The Algerian region of Tindouf is home to more than 170,000 Sahrawis, who have been living in refugee camps since 1976, when Morocco occupied the Western Sahara region. In a place of inhospitable conditions and scarcity, the Sahrawi population lives on dwindling humanitarian aid. Six percent of them face the added difficulty of coeliac disease.
"Sobre vivir" is a documentary about suicide. It aims to make visible the problem and what it represents for a society like ours; it also aims to help break the taboo and stigma surrounding mental health and suicide. As it is a multifactorial issue, we wanted to make a photograph as complete as possible and we have testimonies from up to 60 people, including survivors, family members, psychologists, psychiatrists, associations, politicians and journalists. Some faces are familiar, but most of them are people who have told their story for the first time in this documentary. Suicide is a reflection of the society in which we live and its multiple problems: loneliness, precariousness, stress...
