Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

  • 2011
    The ladies of the desert

    The ladies of the desert

    The ladies of the desert

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    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
    Nollywood, Smara

    Nollywood, Smara

    Nollywood, Smara

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

    Nollywood, Smara
  • 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
  • 2012
    Smara's smile

    Smara's smile

    Smara's smile

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    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
  • 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
  • 2013
    Chabiba

    Chabiba

    Chabiba

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

    Chabiba
  • 2013
    Cast in sand: Najla and Agaila

    Cast in sand: Najla and Agaila

    Cast in sand: Najla and Agaila

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    Two women of different generations struggle for survival, happiness, and freedom in barren desert refugee camps. Here, the displaced people of...

    Cast in sand: Najla and Agaila
  • 2014
    Gurba, the condemned

    Gurba, the condemned

    Gurba, the condemned

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    Siya, Dumaha, Mata and Aziz are Saharawi refugees that live in camps in Tindouf (Algeria). They show us the daily extreme harshness of an exile that...

    Gurba, the condemned
  • 2020
    Jadijetu's journey

    Jadijetu's journey

    Jadijetu's journey

    02020HD

    The narrative of resistance of Sahrawi poet Jadijetu Alaÿat flows against the background of raveling images from an unknown land.

    Jadijetu's journey
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2023
    The hidden fire

    The hidden fire

    The hidden fire

    02023HD

    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...

    The hidden fire
  • 2018
    Tito

    Tito

    Tito

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    Tito
  • 2018
    My society

    My society

    My society

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    A local film whose message is not political, but social. It's about sexual violence and society's vision of rape victims, who are scarred for life,...

    My society
  • 2018
    انتظر

    انتظر

    انتظر

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    انتظر
  • 2010
    The mirror bird

    The mirror bird

    The mirror bird

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    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...

    The mirror bird
  • 2010
    School desks in the desert

    School desks in the desert

    School desks in the desert

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    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....

    School desks in the desert
  • 2010
    25 minutes of Sahara

    25 minutes of Sahara

    25 minutes of Sahara

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    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
  • 2010
    Little grains of sand

    Little grains of sand

    Little grains of sand

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    A documentary about the lives of Sahrawi refugees in the Tindouf camps (Algeria). A didactic video for families hosting Sahrawi minors in the...

    Little grains of sand
  • 2009
    Thaidina, music in the desert

    Thaidina, music in the desert

    Thaidina, music in the desert

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    A documentary that shows the current state of territorial limbo in which the Sahrawi people live through the gaze of those who arrive and leave,...

    Thaidina, music in the desert