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Following the shootings in the area last week, the Salawi government expressed “deep attention and intense indignation”. The follow-up project of the director of “Oppenheimer” is being filmed in the city of Dakra, where the location is currently under “illegal military occupation of the Kingdom of Morocco.”
“The Ministry firmly expressed its strong condemnation of its decision to choose the occupied territory as the location for the main international film production and explicitly rejected the legal representation of the people of Saharavi, internationally recognized as the legal representative of Polisario Front, without any kind of consultation or coordination.” Its statement reading.
The statement continued: “The bill constitutes a dangerous form of cultural normalization of occupation, immoral exploitation of art and film, to paint the image of the colonial situation that remains imposed by force, and every day it is firmly resisted by a man struggling for freedom and dignity.”
Director Christopher Nolan was called for filming his latest film The Odyssey in a controversial part of the Sahara. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
Western Sahara International Film Festival (Fisahara) Similar Make a statement Nolan and Universal Pictures are urged to “stop shooting in Dakhla and unite with the Salawes team, who have been in military occupation for 50 years and are often imprisoned and tortured for their peaceful self-determination struggle.”
“By shooting part of the Odyssey in the occupied area where journalists without borders classified as “News Desert”, Nolan and his team, perhaps unconsciously and unintentionally, contributed to the Moroccan crackdown on the Saharans and the Moroccan repression and the efforts of the Moroccan regime, to make Moroccan efforts to bring its united post in the western Sahara, “MARíA”, “Maríaun,” Carrian, “Carrin carrim”Carrin, “carri”, “carri”, it was the service of “Carri”.
Actor Javier Bardem previously appeared in Fisahara to share the festival statement On his Instagram account last week.
The Western Sahara are disputed territory. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP via Getty Images)
“For 50 years, Morocco has occupied the Western Sahara Desert, expelling the Sahara cities. Dahra is one of them, transformed from a Moroccan occupier to a tourist destination, now a movie, always a movie with the aim of erasing the identity of the Sahara in the city, and approving an illegal occupation of the Spaniards.
Meanwhile, Reda Benjelloun of the Moroccan Photography Center is a public administrative film institution in Morocco, known as “Extremely Important” in films, and is the first major Hollywood project to be filmed in the region.
“Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan
“Dakra will indeed provide extraordinary opportunities for foreign production in the future, where they will find human resources and a geography that is very different from the rest of Morocco,” Bengellon said. During the interview. “Today, Morocco’s strength lies in its very sensitive response to demand and having a very effective local executive production company that they do well.”
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Nolan’s The Odyssey was filmed in several countries including Morocco, Italy and Greece. (Michael Tran/AFP via Getty Images)
“Odyssey” spent at least four days shooting in the area and was classified asNon-autonomous field“United Nations. Morocco currently controls 70% of the land, although Morocco has proposed a plan to grant the country autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty.
President Donald Trump acknowledges Morocco’s claims on land and endorses his plan In the statement In the first semester of 2020.
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“Odyssey” is scheduled to be released on July 17, 2026 and adapt to Homer’s ancient Greek epic poem The same name. It is also filmed in Morocco, Greece, Italy, Scotland and Iceland, and is expected to continue shooting in Ireland and the UK.
