Activists for the indigenous people of Western Sahara are calling for a boycott of Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster The Odyssey over the director’s decision to film some scenes of the movie in Saharan territory now occupied by Morocco.
Nolan filmed a portion of his epic film in Dakhla, a city situated on a narrow peninsula of the Atlantic Coast, and sitting about 340 miles south of the area’s biggest city, Laayoune. The region has been militarily occupied by Morocco since the 1970s, but is also territory claimed by the indigenous Saharawi people. The two political rivals have been in a simmering dispute over the area for decades.
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