Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

  • 2004
    Aadat

    Aadat

    Aadat

    02004HD

    There are towns that build their lives from the will where the inert reigns, where the landscape is arid and dead and there are only infinite...

    Aadat
  • 2018
    Sadig: my Sahrawi friend

    Sadig: my Sahrawi friend

    Sadig: my Sahrawi friend

    02018HD

    Habub and Marcos establish a relationship through “video letters” during the wintertime. Through these videos, we see what daily life is...

    Sadig: my Sahrawi friend
  • 2020
    LALGAM - portraits of survival

    LALGAM - portraits of survival

    LALGAM - portraits of survival

    02020HD

    Documentary that denounces the damages caused by the use of land mines in Western Sahara and shows the lives of those affected.

    LALGAM - portraits of survival
  • 2023
    Unsubmissive

    Unsubmissive

    Unsubmissive

    02023HD

    Saharawi women have always been at the forefront of the resistance against colonialism and the plunder of their territory by Morocco. In spite of...

    Unsubmissive
  • 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
  • 2016
    Kafana (Enough, already!)

    Kafana (Enough, already!)

    Kafana (Enough, already!)

    02016HD

    A revealing story about Saharawi refugees, their identity, and their exile of more than 40 years in the Algerian desert where they have built up a...

    Kafana (Enough, already!)
  • 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
    Sahrawis, between occupation and exile

    Sahrawis, between occupation and exile

    Sahrawis, between occupation and exile

    02010HD

    From a chronological perspective, “Saharauis, entre la ocupación y el exilio” (2010) explains the origins and key points of the...

    Sahrawis, between occupation and exile
  • 2009
    Thaidina, music in the desert

    Thaidina, music in the desert

    Thaidina, music in the desert

    02009HD

    A documentary that shows the current state of territorial limbo in which the Sahrawi people live through the gaze of those who arrive and leave,...

    Thaidina, music in the desert
  • 2020
    The wall, the Sahrawi wound

    The wall, the Sahrawi wound

    The wall, the Sahrawi wound

    02020HD

    Ahmed lost a leg because of a landmine. Fatimetu works as a deminer. Mohamed tells the story of the wall that divides his country, Western Sahara....

    The wall, the Sahrawi wound
  • 2024
    Sand bellies

    Sand bellies

    Sand bellies

    02024HD

    The Algerian region of Tindouf is home to more than 170,000 Sahrawis, who have been living in refugee camps since 1976, when Morocco occupied the...

    Sand bellies
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2005
    All about my tent

    All about my tent

    All about my tent

    02005HD

    The relevant NGOs and the Spanish film industry have organized the First International Sahara Film Festival, with the official objective of bringing...

    All about my tent
  • 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
  • 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?
  • 2009
    Facing into the wind

    Facing into the wind

    Facing into the wind

    02009HD

    Documentary about Aminatou Haidar and her fight for the Sahrawi rights

    Facing into the wind
  • 2009
    Heiresses

    Heiresses

    Heiresses

    02009HD

    Two planes take off at the same time headed in opposite directions. Fatimetu and Ejehla. Two distinct lives destined to follow similar paths. One...

    Heiresses
  • 2014
    For sleepless nights

    For sleepless nights

    For sleepless nights

    02014HD

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

    For sleepless nights
  • 2020
    Sahrawi, welcome

    Sahrawi, welcome

    Sahrawi, welcome

    02020HD

    "We used to travel trough Sahara in quest for clouds. We did not depend on no airplanes, nor cars, just on our camels” Sahrawi grandpas recall...

    Sahrawi, welcome