Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies
- 2020

The voice of the martyrs
The voice of the martyrs02020HD
The film takes place in the Sahrawi refugee camps installed since 1975 near Tindouf, southwest Algeria. It takes us on a filmed investigation led by...
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- 2014

Coría and the sea
Coría and the sea02014HD
This is a story about women who are fighters, tenacious, hopeful, active women…who were capable of lifting, from nothingness, in the harshest...
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- 2014

Musawat, inclusion in the Sahrawi camps
Musawat, inclusion in the Sahrawi camps02014HD
Education Center for disabled children located in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria. Despite the precarious conditions in which this population...
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- 2018

Diaspora in the Sahara
Diaspora in the Sahara02018HD
Testimonies of a people enlisted on the path of independence. Records taken at refugee camps in Tindouf (Sahara Desert in southern Algeria) and Bir...
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- 2011

Nollywood, Smara
Nollywood, Smara02011HD
Smara is the city of dust, kingdom of sirocco, a surviving ruin of a suffocating region… Thousands of Sahrawis who fled Western Sahara after...
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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

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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- 2014

Western: Sahara
Western: Sahara02014HD
WESTERN: SAHARA documented the pre-production of an audiovisual participatory project at Saharawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria. From the trailer...
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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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- 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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- 2019

Waiting for the UN
Waiting for the UN02019HD
Waiting for the UN is a poetic documentary about life in the desert, literally and figuratively. We follow the everyday life of a Saharawi family...
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- 2009

SADR, justice without war?
SADR, justice without war?02009HD
This documentary shows the torments and comrade disappearance ocurrences in the Moroccan Occupied Western Sahara through the eyes of Yahia, a young...
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- 2008

Belgha, the alive memory
Belgha, the alive memory02008HD
Selma Mohamed Brahim, known as Belgha, lives in the Dajla Saharaui refugee camp in Southern Algeria. He has dedicated his life to preserving the...
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- 2008

Western Sahara, a nation that wants to exist
Western Sahara, a nation that wants to exist02008HD
The documentary gives as overview of the history of the Sahrawi people and their current situation in the refugee camps and in the liberated...
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 2010

Mektub
Mektub02010HD
Mektub portrays a day in the life in the Sahrawi refugee camps, along with the declarations of some of its protagonists. But behind this seemingly...
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- 2011

Daughters of hope
Daughters of hope02011HD
Women are the protagonists of this documentary. Girls and women of varied ages tell us the difficulties of living their whole lives in refuge and...
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