Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies
- 2007

Sand compass
Sand compass02007HD
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...
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- 1992

Goulili, tell me, my sister
Goulili, tell me, my sister01992HD
The Sahrawi women relate their exil, the tortures, their memories and the difficulties of life as refugees. They are beautiful, touching... Educated...
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- 2015

I'm tiny
I'm tiny02015HD
As I´m tiny, the night seems to dark to me, so I swicht on the light in case the wardrobe monster is scared.
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- 2021

A plant in the desert
A plant in the desert02021HD
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...
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- 2006

The world through their eyes
The world through their eyes02006HD
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...
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- 2012

Letter to Sasha
Letter to Sasha02012HD
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...
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- 1996

The trunks of return
The trunks of return101996HD
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...
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- 2023

Daughters of sand
Daughters of sand02023HD
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...
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- 2023

Jaima
Jaima02023HD
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,...
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- 2011

The ladies of the desert
The ladies of the desert02011HD
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...
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- 2009

Hammada
Hammada02009HD
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...
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- 2016

Words of caramel
Words of caramel02016HD
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...
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- 2019

Crisis
Crisis02019HD
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...
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- 2023

Champs-Elysées
Champs-Elysées02023HD
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...
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- 2019

Waiting for the UN
Waiting for the UN02019HD
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...
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- 2024

Salam
Salam02024HD
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...
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- 2019

Atu, the face of a forgotten nation
Atu, the face of a forgotten nation02019HD
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...
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- 2018

Diaspora in the Sahara
Diaspora in the Sahara02018HD
Testimonies of a people enlisted on the path of independence. Records taken at refugee camps in Tindouf (Sahara Desert in southern Algeria) and Bir...
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- 2010

The mirror bird
The mirror bird02010HD
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...
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- 2014

Coría and the sea
Coría and the sea02014HD
This is a story about women who are fighters, tenacious, hopeful, active women…who were capable of lifting, from nothingness, in the harshest...
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