Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

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

Reflects the daily life of a child in a Sahrawi school

Looking at the situation of the Sahrawi people in 1999, the documentary examines different aspects of institutions and organisation methods from the...

A nine-year old girl, Naha, who in day-to-day life studies primary education en Wilaya de Smara is the point of departure for this documentary....

When you are born in refugee camps, you grow up dreaming that one day you will live in your homeland, and as time goes on, this never goes beyond...

The magic of life in the desert and that which takes place on a stage, the tricks that one has to learn in order to survive and those that bring a...

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...

Every year, approximately 800 Sahrawi boys and girls leave the refugee camps to study in Cuba, Algeria and Libya… 15 years later, they return...

Toufa recreates the beginnings of the Sahrawi population’s arrival in the Hamada’s arid desert. This short film tells of the suffering of...

The documentary reflects the voices and photographic looks Saharawi women because they are the protagonists of this project allows us to see between...

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...

The documentary show us their hard work in order to live with dignity and the importance of education and the position of woman, both key facts in...

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...

This documentary shows the torments and comrade disappearance ocurrences in the Moroccan Occupied Western Sahara through the eyes of Yahia, a young...

Smara is the city of dust, kingdom of sirocco, a surviving ruin of a suffocating region… Thousands of Sahrawis who fled Western Sahara after...

Budha is one of the many children living in Refugee Camps for Sahrawi. One afternoon, he decides to stop playing football with his friends to play in...

"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...

For more than thirty years, tens of thousands of Saharawi have lived in makeshift camps, refugees in the Algerian desert. Because of this situation,...

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

L'Aarifa is the name given to a post within the political structure of the Polisario. In the Sahrawi refugee camps this post is held by women who, at...