A Desert Is An Ocean

Directed by Ahmed Galal and Wadad Orfi.

On the edge of the Namibian desert, cattle farmers are looking for new land to graze their animals. The lions, who occupied these previously wild spaces, are hunted by herd guards, or even slaughtered when they attack cows. Will and Lianne Steenkamp lived for two years in a territory occupied by a 17-year-old lioness - a "queen" -, her two daughters and their five lion cubs. This film traces the process of empowering the young: after learning to hunt alone, they will have to leave the family pack and find young females to reproduce. A necessity all the greater as their species seems threatened.

This is the story of three Bedouin women, struggling within a polygamous system. Living in the Negev desert in Israel, the story is told through the eyes of a wedding photographer, Mariam Al-Quader. She herself is living under constant fear that her husband will marry "over her" (the expression used when a man chooses an additional wife). The other two women are pushed into marrying already married men, and become "second wives", forced to cooperate within a structure they despise or are afraid of.

In a ruined house, four men and two women find a nun. All these people have deserted an anonymous war.

Drama in the Desert: The Sights and Sounds of Burning Man is a full-color book (which includes a DVD) based on the captivating images of Holly Kreuter, with contributions from an additional 90 Burning Man participants, offering the reader a taste of the Burning Man experience. The DVD includes an original Score by Sean Abreu, seven slideshows featuring 560 Kreuter photographs and video interviews with 8 artists including Larry Harvey.

Buyan, an honest and wealthy rancher who is well-known in his area, organizes a rebellion against the local Mr. Behe's increase in his official tax. On his way to the south to trade, Mr. Behe ​​agrees to kill him secretly with his partner in China. As a result, Buyan barely escapes and hides in the mountains. A Chinese kung-fu teacher, along with an old man and a girl, took care of the wounded man and raised him on his feet. It tells the story of Buyan becoming a kung fu teacher, maturing in the field and then returning to his homeland and continuing his bloody struggle to avenge his spouses and ordinary people who were destroyed by Mr. Behe ​​and achieve victory.

A desert critter casts the shadow of a palm tree. No other animal has such a shadow. Can the animal exchange it? A reflection on identity and a story about the friendship of two animals that stay together regardless of their species.

An old Mexican man who lives out in the desert, alone, digging graves for the mob, comes face to face with an apparition that will change his apathy and set him on a path of redemption.

A sculptor, in the company of a disciple, isolates himself in an underground room, no longer able to identify with a society without any value. His personal revolution is no longer to create anything, but simply to wait. However, he is forced to receive unwelcome visits that keep him in touch with the absurdities of the outside world. When he finally decides to go out to the surface, he will find a world worse than when he left it.

In Israel's Negev desert, Farhan Al-Nabari (72) - a fearless arbitrator, fights to prevent the next killing between feuding Bedouin families. His tent, a "place of refuge," anchors tradition amid rising youth violence challenging state and tribal authority. As societal desperation and poverty intensify, Farhan faces a profound struggle: the State of Israel demands the uprooting of his tribe from its home of 71 years. Amid frantic reconciliation efforts between tribes, this poignant tale unfolds-a clash between ancient traditions and modern mandates. Farhan fights to preserve his community's legacy, navigating a delicate balance between the timeless laws of the desert and the new world.

The mole strands in the desert.

A young teacher in Russian is promoted school director in a small Gobi village. Upon his arrival, he uses the few available resources to gain the villager’s trust. He makes rapidly new friends, such as the a young post office lady, a tractor driver unable to express his real feelings or a zealous environmental protection inspector who is trying to arrest illegal antelope hunters. One night, the school director recognizes one of the poachers. He will have to take an important decision.

A penniless artist has a lot of trouble and in particular a tax employee who does everything he can to lock him up. Meanwhile, he meets an African woman, daughter of King of the State of Sheba. To make him free, she asks her father to cut off oil supplies to France.

In 1927/8, the cameraman Paul Lieberenz accompanied the Swedish researcher Sven Hedin on an expedition through Inner Asia from Beijing to Urumqi. Lufthansa was planning to launch a direct flight from Berlin to Beijing; meteorological observations had to be made, weather stations had to be built and the land had to be investigated for places that would make appropriate airfields. But the film is less focused on the research carried out by the 27 academics in total than on the caravans, made up of no fewer than 300 camels and numerous helpers, as they make their way with "Faustian drive" (Siegfried Kracauer), through rocky and sandy deserts.

Their huge ears locate the underground crawling sounds of beetles, larvae, and other insects in the sands of the Kalahari desert. But their resemblance to the thieving jackal lead to their inadvertent targeting by farmers defending their livestock. With their numbers dwindling, the bat-eared foxes of southern Namibia have become the passion project of veterinarian Margit Du Toit.

The assassination of Tianjizi, a taoist teacher traveling to Beijing reveals a huge conspiracy to usurp the Tang emperor and seize power by the two major forces of the current state minister and the Jianghu organization "Sky Net Sect". How will heroes such as Jin Shengnan and Luo Chonglou turn the tide and punish the evil?

Behind-the-scenes of Shōjo☆Kageki Revue Starlight 2rd StarLive "Starry Desert" concert.