Desert Movies

Father Adrien had taken the vows of eternal silence, prayer and, of course, celibacy, when he entered the Trappist Monastry of Notre Dame d'Afrique...

A woman is discovered in a shelled-out truck in the Libyan Desert by a small group of soldiers.

A teenage summer in a small town in the desert, a dysfunctional family, a rock band, a can full of glue, two boys, one girl, loads of tongue kisses,...

A young teacher arrives to take over a village school isolated in the shimmering desert. Legendary figures materialize out of wells and the desert...

If you think Burning Man is all about naked dancers tripping on substances, think again. This debut documentary by Renea Roberts takes an intelligent...

During the trip back from their vacation, a young couple is stranded in the middle of the road and they lose all forms of communication, including...

A toad bikes back home in order to water his plants.

Felipe and Claudio have a unique relationship. Somehow destiny pulls them apart and sets Felipe on a journey where he will risk everything in his...

In the midst of a civil war, a soldier wakes up in a car, surrounded by fields that have become infertile. The vehicle's driver, who had returned...

Riley Venn is being chased by spirits. His family and friends think he is crazy and delusional. A documentary filmmaker is asked by his producer to...

Running away from the police, Aden goes to the desert where he meets an uncivilized man who has a special link with Mother-Earth. He ends up by...

Everyone in his village believes that Zein is a simpleton, a half-wit, an amiable buffoon. Thus, his braying laughter and public declarations of love...

Erratic messages from her dad sends Jo deep into the California desert to sort through the remains of a frenzied, paranoid manic episode. However,...

The film follows three Palestinian refugees brought together by dispossession and hope for a better future. Hiding in the tank of a truck, the men...

This film is a realistic record of a sixty-year-old couple living in a remote village (Gurenay) in the Badain Jaran Desert of Alashan, Inner Mongolia...

Burning in the desert sun, Eduardo - a lemonade seller - is fighting the urge to drink his last and final bottle of refreshing lemonade. When a...

A couple has car trouble in the desert upon which they have a bunch of strange/surreal encounters.

Documentary short about a strange phenomenon where a phone booth that was in the middle of the Mojave Desert began to attract people around the world...

In the middle of the California desert, a stranded man must make a deal with a mechanic when he arrives at his gas station. In his attempt to find...

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...