Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

  • 2011
    Robbed of Truth

    Robbed of Truth

    Robbed of Truth

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    This is the true story of Fetim Salam, a Saharawi refugee falsely portrayed as a slave in the Australian documentary 'Stolen'. Australian filmmakers,...

    Robbed of Truth
  • 2018
    The impossible cities

    The impossible cities

    The impossible cities

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    Between 1947 and 1949 the photographer based in the Canary Islands Bonifacio Hernández Gil made numerous photographs for the army and the...

    The impossible cities
  • 2010
    Children in exile: Sahrawi, refugees children of refugees

    Children in exile: Sahrawi, refugees children of refugees

    Children in exile: Sahrawi, refugees children of refugees

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    Refugees in Algeria since 1975, the Saharawi have had to forge another life path, fighting to return home. Their children, a generation born in exile...

    Children in exile: Sahrawi, refugees children of refugees
  • 2016
    Battalion to My Beat

    Battalion to My Beat

    Battalion to My Beat

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    Eager to escape a life of confinement in the refugee camps of Western Sahara in Algeria, Mariam flees into the desert to join the army, naively...

    Battalion to My Beat
  • 2014
    For sleepless nights

    For sleepless nights

    For sleepless nights

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    "… Choose a starless night in the part you line the Best in the city".

    For sleepless nights
  • 2014
    Gurba, the condemned

    Gurba, the condemned

    Gurba, the condemned

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    Siya, Dumaha, Mata and Aziz are Saharawi refugees that live in camps in Tindouf (Algeria). They show us the daily extreme harshness of an exile that...

    Gurba, the condemned
  • 2011
    The ladies of the desert

    The ladies of the desert

    The ladies of the desert

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    The film offers an insight into a nearly forgotten world. The times when the Sahrawi war of independence was on the international agenda seem to be...

    The ladies of the desert
  • 2006
    Sahara Project: From Sant Coloma to Dajla

    Sahara Project: From Sant Coloma to Dajla

    Sahara Project: From Sant Coloma to Dajla

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    This film presents, through the eyes four students - Gemma, Colo, Cristian and Mireia - their experience of the trip, the feelings that moved them,...

    Sahara Project: From Sant Coloma to Dajla
  • 2020
    To See El Aaiún

    To See El Aaiún

    To See El Aaiún

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    In the depths of the Algerian desert the Sahrawi people have been dwelling in the refugee camps for over 40 years. Camps gradually turned into...

    To See El Aaiún
  • 2023
    The time after the rain

    The time after the rain

    The time after the rain

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    Young Mohamed Dih, who in Seville, returns to his birthplace – a refugee camp in Western Sahara. Time flows differently here: the times of the...

    The time after the rain
  • 2020
    Jadijetu's journey

    Jadijetu's journey

    Jadijetu's journey

    02020HD

    The narrative of resistance of Sahrawi poet Jadijetu Alaÿat flows against the background of raveling images from an unknown land.

    Jadijetu's journey
  • 2007
    Sahara is not for sale

    Sahara is not for sale

    Sahara is not for sale

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    In April 2007, during the celebration of FiSahara, three friends embarked on the adventure of teaching a photography course in the Dajla refugee camp...

    Sahara is not for sale
  • 2013
    Cast in sand: Najla and Agaila

    Cast in sand: Najla and Agaila

    Cast in sand: Najla and Agaila

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    Two women of different generations struggle for survival, happiness, and freedom in barren desert refugee camps. Here, the displaced people of...

    Cast in sand: Najla and Agaila
  • 2009
    Sahrawis, a glimpse into exile

    Sahrawis, a glimpse into exile

    Sahrawis, a glimpse into exile

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    Filmed in the camps of Sahrawi refugees living in West-Algeria and Tifaritti (the liberated territory). The narrator, in his multiple interviews,...

    Sahrawis, a glimpse into exile
  • 2017
    Daniela, the value of perseverance

    Daniela, the value of perseverance

    Daniela, the value of perseverance

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    The strength and will of a girl with physical difficulties in Sahrawi society.

    Daniela, the value of perseverance
  • 1996
    A Sahrawi story

    A Sahrawi story

    A Sahrawi story

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    It describes the way of life of the Sahara people in the Western Sahara Desert, in particular it tells the story of a child bitten by a snake.

    A Sahrawi story
  • 2020
    The voice of the martyrs

    The voice of the martyrs

    The voice of the martyrs

    02020HD

    The film takes place in the Sahrawi refugee camps installed since 1975 near Tindouf, southwest Algeria. It takes us on a filmed investigation led by...

    The voice of the martyrs
  • 2015
    Life is waiting: referendum and resistance in Western Sahara

    Life is waiting: referendum and resistance in Western Sahara

    Life is waiting: referendum and resistance in Western Sahara

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    Forty years after its people were promised freedom by departing Spanish rulers, Western Sahara remains Africa's last colony. This film chronicles the...

    Life is waiting: referendum and resistance in Western Sahara
  • 2021
    Desert strawberries

    Desert strawberries

    Desert strawberries

    02021HD

    Sahrawi artist and visual poet Mohamed Sleiman Labat follows the story of the emerging phenomenon of small scale family gardens in his local...

    Desert strawberries
  • 2010
    Journey to Saharawi – The Courage to Live for Freedom

    Journey to Saharawi – The Courage to Live for Freedom

    Journey to Saharawi – The Courage to Live for Freedom

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    In the stunning and starkly beautiful landscape of Western Sahara, Walter Bencini recounts his journey to meet the Saharawi people, uprooted from...

    Journey to Saharawi – The Courage to Live for Freedom