Name: Desert PHOSfate - Movie screening and guest talk from Western Sahara
Start: 2026-02-28T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Tähe 29, Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia

Desert PHOSfate - Movie screening and guest talk from Western Sahara

DESERT PHOSfate is an experimental documentary film by Sahrawi artist Mohamed Sleiman Labat. It weaves through the story of phosphate, exploring the multi-layered narrations about connections to land, sand particles, plants, human and mineral displacement. The film explores ways of telling about realities, metaphors and poetics in the desert. It highlights connections between ecological justice, colonial practices, environmental violence, traces of anthropocentric mineral extractions, and the loss of indigenous ways of knowing and telling about the world.
Special guest: Hadi Kentawi, the representative of the Polisario Front of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara).
Opening words: Dr. Shpend Kursani, Lecturer in International Relations, University of Tartu.
Trailer: https://motifartstudio.com/desert-phosfate/