Desert Movies

A rancher, thrown from his horse, must cross an inhospitable desert and avoid those who live there.

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...

After his wife and eight year old son disappear on a beach and the police find no clues, Antoine starts investigating their disappearance himself....

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

During a warm summer day in the middle of the desert, a young man enters an ice cream parlour to order some ice cream. But his ambition to cool...

Esmael Barari's second short film whch has won The Golden Butterfly from 1990 Isfahan International Festival of Films for Children & Young Adults

Stranded in a vast arid desert, two resentful lovers are forced to endure one another as they await their rescue.

A desert endurance event turns ominous for two women and their fellow participants. As they trek through the harsh, barren terrain, what began as a...

Two hopeful migrants must make the long, arduous journey across a desolate landscape toward the promise of a better life only to discover their...

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

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...

This short travelogue, touring Arizona's deserts, was shot in VistaVision.

In the vastness of the Iranian desert, young artists strive for freedom, community, and the preservation of their cultural heritage in the ancient...

Survival! is a 22-minute, Alan Madison-directed instructional wilderness survival film focusing on safety techniques. It is often described as a...

Three people looking for a better life become stranded in the desert with little hope of survival.

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

In this visually arresting drama, a musician recalls his life and the painful choice his mother made when she could feed only one of her twin sons.

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,...

Ambivalent about her pregnancy, Connie attempts to withstand the desert, her husband and herself.

Zibeon Fielding, Aboriginal TSI man and long distance runner is preparing to run a crazy 62 kilometres. Driven by passion to help those he loves,...