One man, a desert, and a warzone classroom where equality is the only weapon.
Education Center for disabled children located in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria. Despite the precarious conditions in which this population lives since 40 years ago, the Polisario Front as the representative of the Sahrawi people has promoted inclusion as a way to avoid marginalization and discrimination of one of the most vulnerable populations within these territories: children with special needs. "Castro" is the man who devotes his life to this beautiful project fighting all odds: physical, psychic, social, economic, and even the incomprehensions of his own society. The Sahrawis are living (resisting) in one of the harshest deserts on Earth but Castro has the magic formula to achieve the inclusion of these wonderful beings in his society and in the rest of the world: MUSAWAT, EQUALITY.
Production
Filmed in actual Sahrawi camps—logistics are heroic
Direction
Diko lets Castro's work speak, no manipulative score
Writing
Refuses easy narratives of suffering or triumph
Director
Darwin 'Diko' Cañas Betancourt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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