Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

  • 2015
    Life is waiting: referendum and resistance in Western Sahara

    Life is waiting: referendum and resistance in Western Sahara

    Life is waiting: referendum and resistance in Western Sahara

    72015HD

    Forty years after its people were promised freedom by departing Spanish rulers, Western Sahara remains Africa's last colony. This film chronicles the...

    Life is waiting: referendum and resistance in Western Sahara
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2013
    The runner

    The runner

    The runner

    02013HD

    The Runner is a film about endurance. It is the story of a champion long-distance runner whose journey transformed him from an athlete into the...

    The runner
  • 2018
    The impossible cities

    The impossible cities

    The impossible cities

    02018HD

    Between 1947 and 1949 the photographer based in the Canary Islands Bonifacio Hernández Gil made numerous photographs for the army and the...

    The impossible cities
  • 2011
    The other side of the wall

    The other side of the wall

    The other side of the wall

    02011HD

    The documentary tells how 35 years of struggle of Sahrawi people became the starting of the Arab spring. From both side of the wall, Sahrawi tell us...

    The other side of the wall
  • 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
  • 2010
    Children in exile: Sahrawi, refugees children of refugees

    Children in exile: Sahrawi, refugees children of refugees

    Children in exile: Sahrawi, refugees children of refugees

    02010HD

    Refugees in Algeria since 1975, the Saharawi have had to forge another life path, fighting to return home. Their children, a generation born in exile...

    Children in exile: Sahrawi, refugees children of refugees
  • 2022
    The nomad garden

    The nomad garden

    The nomad garden

    02022HD

    The Nomad Garden is an ode to the impossible. A young Sahrawi refugee shows how he grows organic vegetables and herbs in one of the most inhospitable...

    The nomad garden
  • 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
  • 2008
    Belgha, the alive memory

    Belgha, the alive memory

    Belgha, the alive memory

    02008HD

    Selma Mohamed Brahim, known as Belgha, lives in the Dajla Saharaui refugee camp in Southern Algeria. He has dedicated his life to preserving the...

    Belgha, the alive memory
  • 2011
    The ladies of the desert

    The ladies of the desert

    The ladies of the desert

    02011HD

    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
  • 2011
    Robbed of Truth

    Robbed of Truth

    Robbed of Truth

    02011HD

    This is the true story of Fetim Salam, a Saharawi refugee falsely portrayed as a slave in the Australian documentary 'Stolen'. Australian filmmakers,...

    Robbed of Truth
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2012
    Letter to Sasha

    Letter to Sasha

    Letter to Sasha

    02012HD

    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
  • 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
    Diaspora in the Sahara

    Diaspora in the Sahara

    Diaspora in the Sahara

    02018HD

    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
  • 2017
    Soukeina, 4400 days of night

    Soukeina, 4400 days of night

    Soukeina, 4400 days of night

    02017HD

    After the military occupation of Western Sahara in 1976, Moroccan government attacked the civil population with hard repression, forcing hundreds of...

    Soukeina, 4400 days of night
  • 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