A Desert Is An Ocean

When I heard that my local comic book shop in Brooklyn was temporarily closing due to COVID-19, I reached out to its community to learn what comics mean to them.

A young Brazilian, who has just started working in a huge forest in Berlin, is dragged into a nightmare involving the German colonial past when he tries to find a girl lost in the woods.

Latgale is a land on the very eastern edge of the European Union. Sometimes it seems like a land in the middle of a body of water. At other times, it seems a desert with the ark of rescued humanity all covered by sand. The film presents a land that is made by people, spiritual and physical extremes of living and thoroughly Christian resurrection.

An oasis lost in the Saharan desert more than 700km from Algiers. A society still functioning on centuries-old rituals. The only connection to the city is a bus that passes once a day. Moussa, disabled from birth, lives there with his sister Zineb; They try, together, to reconstitute a family unit that the war has destroyed. The family is the dream of the idyllic times of childhood, of times when parents took all the responsibilities. Moussa is perfectly independent, although he has no arms, he nevertheless loves being cared for by his sister. Zineb, for her part, does not dare to face the new world that a marriage would constitute. Life passes punctuated by the same gestures. Zineb takes the bus to go to work at the date packaging factory. Moussa goes to see the schoolmaster, draws or dreams of Mériem, the woman he loves. A rose secretly grows in the sand, which Moussa waters every day.

The setting for this tale is an inn where people come from all corners of China every 5 years to witness and participate in a prestigious horse race. However, the inn is also swarming with thieves and con-men looking to score. Angela Mao plays the innkeepers daughter and she sends the villains back to where they came from in a series of great fights. Angela Mao using the Snake fist is a must see.

In a vast desert area somewhere at the border between Mongolia and China, Hungai lives together with his wife and child. Dutifully, Hungai plants little trees in the desert. After his wife embarks on a long trip to a hospital in the capital Ulaanbaatar to have their sick son examined, Hungai starts to drink out of loneliness. One day, a North Korean fugitive and her son ask for shelter in his home.

A story of a mother, in village of Thar desert in border area, who sacrificed her motherhood for the justice to her country and for a soldier whom she also said to be her son. She did not even thought for a single minute for her only son who could get into difficulty.

In Mexico there are just over 150 films a year, half of them have support or encouragement from the State for their production, only half get projected on a screen commercially or in Festivals and only some of these films are independent. A documentary that arises from the same filming of an independent film, filmed for 4 weeks in Durango in the midst of wonderful landscapes.

The story of Chen Shishiang, the chief bodyguard master of the Yixing Bodyguard Guild, who is forced to take the last mission, and who is forced to fight against the Black Fist Gang in the crisis-ridden Black Light Inn

In 1962 Rosita Guzman, also known as "La Mocha", cut off her only thumb to escape from prison and disappeared into the Mexican desert. 40 years later a documentary tries to find out more about this woman and the legend she created.

Osman Adi Beyk was shot dead by Haghighat. Moghan Khan took his son (Brazil) to his wife to raise him like his own child.

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 to face each other's life choices. And Yossi - Where the hell is Yossi?

Moti Khan, a musically gifted child from the lower caste Muslim Manganiyars of the Thar Desert, is forced to sing and play music for their ancestral patrons in order to survive, even though he finds it humiliating. Sattar, his father, wants Moti to study and make a career outside music. But Moti aspires to be a successful singer so that he is treated respectfully. He leaves his village behind and sets out on a journey to discover his music.

Three teachers journey to the jungle highlands to teach local children. As they adjust to a new lifestyle, they begin to learn new things and connect with the village.

In the deserts of the Middle East, circa 1930s, a half-Arab-half-French adventurer named Aldar woos the Princess Yasmin while engaged in selling guns to warring factions.

On a pilgrimage to Mashad from Tehran, a couple's transportation breaks down, far from any major town. The husband, a photographer, seeks help at a nearby village and encounters a teacher who offers to help. Whilst the husband and teacher go off to find a spare part, the wife, who used to be a teacher, takes over the teaching lessons in the village. It is clear that the children live there, in this strange deserted place, without any men, save the teacher and an old signal guard. As the day draws on, the children help to bring a new hope and life into the wife's heart.

Saving the desert from being watered (to grow cotton) with water containing pesticides and other chemicals and that end up killing sheep, camels and other animals of the desert. And yet, ‘Turkmen without the desert is dead,’ says a shepherd. The desert saved the Turkmen people who could hide in the desert from attacking tribes. Portraits of old men and the message that saving the desert is to save the nation.

Theo tries to reunite with his family. He rearranges his apartment and leaves everything ready for the return of his mother, who will be free again.

The life-cycle in the coastal desert, represented by the daily life of María and Lidia and their relationship with the territory; this cycle is threatened by the progress and inherent finitud of their lives.