Pedro Pérez Rosado : 2012
Tears of Sand
Fatimetu was born to a Sahrawi family in a Saharan refugee camp in Algeria but at the age of ten was sent to live with foster parents in Spain. Following the death of her mother she returns to the camp after sixteen years. Her brother, Jatri, now expects her to stay and look after her sister Hayat, who teaches mentally disabled children, and who herself has a physical disability. Though Fatimetu had different plans, namely a boyfriend back home, the relationship seems to not really be working out. Unlike the other women, Fatimetu can drive and finds work transporting animals, meat and bread from one administrative district to another with Hayat in tow. In time, the Sahrawi people become accustomed to the woman who tears about the desert without a hijab in her beaten up jeep. But Fatimetu is torn between life in the desert and her memories of her family and friends in Spain.
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