HAIYU: Rebel Singer Mariem Hassan and the Struggle for a Free Western Sahara
HAIYU interweaves Mariem Hassan’s music and her personal quest for her country’s independence with larger historical events dating back to the region’s Spanish colonisation, and subsequent occupation by Morocco.
- Year: 2024
- Country: Sweden, Western Sahara
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: RåFILM, Saharawi Voice
- Keyword: musician, folk music, songwriter, blues music, percussion, sahrawi singer, mariem hassan, may 1958 – 22 august 2015
- Director: Alex Veitch, Brahim B. Ali, Mohamedsalem Uered, Anna Klara Åhrén
- Cast: Mariem Hassan