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| Directed by | Denis Delestrac |
| Written by | Denis Delestrac |
| Produced by | Guillaume Rappeneau Laurent Mini Nathalie Barton |
| Narrated by | Trevor Hayes |
| Cinematography | Marc Martinez Alam Raja |
| Edited by | Michelle Hollander Seamus Haley Ibon Olaskoaga |
| Music by | Jean-Sébastien Robitaille |
Production company | ARTE France |
| Distributed by | PBS International Green Planet Films |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
| Countries | France Canada |
| Languages | English French |
Sand Wars is a documentary by director Denis Delestrac and produced by Rappi Productions, La Compagnie des Taxi-Brousse, InfomAction, Arte France, with the support of The Santa Aguila Foundation.
The film premiered at the Cinéma Publicis on the Champs-Elysées in 2013 and was first broadcast in May in France and Germany (Arte), where it became the highest rated documentary for 2013.[1] A Gold Panda Award winner, Sand Wars is distributed worldwide by PBS International.
Among many other outreach victories, the film inspired the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to publish a Global Environmental Alert in March 2014 titled "Sand, rarer than one thinks".[2]