Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

  • 2018
    I wait

    I wait

    I wait

    02018HD

    Is already 40 years since the saharawi population became refugee in Algeria because of the Moroccan occupation. While the POLISARIO government tries...

    I wait
  • 2012
    Saharauiya

    Saharauiya

    Saharauiya

    02012HD

    The documentary is about the sahrawi women’s role carries out from all areas in her society and developes within the framework of the refugee...

    Saharauiya
  • 2010
    School desks in the desert

    School desks in the desert

    School desks in the desert

    02010HD

    A nine-year old girl, Naha, who in day-to-day life studies primary education en Wilaya de Smara is the point of departure for this documentary....

    School desks in the desert
  • 2023
    The hidden fire

    The hidden fire

    The hidden fire

    02023HD

    Silence always surrounds the mine, first when it explodes and then when it eternally haunts its victims. The history of the silence of this fire...

    The hidden fire
  • 2012
    Smara's smile

    Smara's smile

    Smara's smile

    02012HD

    This is the story of Buyema Abdelfatan, also known as Castro, an ex Saharan soldier that now a days runs a centre for disabled children in the...

    Smara's smile
  • 2016
    Portrait

    Portrait

    Portrait

    02016HD

    28-year-old Azman, a student in the film school Abidin Kaid Saleh, explains how he discovered film in the Sahrawi refugee camps, the difficulties he...

    Portrait
  • 2010
    Sukut, the memory of silence

    Sukut, the memory of silence

    Sukut, the memory of silence

    02010HD

    In the refugee camps of Tindouf, for more than 30 years the Sahrawi people is waiting to get the goal that forced them to exile: to return to their...

    Sukut, the memory of silence
  • 2009
    SADR, justice without war?

    SADR, justice without war?

    SADR, justice without war?

    02009HD

    This documentary shows the torments and comrade disappearance ocurrences in the Moroccan Occupied Western Sahara through the eyes of Yahia, a young...

    SADR, justice without war?
  • 2014
    Legna

    Legna

    Legna

    82014HD

    "Legna: speak the Saharawi verse" is an audiovisual poetry story that traces the essential elements of the Saharawi culture, chaining the verses...

    Legna
  • 2009
    Magic Sahara

    Magic Sahara

    Magic Sahara

    02009HD

    The magic of life in the desert and that which takes place on a stage, the tricks that one has to learn in order to survive and those that bring a...

    Magic Sahara
  • 2023
    Daughters of sand

    Daughters of sand

    Daughters of sand

    02023HD

    Benda, a young Sahrawi woman in the diaspora wonders about the future of her people's children and women. We accompany her on an emotional journey to...

    Daughters of sand
  • 2012
    Sweep the desert

    Sweep the desert

    Sweep the desert

    02012HD

    A documentary about the daily lives, hopes, aspirations and demands of though living in the Sahrawi refugee camps of Dajla.

    Sweep the desert
  • 2018
    My friend Nayem

    My friend Nayem

    My friend Nayem

    02018HD

    Tomás, lives in Potosí, a popular neighborhood of Bogotá in Colombia and Nayem, a Saharaui kid from the refugee camps of...

    My friend Nayem
  • 2011
    Nollywood, Smara

    Nollywood, Smara

    Nollywood, Smara

    102011HD

    Smara is the city of dust, kingdom of sirocco, a surviving ruin of a suffocating region… Thousands of Sahrawis who fled Western Sahara after...

    Nollywood, Smara
  • 2010
    Nothing happens

    Nothing happens

    Nothing happens

    02010HD

    In the Sahrahwi refugee camp of Dajla, south of Algeria lives Mohamed Brahim Selma, also known as Belgha; Shepherd and poet of the Tiris region who...

    Nothing happens
  • 2019
    Waiting for the UN

    Waiting for the UN

    Waiting for the UN

    02019HD

    Waiting for the UN is a poetic documentary about life in the desert, literally and figuratively. We follow the everyday life of a Saharawi family...

    Waiting for the UN
  • 2018
    In the Devil's garden

    In the Devil's garden

    In the Devil's garden

    02018HD

    The film situates the viewer within a makeshift space of an animal market in Algeria. Drifting between feeding and waiting, one attunes to the bodies...

    In the Devil's garden
  • 2017
    Oasis

    Oasis

    Oasis

    02017HD

    OASIS, a documentary that tells us about water's historical role in Western Sahara via the true stories of people who turned this wild desert into a...

    Oasis
  • 2010
    The mirror bird

    The mirror bird

    The mirror bird

    02010HD

    Bubisher, as well as being 'the bird of luck', is a word loaded with literary meaning in Spanish in the Sahrawi refugee camps of Tindouf. Seeing the...

    The mirror bird
  • 2013
    Chabiba

    Chabiba

    Chabiba

    02013HD

    In Hassaniya, the mother tongue of the Sahrawi people "Chabiba" means youth. In the Sahrawi tradition conversations, revolves around a good tea....

    Chabiba