Rashōmon in the Sahara is the result of a research project funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation in Duesseldorf. An international team travels from different parts of Europe to document the so-called "Ifni-Sahara War", which took place between 1957 and 1958. It collects dozens of testimonies of combatants who took part in the conflict in Paris, Barcelona, La Unión, Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakech, Sidi Ifni, Tan Tan, Tarfaya, El Ayoun and Edchera.
The Ifni-Sahara war was fought in 1957-1958. The belligerents were, on the one hand, the National Liberation Army made up of mainly Moroccan military cadres, but with a troop made up of inhabitants of the Ifni region and Spanish Sahara; on the other hand, the Spanish and French colonial armies. The aim of the Rashōmon project was to recover the memories of the veterans, trying to bring voices and memories out of oblivion. The idea was to place the story of the former LNA members and indigenous troops in the colonial armies that confronted them in its historical context and restore the complexity of the related versions in a polyphonic narrative through the film.
Inspired by the film Rashōmon by Akira Kurosawa, in which a single event is explained from different points of view, this film brings together multiple narratives that make up a complex image of those related events.
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it is an excellent documentary on the colonialism, still ongoing, in Africa. I would love to watch more like this. What I would love even more is to watch the end of it, today... Africa to the Africans, Sahara to the Sahrawis!
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there seems to be a problem with the video from 15:30.