Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

  • 2021
    A plant in the desert

    A plant in the desert

    A plant in the desert

    02021HD

    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...

    A plant in the desert
  • 2023
    A garden that means more than a garden

    A garden that means more than a garden

    A garden that means more than a garden

    02023HD

    Taleb, who came to a refugee camp at the age of five in 1975 and returned there after his studies abroad, tells of his life as a displaced person,...

    A garden that means more than a garden
  • 2020
    Searching for Tirfas

    Searching for Tirfas

    Searching for Tirfas

    02020HD

    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...

    Searching for Tirfas
  • 2023
    A refuge in the stars

    A refuge in the stars

    A refuge in the stars

    02023HD

    The Sahara desert occupies a third of the African continent and is one of the most inhospitable regions on the planet. The region is dry enough to...

    A refuge in the stars
  • 2020
    Toufa

    Toufa

    Toufa

    02020HD

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

    Toufa
  • 2023
    The time after the rain

    The time after the rain

    The time after the rain

    22023HD

    Young Mohamed Dih, who in Seville, returns to his birthplace – a refugee camp in Western Sahara. Time flows differently here: the times of the...

    The time after the rain
  • 2005
    All about my tent

    All about my tent

    All about my tent

    02005HD

    The relevant NGOs and the Spanish film industry have organized the First International Sahara Film Festival, with the official objective of bringing...

    All about my tent
  • 2018
    In the Devil's garden

    In the Devil's garden

    In the Devil's garden

    02018HD

    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...

    In the Devil's garden
  • 2012
    Smara's smile

    Smara's smile

    Smara's smile

    02012HD

    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...

    Smara's smile
  • 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
  • 1999
    Lalia

    Lalia

    Lalia

    01999HD

    Lalia is a Saharaui girl who lives in a refugee camp in Algiers. She has only heard her grandmother and grandfather talk about her country, about the...

    Lalia
  • 2010
    I am a Sahrawi woman

    I am a Sahrawi woman

    I am a Sahrawi woman

    02010HD

    This is the reality of women of the same nation who live divided by the wall that has separated them for 35 years now. Exiled Sahrawi women who live...

    I am a Sahrawi woman
  • 2008
    Ali Salem, architect of resistance

    Ali Salem, architect of resistance

    Ali Salem, architect of resistance

    02008HD

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

    Ali Salem, architect of resistance
  • 2021
    Un viaje hacia nosotros

    Un viaje hacia nosotros

    Un viaje hacia nosotros

    02021HD

    Spanish actor Pepe Viyuela embarks on a personal journey on the trail of his grandfather Gervasio, a soldier in the Republican Army during the...

    Un viaje hacia nosotros
  • 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
  • 2015
    Humaná, feeding wilayas

    Humaná, feeding wilayas

    Humaná, feeding wilayas

    02015HD

    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...

    Humaná, feeding wilayas
  • 2009
    Magic Sahara

    Magic Sahara

    Magic Sahara

    02009HD

    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...

    Magic Sahara
  • 2023
    Daughters of sand

    Daughters of sand

    Daughters of sand

    02023HD

    Benda, a young Sahrawi woman in the diaspora wonders about the future of her people's children and women. We accompany her on an emotional journey to...

    Daughters of sand
  • 2008
    Western Sahara, a nation that wants to exist

    Western Sahara, a nation that wants to exist

    Western Sahara, a nation that wants to exist

    02008HD

    The documentary gives as overview of the history of the Sahrawi people and their current situation in the refugee camps and in the liberated...

    Western Sahara, a nation that wants to exist
  • 2004
    Sahara Marathon

    Sahara Marathon

    Sahara Marathon

    02004HD

    This film offers a picture of the tense situation in which the Sahrawi people have lived for more than 30 years. The yearly celebration of a marathon...

    Sahara Marathon