Happy Desert / 2007

Jéssica is a teenager from Brazilian Northeast. After being abused by her stepfather, she runs away to Recife, where starts to work with sexual tourism. Then, she meets Mark, a German tourist, and falls in love with him.

The Shadow of the Desert (or the Paradise Regained) / 2020

While an exodus of migrants waits to cross the deadly Altar Desert towards the US, the last Natives of the desert survive a diaspora that has them on the verge of vanishing.

Bury Us in a Lone Desert /

The story begins with a thief trying to sneak into an expensive-looking urban house to steal valuables. As he is about to leave, he is caught by an old man. The old man offers the thief his freedom for an exchange: He has to help the man die and be buried with his wife, who had passed away years ago. The old man is so deeply in love with his wife that he had put her remains in a plaster statue and has been sleeping with the statue ever since. The thief refuses at once, but as he witnesses the old man’s love for his wife, he starts to change his mind.

The Desert / 1983

A film commonly known as “Turkish Jaws” that has little to do with Jaws. From the director who brought you “Turkish Star Wars”.

Swimmers in the Desert / 2001

The true life story and adventures of László Almásy, the 'English patient', who crossed Africa in 1929 with the father of filmmaker Kurt Mayer: These events provide the motivation and outline for a critical journey through 'men's domains' in Cairo, London and Vienna. Navigation in the expanses of the memory - the dream of flying, documents from the war and of an unrequited love...

Desert Wounds / 2016

The film tells the story of Christian African Women from Sudan and Eritrea, who fled persecution at the hand of Muslims in their countries and are seeking asylum in Israel. The film follows their attempt to build a new life over a period of 5 years - in Israel and Uganda - while living under constant threat of deportation. They know that their journey is far from being over.

At the End of the Desert / 2013

In the sacred desert of Wirikuta, in San Luis Potosi, there are plans to build an open pit mine. Its inhabitants, the Huichol Indians, oppose against plans.

The tulip of the Desert / 2005

Experimental short by Fahmi Farahat

Deserter / 2019

Drama in the Desert: The Sights and Sounds of Burning Man / 2002

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.

Desert Lights / 2022

In the Atacama Desert, Antay and his friends struggle to keep their drought-stricken town afloat.

The Deserter / 2022

A deserting soldier is caught and sentenced to death and his only way to win his freedom back is to convince the judge that he had no other choice. His plead tells of both supernatural entities and an extreme fear of death.

Ladakh: Desert in the Skies / 1995

The mountainous desert of Ladakh is one of the most desolate places on our planet. Here freezing winds sweep down from the Himalayas and shape the life of its inhabitants.

Kiss in the Desert / 1927

The foreign girl Hilda falls for Shafik, a Bedouin young man who lives in a village in the desert. When his uncle Abdel Qader is killed, the villagers accuse Shafik of killing him and he is forced to flee into the desert with the members of a gang that he joins.

An Island in The Desert / 2021

Through more than thirty interviews and unpublished archive material we will discover the inspiration of “La Costa del Sol” (The Coast of the Sun) in Movies, Literature, Music, Architecture, Fashion... A true island of freedom, during the Dictatorship in Spain.

Once Upon a Time in the Desert / 2019

Khalaf is 10 years old, and he is from the desert in Kuwait in the past. He goes with his father for a trip to find a new water well for their tribe, but something happens to them that changes course of events.

Get Crude in the Desert and the Oil Gush Forth / 1975

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.

Desert Utopia: Mid-Century Architecture in Palm Springs / 2010

Southern California’s Coachella Valley, including the communities of Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Desert Hot Springs, boasts hundreds of extraordinary midcentury modern homes, public buildings and commercial structures. Modern designers such as William F. Cody, Albert Frey, William Krisel, John Lautner, Richard Neutra, R.M. Schindler, Donald Wexler, E. Stewart Williams left their collective mark on this desert paradise. Desert Utopia: Mid-Century Architecture in Palm Springs traces the history of modern architecture in Palm Springs from the first bold forays into modernist design to the preservation challenges facing the region today. Director Jake Gorst’s film features rare archival images and footage as well as interviews with historians, homeowners and the architects who helped create this mecca of modernism.

The Deserter's Wife / 1991

Nina (Fanny Ardant) is a French concert pianist, Ilan (Sharon Alexander) is an Israeli computer specialist visiting Paris. A romance springs up between them, and they get married. Not long afterward, Ilan is called into the Israeli army to serve his obligatory tour of duty. Things are heating up with Saddam Hussein (it is just before the Gulf War), who has just invaded Kuwait. Nina receives a call from the military informing her that her husband was wounded in combat. She rushes to his side and soon discovers that he was wounded by Israeli soldiers while he was in the process of deserting his post. It is clear from his own zombie-fied behavior that this allegation is true. Despite this horrifying revelation, she still loves him, but becomes increasingly estranged from the society around her because she feels shunned. On top of all this, she must soon make her concert debut with the Israel Philharmonic.

Sanmao: The Desert Bride / 2020

In 1973, Chinese writer Sanmao (Echo Chen Ping, 1943-91) marries Spanish naval engineer José María Quero while living together in the Spanish Sahara. Sanmao recounts her daily experiences in Tales From the Sahara, a book that is a best-selling phenomenon in Taiwan and China. Sanmao then becomes an icon for independent women and the protagonist of a life that takes on legendary overtones: love, adventure, literature and, finally, tragedy.