Desert Movies

A Mexican boy without young neighbors to play with, befriends a diverse group of desert animals.

An experimental thriller film by Ted McKean Newsom.

This somewhat ridiculous 1963 US Air Force training film from the series “Mountain and Desert Survival,” outlines principles of desert...

One brave soul per year is sent out on a pilgrimage to save the world, and reset the balance.

"My Blue Heaven" follows a man living outside of Las Vegas, searching to escape life's monotony. Trapped in a cycle that he struggles to break out...

For the Serrano and Cahuilla peoples, the desert was home. For hardy prospectors and ranchers, for William Keyes and his family, the desert offered...

After surviving a terror attack that took her siblings and left her disabled, a young girl is trapped in an endless cycle of traumatic dreams. In...

A young man haunted by anxiety about time finds himself on a surreal journey through the desert, where his memories, doubts, and fears materialize...

A young couple finds themselves being stalked on their newly bought property in the middle of the desert.

A short documentary about Heidi Schwegler, a wildly imaginative artist who faced a crisis in her practice, went on a journey, and was then profoundly...

This film is a realistic record of a sixty-year-old couple living in a remote village (Gurenay) in the Badain Jaran Desert of Alashan, Inner Mongolia...

A man wakes up in the middle of a vast wasteland, battered and hurt, with no memory of what had happened or how he got there. Through his journey to...

Beyond the sprawl of the urban jungle, 150 race teams meet to do battle in the heart of the Mojave Desert in southern California. The format is "run...

Over 400 off-road warriors take on the brutal Nevada desert at the annual Mint 400 off-road race! Watch over 60 classes compete on the roughest and...

A danced story in which individuals linked around a table, on the roof of a derelict building, take us to the edge of forbidden zones and to the...

They say that a certain wind from California makes people irritable. Halfway between documentary and experimental film, Santa Ana explores the...

An original documentary filmed over the course of seven years through the Northern Territory, Western Queensland, and South Australia. Australia is...

In a dry world, water is key for survival. The water source is guarded so dearly by one species of desert-dwellers, who prevents others to benefit...

With neither narration nor people, DESERT DREAMS dispels the notion that deserts are uninspiring and "deserted." This cinematic experience will...