Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

Documentary about the arduous early years of the Sahrawi cause (1977)

L'Aarifa is the name given to a post within the political structure of the Polisario. In the Sahrawi refugee camps this post is held by women who, at...

Dadah, a Sahrawi boy living in the Dakhla refugee camp, knows nothing beyond life in the desert, the sand-filled air, the ever-present dunes on the...

For over 40 years, the Sahrawi population, as refugees, has been waiting peacefully to return to their homeland after Morocco's illegal invasion of...

The Sahara has been and is populated by peoples who have passed through and occupied it since time immemorial. The Sahrawis are one of these peoples....

'The Desert of the Desert' is a feature documentary about one of the longest-running and least- known colonial conflicts and the plight of the...

For more than thirty years, tens of thousands of Saharawi have lived in makeshift camps, refugees in the Algerian desert. Because of this situation,...

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

The Sahrawi people have lived in exile for almost half a century in the driest desert of the African continent. There, where basic resources such as...

In the dunes of the Sahara, a Jaima, the traditional Saharawi tent. Through the tea ritual, a woman takes us into the past and present of her people,...

Fatma, who lives in Asuerd’s refugee camp in the Hamada of the Algerian desert, will listen in television to news that will give her a great...

Tomás, lives in Potosí, a popular neighborhood of Bogotá in Colombia and Nayem, a Saharaui kid from the refugee camps of...

Eager to escape a life of confinement in the refugee camps of Western Sahara in Algeria, Mariam flees into the desert to join the army, naively...

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,...

Is already 40 years since the saharawi population became refugee in Algeria because of the Moroccan occupation. While the POLISARIO government tries...

In the depths of the Algerian desert the Sahrawi people have been dwelling in the refugee camps for over 40 years. Camps gradually turned into...

Saharawi women have always been at the forefront of the resistance against colonialism and the plunder of their territory by Morocco. In spite of...

The Runner is a film about endurance. It is the story of a champion long-distance runner whose journey transformed him from an athlete into the...

In the stunning and starkly beautiful landscape of Western Sahara, Walter Bencini recounts his journey to meet the Saharawi people, uprooted from...

A revealing story about Saharawi refugees, their identity, and their exile of more than 40 years in the Algerian desert where they have built up a...