Sahrawi campaigners and filmmakers are calling for a boycott of The Odyssey by Christopher Nolan over his decision to shoot the film in Morocco-occupied Western Sahara.
The British filmmaker's choice of the city of Dakhla as a location for the film, which goes on general release on Friday, has been accused of normalising the north African kingdom's 50-year occupation of the territory.
Sahrawi journalist and filmmaker Mamine Hachimi is among those calling for the film to be boycotted.
"This is not a campaign against cinema or artistic freedom - it is a call for ethical responsibility," he told Middle East Eye.
Hachimi co-directed Three Stolen Cameras, a short documentary that detailed the difficulties facing the Sahrawi media organisation Equipe Media as it attempted to document the abuses perpetrated against the Sahrawis in Western Sahara.
