143 Sahara Street (original title: 143 rue du désert) is a 2019 Algerian-French documentary film directed by Hassen Ferhani.
It tells the story of a woman named Malika, who runs a small roadside restaurant in the Algerian Sahara Desert.
[3] The Hollywood Reporter's Boyd Van Hoeij gave a positive review of the documentary, noting that the slow-paced film gradually gets under the viewer's skin.
However, he also notes that Ferhani's presence occasionally becomes jarringly noticeable, citing "annoyingly wobbly" camerawork which breaks the "illusion of life just quietly continuing in static fixed tableaux".
[4] Kiva Reardon stated that the documentary provides a nuanced narrative that is entirely driven by the character of the female proprietor and that it gives rise to “questions of modernization and the far reaches of capitalism”.