Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies
- 2014

Gurba, the condemned
Gurba, the condemned02014HD
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...
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- 2008

Ali Salem, architect of resistance
Ali Salem, architect of resistance02008HD
Ali Salem Hamudi Mohamed - Yahdih, was born in 1955 in El Aaiún (Western Sahara). He completed his secondary schooling in the "Spanish"...
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- 2008

I am the other
I am the other02008HD
It happens in Ecuador and South Korea, in Italy, in Venezuela and also in Western Sahara. Three men and two women live every day acting against the...
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- 2010

Mektub
Mektub02010HD
Mektub portrays a day in the life in the Sahrawi refugee camps, along with the declarations of some of its protagonists. But behind this seemingly...
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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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- 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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- 2007

Sahrawis, the eyes of the desert
Sahrawis, the eyes of the desert02007HD
An approach to Sahrawi culture, different aspects of daily life, culture and the struggle of the Sahrawi people in the Sahrawi refugee camps in...
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- 2010

Hammada, the desert's pulse
Hammada, the desert's pulse02010HD
Reality documentary that chronicles the Saharawi refugees living in camps in the Tindouf Hammada, Algeria, Sahara desert. Through an informative...
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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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- 2017

Daniela, the value of perseverance
Daniela, the value of perseverance02017HD
The strength and will of a girl with physical difficulties in Sahrawi society.
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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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- 2010

Journey to Saharawi – The Courage to Live for Freedom
Journey to Saharawi – The Courage to Live for Freedom02010HD
In the stunning and starkly beautiful landscape of Western Sahara, Walter Bencini recounts his journey to meet the Saharawi people, uprooted from...
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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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- 2006

Sahara Project: From Sant Coloma to Dajla
Sahara Project: From Sant Coloma to Dajla02006HD
This film presents, through the eyes four students - Gemma, Colo, Cristian and Mireia - their experience of the trip, the feelings that moved them,...
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- 2020

Dajla: cinema and oblivion
Dajla: cinema and oblivion62020HD
The rocky desert in southwestern Algeria is the temporary home of about 150,000 refugees from Western Sahara. Goats grazing or the opening of a...
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- 2024

Sand bellies
Sand bellies02024HD
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...
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- 2014

My Sahrawi family
My Sahrawi family102014HD
My Sahrawi family' is a report - documentary that reflects the bonds of unity between Sahrawi families and Spanish families who every summer welcome...
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- 2013

Cast in sand: Najla and Agaila
Cast in sand: Najla and Agaila02013HD
Two women of different generations struggle for survival, happiness, and freedom in barren desert refugee camps. Here, the displaced people of...
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- 2018

The madman of the desert
The madman of the desert02018HD
This documentary tells the story of Tateh Lehbib, a Saharawi refugee who after studying Renewable Energy at the University of Algiers and then a...
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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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