Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

  • 2019
    Bubisher: art and fight

    Bubisher: art and fight

    Bubisher: art and fight

    02019HD

    Art and culture as a fight against injustice and oblivion. The Saharawi people, with creative processes, claim their right to the land from which...

    Bubisher: art and fight
  • 2019
    Atu, the face of a forgotten nation

    Atu, the face of a forgotten nation

    Atu, the face of a forgotten nation

    02019HD

    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...

    Atu, the face of a forgotten nation
  • 2018
    February 27th

    February 27th

    February 27th

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    Documentary about refugees from Western Sahara living in Algeria.

    February 27th
  • 2010
    25 minutes of Sahara

    25 minutes of Sahara

    25 minutes of Sahara

    02010HD

    25 minutes in the Sahara, is a snapshot of the 34 years of division in which resistance and justice for the Sahrawi community has played out. 1500...

    25 minutes of Sahara
  • 2012
    Saharauiya

    Saharauiya

    Saharauiya

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    The documentary is about the sahrawi women’s role carries out from all areas in her society and developes within the framework of the refugee...

    Saharauiya
  • 2016
    Embarka's world

    Embarka's world

    Embarka's world

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    Embarka, Sahrawi girl, born in a world that wasn't her world.

    Embarka's world
  • 2008
    The whisper of the sand

    The whisper of the sand

    The whisper of the sand

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    Awserd refugee camp, Tindouf. Fatma has not seen her brother for 30 years, since they parted after the Moroccan invasion of Western Sahara. Now he is...

    The whisper of the sand
  • 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
  • 2012
    Imaging sleeping at home

    Imaging sleeping at home

    Imaging sleeping at home

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    "Imagine sleeping at home" follows the story of several children who guide us to understand the conflict and the problems that they face, but also...

    Imaging sleeping at home
  • 2022
    Imminent danger

    Imminent danger

    Imminent danger

    02022HD

    This short film addresses the problems surrounding the appearance of narcotics in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf. These drugs are beginning to...

    Imminent danger
  • 2012
    Sweep the desert

    Sweep the desert

    Sweep the desert

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    A documentary about the daily lives, hopes, aspirations and demands of though living in the Sahrawi refugee camps of Dajla.

    Sweep the desert
  • 2021
    The people of the waves

    The people of the waves

    The people of the waves

    02021HD

    I am a girl of the waves, from a village of seafarers. Some days, I go out with my boat to the sea. But I don’t go alone. Maoimouna comes with...

    The people of the waves
  • 2010
    Nothing happens

    Nothing happens

    Nothing happens

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    In the Sahrahwi refugee camp of Dajla, south of Algeria lives Mohamed Brahim Selma, also known as Belgha; Shepherd and poet of the Tiris region who...

    Nothing happens
  • 2008
    The women of the tents

    The women of the tents

    The women of the tents

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    A group of Sahrawi women come together and explain how traditional "jaimas" (tents) are set up.

    The women of the tents
  • 2016
    Portrait

    Portrait

    Portrait

    02016HD

    28-year-old Azman, a student in the film school Abidin Kaid Saleh, explains how he discovered film in the Sahrawi refugee camps, the difficulties he...

    Portrait
  • 2016
    On leased land

    On leased land

    On leased land

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    The testimony of several generations of Saharawi refugees, shows us the harshness of life in the inhospitable Algerian desert, after more than 40...

    On leased land
  • 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
  • 2008
    A scream from Sahara

    A scream from Sahara

    A scream from Sahara

    02008HD

    Trapped between the violence of the Moroccan regime and the indifference of the international community, the Saharaui People fight peacefully in...

    A scream from Sahara
  • 2025
    The reflection on the sand

    The reflection on the sand

    The reflection on the sand

    02025HD

    The rocks, sculpted by sea and wind, stand resilient, displaying the scars of the fragments torn away. From that beach, a young Sahrawi embarks on a...

    The reflection on the sand
  • 2016
    When the sun came for them

    When the sun came for them

    When the sun came for them

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    When the Sun Came for Them is a series of interviews with the nomadic Saharawi people in the Western Sahara. They discuss their remarkable history,...

    When the sun came for them