Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies
- 2023

Al Nujum - The stars
Al Nujum - The stars52023HD
For over 40 years, the Sahrawi population, as refugees, has been waiting peacefully to return to their homeland after Morocco's illegal invasion of...
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- 2010

Kites in Sahara
Kites in Sahara02010HD
Short film filmed in February 2010 at the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria). A poetic look into the situation that refugees go through and...
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- 2006

Lives on pause
Lives on pause02006HD
Every year, approximately 800 Sahrawi boys and girls leave the refugee camps to study in Cuba, Algeria and Libya… 15 years later, they return...
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- 2021

A plant in the desert
A plant in the desert02021HD
A photography workshop in the Sahrawi refugee camps shows the situation of uprooted people through their own eyes. At the same time, the direc- tor...
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- 2013

Chabiba
Chabiba02013HD
In Hassaniya, the mother tongue of the Sahrawi people "Chabiba" means youth. In the Sahrawi tradition conversations, revolves around a good tea....
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- 2004

Desert rose
Desert rose02004HD
Through images and testimonies of Sahrawi women, this film introduces us to the situation and the living conditions the Sahrawi people have been...
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- 2016

Embarka's world
Embarka's world02016HD
Embarka, Sahrawi girl, born in a world that wasn't her world.
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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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- 2023

The hidden fire
The hidden fire02023HD
Silence always surrounds the mine, first when it explodes and then when it eternally haunts its victims. The history of the silence of this fire...
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- 2017

Oasis
Oasis02017HD
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...
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- 2008

The women of the tents
The women of the tents02008HD
A group of Sahrawi women come together and explain how traditional "jaimas" (tents) are set up.
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- 2009

Heiresses
Heiresses02009HD
Two planes take off at the same time headed in opposite directions. Fatimetu and Ejehla. Two distinct lives destined to follow similar paths. One...
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- 2011

The other side of the wall
The other side of the wall02011HD
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...
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- 2010

School desks in the desert
School desks in the desert02010HD
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....
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- 2012

Imaging sleeping at home
Imaging sleeping at home02012HD
"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...
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- 2015

Humaná, feeding wilayas
Humaná, feeding wilayas02015HD
Humaná tells two stories, the daily life of a Sahrawi refugee and food they receive to live and hard process of distributing hundreds of tons...
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- 1999

Sahara, the cherished referendum
Sahara, the cherished referendum01999HD
Looking at the situation of the Sahrawi people in 1999, the documentary examines different aspects of institutions and organisation methods from the...
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- 2010

Nothing happens
Nothing happens02010HD
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...
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- 2020

LALGAM - portraits of survival
LALGAM - portraits of survival02020HD
Documentary that denounces the damages caused by the use of land mines in Western Sahara and shows the lives of those affected.
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- 1992

Goulili, tell me, my sister
Goulili, tell me, my sister01992HD
The Sahrawi women relate their exil, the tortures, their memories and the difficulties of life as refugees. They are beautiful, touching... Educated...
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