Marwan and Khalil weaves together oral storytelling and VHS footage shot by my family to tell the story of an apple orchard in the Sahara desert. The desert has always held a mythical place in our family’s consciousness - despite owning land there, there have been many periods in our lives when it’s been inaccessible to us due to colonial occupation and war. It became something we could dream about as a means of transcending our circumstances. Inspired by facts, fictions, myths, mysticism, and the elusiveness of memory, I used the power of dreams to conjure this film in the same way that my family did to manifest apples in the desert.

Year: 2022

Length: 10 minutes 21 seconds

Languages: English and Darija

Darija translation: Yassamine Ghazzali