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**Synopsis:
Imider, southeastern Morocco. A rapacious silver mine has syphoned aquifer water for decades, drying out the almond groves belonging to a small Amazigh community. Fearing their fragile oasis might disappear and their livelihoods destroyed, the villagers peacefully rebelled in 2011 and shut down a major water pipeline heading towards the mine. Seven years later, they continue to occupy it, in a protest camp which has now practically turned into a small solar-powered village. However, backed by conniving intelligence services and aggressively protected by the police, Africa’s biggest silver mine is no easy adversary. Dozens have been arrested for taking part in what the villagers have called “Amussu of Ubrid n ’96” (Movement on Road ’96). Nonetheless, the resilient villagers continue to resist with the little means they have—songs, dry bread, weekly protests, a flimsy camera, a film festival and endless ingenuity.
**From our statement about Amussu:
"One of our Amazigh proverbs says, “An event that is not immortalized by poetry is as if it did not happen.” The community of Imider in the southeast of Morocco believes in this saying and represents it in the daily life and struggle. After the mine activity in this area, which is the largest silver mine in Africa, caused a scarcity of groundwater needed to grow almond trees, the Imider movement has been peacefully fighting for eight years to preserve the fragile oasis and their right to land and life. As for their means of struggle, they are: theater, poetry, and singing, and this documentary was directed by Nader Bouhmouch, produced by the Imider protest movement, in cooperation with the inhabitants of Imider. In front of a more powerful opponent, this protest movement clings to its resilience, the capacity for creativity, its yearning for justice and its belief in it, a belief that even the security forces cannot extinguish".