This is the true story of Fetim Salam, a Saharawi refugee falsely portrayed as a slave in the Australian documentary 'Stolen'. Australian filmmakers, Violeta Ayala and Daniel Fallshaw, travel to the Saharawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria in 2007 and claim to discover 20,000 slaves in the camps run by the independence movement Polisario Front. Refugees are outraged for being portrayed as slaves, and humanitarian aid workers are incredulous about these allegations as they know the camps intimately. Filmmaker Carlos Gonzalez retraces their steps in search of the truth and finds a web of lies, misinformation and Moroccan operatives reshaping the truth.
Carlos González
Director
The Salt of the Earth
2014
Imaging sleeping at home
2012
Our Faces Have Been Taken Away
2021
Ships of Slaves: The Middle Passage
1997
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
2007
Money as Debt
2006
Lalia
1999
A Son of Africa: The Autobiography of a Slave
1996
Meeting David Wilson
2008
Olympe de Gouges : Liberté, égalité, féminité
2025
Lapo Chapé
2025
My Sahrawi family
2014