Desert Movies

A short film about the life and death of California's most famous post-apocalyptic hell-hole, the Salton Sea.

A gangster hires a mysterious rent-a-man for a subtle game of cat-and-mouse in the Las Vegas desert until a future-changing twist ending.

As a child in Burkina Faso, Yacouba was sent away from home to study the Qur'an, where he and his classmates were almost starving. The young boys...

Join Blossom the Clown and her many friends as they take you on an indoor adventure of make believe to ride a rainy day; including music, dancing,...

A young man with a backpack walks all on his own into the endless Mexican cactus desert. He takes some peyote. How does he get out again? Pure cinema...

A large commercial mining company has claimed the Patagonia Mountains, and the environmentalist mother wants to enjoy the area before the digging...

Permaculture expert Geoff Lawton describes how he and a team of volunteers grew an oasis in arid, salty lowland, despite extremely high temperatures...

On a cold desert night, a drifter and his dog make camp — but eerie sounds stir the dark, and ancient creatures crawl from the shadows.

In late August 2016, the band of Floating Points travelled to the Mojave desert to rehearse and record before their tour of the Southern states of...

One brave soul per year is sent out on a pilgrimage to save the world, and reset the balance.

A danced story in which individuals linked around a table, on the roof of a derelict building, take us to the edge of forbidden zones and to the...

A genetically-engineered virus, meant for good, but never before tested on humans, has found a host. This is the story of four desperate people who,...

A Mexican boy without young neighbors to play with, befriends a diverse group of desert animals.

Ali Baba steals hidden treasure from some raiders who then seek revenge on his family.

Peru is a country of many contrasts. From the cold waters of the Coast over the 6000 m high Andes to the unique biodiversity of the Amazon Jungle....

A sublime documentary on childhood and bereavement that’s one of several shorts the filmmaker completed while working in Algeria for Georges...

A man wakes up in the middle of a vast wasteland, battered and hurt, with no memory of what had happened or how he got there. Through his journey to...

Beyond the sprawl of the urban jungle, 150 race teams meet to do battle in the heart of the Mojave Desert in southern California. The format is "run...