Desert Movies

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

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

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...

Somewhere in the desert, a little boy is plunged by force into an intimidating and completely foreign new world: the world of camel racing. Will the...

A frustrated art student reaches into his dreams for inspiration, only to be taken on a journey by a mysterious doppelganger.

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

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...

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,...

An undercover documentary film produced and directed by British filmmaker Dominic Brown, about the struggle of the indigenous Sahrawi people of...

Marina is a girl who discovers the legends and traditions of her ancestors on a magical journey through the nature that surrounds her and takes her...

A young man haunted by anxiety about time finds himself on a surreal journey through the desert, where his memories, doubts, and fears materialize...

Documentary short about a strange phenomenon where a phone booth that was in the middle of the Mojave Desert began to attract people around the world...

Based on a short story by Ibrahim al-Kawni that deals with the issues of mortality, the film adaptation is used to condemn those who planted...

Over 400 off-road warriors take on the brutal Nevada desert at the annual Mint 400 off-road race! Watch over 60 classes compete on the roughest and...

With neither narration nor people, DESERT DREAMS dispels the notion that deserts are uninspiring and "deserted." This cinematic experience will...

"My Blue Heaven" follows a man living outside of Las Vegas, searching to escape life's monotony. Trapped in a cycle that he struggles to break out...

A short documentary about Heidi Schwegler, a wildly imaginative artist who faced a crisis in her practice, went on a journey, and was then profoundly...

A young couple finds themselves being stalked on their newly bought property in the middle of the desert.

This film is a realistic record of a sixty-year-old couple living in a remote village (Gurenay) in the Badain Jaran Desert of Alashan, Inner Mongolia...

This somewhat ridiculous 1963 US Air Force training film from the series “Mountain and Desert Survival,” outlines principles of desert...