Battalion To My Beat
Director: Eimi Imanishi
Country: USA, Algeria, Western Sahara
Year: 2016
Length: 14'
Genre: fiction, documentary
Screenplay: Eimi Imanishi
Cinematography: Christian Cruz
Editing: Kim Spurlock
Music: Raul Francisco Garcia
Production company: Intagliofilms, LLC
Appearing: Mariam Omar Ahmed
Dreaming of a life beyond the confines of the Western Saharan refugee camps in Algeria, Mariam runs away to join the military in the middle of the desert, naively envisioning herself as a Joan of Arc who will liberate her country from occupation.