Directed by Hassan El Bouharrouti, this 90-minute documentary sheds light on the geopolitical and geostrategic context of the genesis of the Polisario Front to better understand the ideology, support and actions of the separatist movement. The film vives abundant testimonies of former founders and former members of the front and archival images of the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA).
According to the director, "the identity of a front" aims to inform international public opinion about the reality of artificial conflict over the Moroccan Sahara and inform generations of roots and the adequacy of the national cause.
"Throughout my career in Europe, I found that many people are in favor of the Polisario separatist thesis, without any knowledge of the issues of the conflict, historical considerations that surround it," he told MAP shortly before the screening of the documentary.
Mr El Bouharrouti made a chronological analysis work on the historical conditions which led to the creation of the Polisario Front in the overall context of decolonization of the Sahara including the Green March.
This ignorance of the reality of the Sahara issue is precisely one of the main motivations for the production of this film, he said.
The film discusses the interference of foreign parties to destabilize Morocco and perpetuate the conflict making people and families in the area suffer, forced to undergo dispersion and confinement in camps in Tindouf, Algeria.
The evidence presented clearly shows that the Polisario, created by Sahrawi students in the fight against the Spanish occupation, was recovered by the Algerian regime in an attempt to weaken Morocco and serve its hegemonic ambitions in the region.
During a discussion at the end of the screening, the focus was put on the quality and objectivity of the documentary work which has already been proposed in Morocco and in several European cities, including Brussels.
This screening was attended by several representatives of Moroccan and foreign civil society, parliamentarians, diplomats, including Ambassador Permanent Representative of Morocco in Geneva, Omar Hilale, as well as media representatives.
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