screenings, click here.
Most people think that colonialism in Africa has ended. But in the
territory of Western Sahara, the end of European rule only gave way to a
new occupation, this time by Morocco. Forty years later, the world
continues to look the other way as the Sahrawi people face arrests,
torture, and disappearances for demanding their independence.
Life Is Waiting, a new film by director
Iara Lee, chronicles this struggle. What will it take for the people of
Western Sahara to reverse decades of broken promises and gain their
freedom? What lessons does Sahrawi resistance offer for nonviolent
movements around the world? In Life Is Waiting, join an incredible cast of Sahrawi activists and artists as they offer their answers.
