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Oulaya’s Wedding
Directed by Hisham Mayet, Cyrus Moussavi, and Brittany Nugent
Director Hisham Mayet Present
Wednesday, February 28, 7 pm
$9/$7 Speed members
Oulaya’s Wedding features an impressionistic account of love, family, gender roles, and ecstatic music in the Sahara Desert. Director Hisham Mayet captures an intimate portrait of a family of wedding musicians, and their court of extended friends and peripheral misfits, who are giving away their eldest daughter’s hand in marriage. The emotional and logistical maelstrom of a Sahraoui wedding are presented in candid and sincere accounts by the residents, hosts, guests, and artists who make these weddings a foundation of Saharan culture in the city of Dakhla.
Group Doueh, the most beloved family band in the Western Sahara, is the main subject of this documentary. Sublime Frequencies co-founder Hisham Mayet and his team, Doueh’s personal guests, were given unprecedented access to film and recorded the pageantry and stunning music of his daughter’s traditional Sahraoui wedding. The result displays the warmth, humor, and belonging through music in this remote and overlooked region in the midst of a rapidly changing Sahraoui culture. 2017, U.S./Morocco, video, in Arabic with English subtitles, 58 minutes. A discussion with the director Hisham Mayet follows the screening. Recommended for 12+.