---
title: 'Stolen (2009)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Dan Fallshaw'
released: '2009-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 75
genres:
  - 'Documentary'
countries:
  - 'Australia'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/stolen-2009'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446178/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Stolen (2009)

2009 · 75 min · Documentary · Australia


## Synopsis

Stolen is a 2009 Australian documentary film that uncovers slavery in the Sahrawi refugee camps controlled by the Polisario Front located in Algeria and in the disputed territory of Western Sahara controlled by Morocco, written and directed by Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw. It had its world premiere at the 2009 Sydney Film Festival, where a controversy started after one of the participants in the documentary, Fetim, a black Sahrawi, was flown to Australia by the Polisario Liberation Front to say she wasn't a slave. The POLISARIO, avowing that it doesn’t condone slavery and needing to safeguard its image on the world stage to support its independence fight, began an international campaign against the film. It put out its own video denouncing Stolen, in which several people who Ayala and Fallshaw interviewed say they were coerced or paid by the Australian duo. On May the 2nd 2007, while filming in the refugee camps Ayala and Fallshaw were detained by the Polisario Front and Minurso and the Australian ministry of foreign affairs negotiated their release. "The Polisario Front officials criticised the interest the two journalists took in black members of the Sahrawi population, Reporte

## Credits

- **Director:** [Dan Fallshaw](https://cinepixo.com/people/dan-fallshaw), [Violeta Ayala](https://cinepixo.com/people/violeta-ayala)

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Official site: http://www.stolenthedoc.com
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/stolen-2009
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