Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies
- 2019

Crisis
Crisis02019HD
In the middle of Western Sahara desert, where no water, no trees, no animals live but a bunch of refugees, struggling in poverty to survive the harsh...
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- 2012

Sweep the desert
Sweep the desert02012HD
A documentary about the daily lives, hopes, aspirations and demands of though living in the Sahrawi refugee camps of Dajla.
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- 2011

Lost land
Lost land5.72011HD
Straddling a 2,400-kilometer-long wall constructed by the Moroccan army, the Western Sahara is today divided into two sections — one occupied...
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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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- 2020

Four Days in Occupied Western Sahara—A Rare Look Inside Africa's Last Colony
Four Days in Occupied Western Sahara—A Rare Look Inside Africa's Last Colony02020HD
In this exclusive broadcast, Democracy Now! breaks the media blockade and goes to occupied Western Sahara in the northwest of Africa to document the...
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- 2022

WANIBIK: The people who live in front of their land
WANIBIK: The people who live in front of their land02022HD
The film, shot in the Saharawi refugee population camps, tells the story of a group of students from a film school who, for their final year project,...
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- 2010

The mirror bird
The mirror bird02010HD
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...
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- 2016

On leased land
On leased land02016HD
The testimony of several generations of Saharawi refugees, shows us the harshness of life in the inhospitable Algerian desert, after more than 40...
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- 2009

Facing into the wind
Facing into the wind02009HD
Documentary about Aminatou Haidar and her fight for the Sahrawi rights
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- 2020

Three territories: a landscape, a nation, a right
Three territories: a landscape, a nation, a right02020HD
Documentary that explains the current climate of political turmoil in the north of Africa caused by the embedded problem of the decolonization of...
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- 2014

Gurba, the condemned
Gurba, the condemned02014HD
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...
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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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- 2016

Portrait
Portrait02016HD
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...
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- 2022

Imminent danger
Imminent danger02022HD
This short film addresses the problems surrounding the appearance of narcotics in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf. These drugs are beginning to...
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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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- 2007

Sand compass
Sand compass02007HD
A Crew of Mexican filmmakers decide to cross the world to go in search of a nomad who would guide them in the sea of sand, to find the cave of the...
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- 2007

Sahara is not for sale
Sahara is not for sale02007HD
In April 2007, during the celebration of FiSahara, three friends embarked on the adventure of teaching a photography course in the Dajla refugee camp...
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- 2015

Sumud
Sumud02015HD
In 1976 Spain abandoned its last colony, the Western Sahara, in the hands of Morocco. Since then, the Saharawi people have been divided between those...
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- 2013

Sea of sand
Sea of sand02013HD
This documentary explains the problems of Western Sahara while occupied by Morocco, the territories liberated by the Polisario Front, and the refugee...
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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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