Desert Movies

Antar bin Shaddad is a slave son of a slave mother in the tribe of Bani Abs. His father Shaddad, the tribe's master, refuses to recognize him. Antar...

Permaculture expert Geoff Lawton describes how he and a team of volunteers grew an oasis in arid, salty lowland, despite extremely high temperatures...

In this short film, a newlywed couple drive into Death Valley and wind up gambling for their life.

After his wife and eight year old son disappear on a beach and the police find no clues, Antoine starts investigating their disappearance himself....

On a cold desert night, a drifter and his dog make camp — but eerie sounds stir the dark, and ancient creatures crawl from the shadows.

As a child in Burkina Faso, Yacouba was sent away from home to study the Qur'an, where he and his classmates were almost starving. The young boys...

Three best friends take a trip to the desert, and their friendship is put to the test. Lior, who is openly gay, and religious Jew Elad, suddenly have...

The film Desert View is dedicated to the study of building and living in the semi - built satellite city Madinaty, located in the desert east of...

One of the world’s greatest ancient enigmas, the Nazca lines are a dense network of criss-crossing lines, geometric shapes, and animal figures...

Max Boden, an ingenuitive desert naturalist, is trying to stop the construction of a copper mine on the outskirts of 1939 Tucson, Arizona. Through a...

In West Africa, Polish intelligence sergeant Milczek discovers the bandit Sheikh Abdullah’s desert stronghold but is captured until the...

London-based artist and photographer Muzi Quawson examines the lives of people situated at the fringes of the mainstream. She is drawn to...

A rancher, thrown from his horse, must cross an inhospitable desert and avoid those who live there.

A short film about the life and death of California's most famous post-apocalyptic hell-hole, the Salton Sea.

A lone truck driver drives his load, a ferris wheel, through a remote desert landscape. Trapped in his fears and habits, he hardly dares to step out...

A young group of friends head out to a cabin in the desert. Something has landed in the desert and it needs to eat...

A sublime documentary on childhood and bereavement that’s one of several shorts the filmmaker completed while working in Algeria for Georges...

A large commercial mining company has claimed the Patagonia Mountains, and the environmentalist mother wants to enjoy the area before the digging...