The final event in FILEF Sydney’s series of Cultural Evenings was
SIROCCO – WINDS OF RESISTANCE
Prize-winning documentary on the plight of Western Sahara – Africa’s last colony and a UN-disputed territory.
Directed and produced by Canadian filmmaker Josh Campbell, who began the film as a research project for a Master in Journalism.
An overview of the ongoing and little-known conflict continuing since Morocco’s invasion of Western Sahara in 1975.
Australia Western Sahara Association is part of a global network of community organizations which support the right the people of Western Sahara for independence from Morocco, the last colony in Africa and a UN-disputed territory.
Here in Australia, the Association works to raise awareness of a conflict that is very little known in this part of the world.
Special guest was Kamal Fadel, representative in Australia and Asia-Pacific of Polisario, the national liberation movement aiming to end Moroccan occupation of the Western Sahara.
Kamal holds a Master of International Relations from the University of Canterbury in the UK, holds a Post-Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice from the College of Law in Sydney and is admitted as a lawyer in Australia.
Trailer for the award-winning documentary, Sirocco: Winds of Resistance. https://vimeo.com/253323965
Synopsis: Saharawi women Senia Abderahman and Aziza Brahim share not only a common struggle, but also a common inheritance of nonviolent resistance from each of their grandmothers. Such traits of resistance were forged in the crucible of a distinct nomadic culture and a violent 40-year conflict that is reaching its tipping point today. Follow them as they push back against the corporate-backed occupation of their homeland, Western Sahara.