Experiencing Interruptions?

انتظر - I wait

It has been 40 years since the Saharawi population became refugees in Algeria because of the Moroccan occupation. As the POLISARIO government tries to solve the conflict with institutional help, Saharawi youngsters advocate for armed conflict. While they wait, the cinema will be their only weapon.

  • Adrian Diaz Villafuerte
    Director
  • Loreto Garcia Saiz
    Director
  • Adrian Diaz Villafuerte
    Writer
  • Loreto Garcia Saiz
    Writer
  • Adrian Diaz Villafuerte
    Producer
  • Loreto Garcia Saiz
    Producer
  • Sidibrahim Najem
    Key Cast
    "Assistant director"
  • Mahyub Mohamed
    Key Cast
    "Camera assistant"
  • Sahara Cinema School "Abidin Kaid Saleh"
    Co-producers
  • Martin Fernandez de Castro
    French subtitles
  • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
    Cinema School
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    Human rights, War, Political conflict, Refugees, Migration, Youth, Cinema
  • Runtime:
    16 minutes 20 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 1, 2019
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Algeria
  • Language:
    Arabic, Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Manchester Student Film Festival
    Manchester
    United Kingdom
    June 4, 2019
    UK Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Mujeres tras la cámara
    Madrid
    Spain
    June 27, 2019
    Spanish Premiere
    Finalist
  • HUMANO International Rights Film Festival
    Tijuana
    Mexico
    September 27, 2019
    Official Selection
  • FISahara
    Tindouf
    Algeria
    October 15, 2019
    Official Selection
  • EUREKA Film Festival
    Bogotá
    Colombia
    September 12, 2019
    Official Selection/International Competition
  • Festival Internacional Cortos de Vista
    Chiclayo
    Peru
    October 24, 2019
    Official Selection
  • CYLNEMA en corto
    Valladolid
    Spain
    October 4, 2019
    1st Prize (Student Category)
  • SEMINCI
    Valladolid
    Spain
    October 19, 2019
    Official Selection (Quercus)
  • ENERGA Camerimage
    Torun
    Poland
    November 9, 2019
    Official Selection, Out of Competition
  • Global University Film Awards
    Hong Kong
    China
    April 2, 2020
    Asia Premiere
    Official Selection (Documentary Category)
  • FIDÉ BRASIL
    Curitiba
    Brazil
    November 7, 2019
    Official Selection
  • Festival de Derechos Humanos de Barcelona
    Barcelona
    Spain
    November 15, 2019
    Official Selection
  • First Frame International Film Festival
    East Sarajevo
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    November 14, 2019
    Official Selection
  • Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival
    Sassari
    Italy
    November 24, 2019
    Italy Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Festival Caminhos do Cinema Portugues
    Coimbra
    Portugal
    November 22, 2019
    Portugal Premiere
    Official Selection (Ensaios)
  • Festival de Cortometrajes de Iscar
    Iscar
    Spain
    November 15, 2019
    Official Selection (Quercus)
  • Aguilar Film Festival
    Aguilar del Campo
    Spain
    December 3, 2019
    Official Selection (Castilla y León competition)
  • Certamen Internacional de Cortos "Ciudad de Soria"
    Soria
    Spain
    November 20, 2019
    Official Selection (Quercus)
  • Bethlehem Student Film Festival
    Bethlehem
    Palestine, State of
    April 1, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Muestra de Cine Internacional de Palencia
    Palencia
    Spain
    March 7, 2020
    Quercus. Castilla y Leon Official Selection
  • Semana del Cine de Medina del Campo
    Medina del Campo
    Spain
    March 11, 2020
    Quercus Selection. Castilla y Leon Catalogue 2020
  • Festival du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand
    Clermont-Ferrand
    France
    February 6, 2020
    New Spanish Shorts (ICAA Catalogue)
  • DocuMed - Festival Cinéma Documentaire Méditerranéen en Tunisie
    Tunisie
    Tunisia
    June 3, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Festival de Cine y Televisión Reino de León
    León
    Spain
    August 28, 2020
    Official Selection (Cine Castilla y Leon)
  • Festival Internacional de Cine de Ponferrada
    Ponferrada
    Spain
    September 25, 2020
    Quercus Selection. Castilla y Leon en Corto. 2019
  • Szczecin Film Festival
    Szczecin
    Poland
    October 23, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Girona Film Festival
    Girona
    Spain
    October 3, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Southeastern International Film Festival
    Nashville, Tennessee
    United States
    October 30, 2020
    North America Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Festival Internacional de Cine Austral
    Cordoba
    Argentina
    December 1, 2020
    Official Selection (Out of Competition)
  • INTERNATIONAL ETHNOVIDEOGRAPHYC Festival
    Zamora
    Spain
    December 8, 2020
    Official Selection
  • PREMIOS ARTEJOVEN CASTILLA Y LEÓN
    Valladolid
    Spain
    November 17, 2020
    Mención Especial (Obras Audiovisuales)
  • International Film Festival ZOOM – ZBLIŻENIA
    Jelenia Góra
    Poland
    January 6, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Programa de Videocreación Azkuna Zentroa 'BideOtik
    Bilbao
    Spain
    February 1, 2021
    Official Selection
  • VISIONE URBANE - BEYOND THE IDEAL CITY
    Bologna
    Italy
    April 17, 2021
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Adrian Diaz Villafuerte, Loreto Garcia Saiz

- Adrian Diaz (Madrid, 1995):- Adrian Diaz Villafuerte (Spain, 1995): Spanish/peruvian documentary filmmaker specialized in socio-political and environmental issues. Director of award winning documentary "I WAIT" (2018), about the Saharawi - Moroccan conflict. Currently working in the post production and creation of content departments at TERRA INCOGNITA DOCS.

Contact: a.diazvillafuerte@gmail.com

- Loreto Saiz (Burgos, 1996): Loreto Garcia, having always being interested in social causes, and being a student in the Baltic Film and Media School, in 2018 travels to the saharaui refugee camps in Tindouf to make an internship and shoot her last project, انتظر (I wait). In the same year she graduates from Media and Film studies with extraordinary acknowledgements in Universidad Carlos III. Ever since, she has worked writing and directing pieces to spread the knowledge of different social causes in Greece, Italy and Spain.

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Director Statement

Sidibrahim and his friends are more or less our age, and we share the same passion for cinema. However, they never met their homeland: they were born displaced, in diaspora, and with the political responsability of solving a conflict that is in a continuous state of stand-by. In this context, saharawi youngsters see in the war the only solution to press the UN. In the meantime, they study cinema so more people can know about the conflict.
We lived with them for several weeks: we shot and watched movies, we talked a lot and we were realizing that time was passing only when it was time for another tea. This short movie is our tiny effort to show how a population that has been historically pacific is losing its patience, and these youngsters have nothing to lose.