Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

  • 2007
    Sand compass

    Sand compass

    Sand compass

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    A Crew of Mexican filmmakers decide to cross the world to go in search of a nomad who would guide them in the sea of sand, to find the cave of the...

    Sand compass
  • 1992
    Goulili, tell me, my sister

    Goulili, tell me, my sister

    Goulili, tell me, my sister

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    The Sahrawi women relate their exil, the tortures, their memories and the difficulties of life as refugees. They are beautiful, touching... Educated...

    Goulili, tell me, my sister
  • 2015
    I'm tiny

    I'm tiny

    I'm tiny

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    As I´m tiny, the night seems to dark to me, so I swicht on the light in case the wardrobe monster is scared.

    I'm tiny
  • 2021
    A plant in the desert

    A plant in the desert

    A plant in the desert

    02021HD

    A photography workshop in the Sahrawi refugee camps shows the situation of uprooted people through their own eyes. At the same time, the direc- tor...

    A plant in the desert
  • 2006
    The world through their eyes

    The world through their eyes

    The world through their eyes

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    In April of 2006 a total of 150 disposable cameras were distributed in two of the Sahrawi refugee camps with the objective of producing a...

    The world through their eyes
  • 2012
    Letter to Sasha

    Letter to Sasha

    Letter to Sasha

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    Fatma, who lives in Asuerd’s refugee camp in the Hamada of the Algerian desert, will listen in television to news that will give her a great...

    Letter to Sasha
  • 1996
    The trunks of return

    The trunks of return

    The trunks of return

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    Nayat, a young Sahrawi girl, fantasizes about seeing the waves of a sea she has never known in the desert dunes. She knows that her colonized country...

    The trunks of return
  • 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
  • 2023
    Jaima

    Jaima

    Jaima

    02023HD

    In the dunes of the Sahara, a Jaima, the traditional Saharawi tent. Through the tea ritual, a woman takes us into the past and present of her people,...

    Jaima
  • 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
  • 2009
    Hammada

    Hammada

    Hammada

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    Dadah, a Sahrawi boy living in the Dakhla refugee camp, knows nothing beyond life in the desert, the sand-filled air, the ever-present dunes on the...

    Hammada
  • 2016
    Words of caramel

    Words of caramel

    Words of caramel

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    In a refugee camp in the Sahara desert lives a deaf boy who wants to learn to write. Welcome to the silent world of Kori and his best friend the...

    Words of caramel
  • 2019
    Crisis

    Crisis

    Crisis

    02019HD

    In the middle of Western Sahara desert, where no water, no trees, no animals live but a bunch of refugees, struggling in poverty to survive the harsh...

    Crisis
  • 2023
    Champs-Elysées

    Champs-Elysées

    Champs-Elysées

    02023HD

    A boy has a dream of traveling to the world, especially to Paris where his uncle lives, but a wall built on his land divides his country and does not...

    Champs-Elysées
  • 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
  • 2024
    Salam

    Salam

    Salam

    02024HD

    The Sahrawi people have lived in exile for almost half a century in the driest desert of the African continent. There, where basic resources such as...

    Salam
  • 2019
    Atu, the face of a forgotten nation

    Atu, the face of a forgotten nation

    Atu, the face of a forgotten nation

    02019HD

    Atu is a 12-year-old Saharawi girl who comes to Valencia every summer to escape the suffocating desert summer in exile. Two opposing worlds between a...

    Atu, the face of a forgotten nation
  • 2018
    Diaspora in the Sahara

    Diaspora in the Sahara

    Diaspora in the Sahara

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    Testimonies of a people enlisted on the path of independence. Records taken at refugee camps in Tindouf (Sahara Desert in southern Algeria) and Bir...

    Diaspora in the Sahara
  • 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
  • 2014
    Coría and the sea

    Coría and the sea

    Coría and the sea

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    This is a story about women who are fighters, tenacious, hopeful, active women…who were capable of lifting, from nothingness, in the harshest...

    Coría and the sea