Occupied Territories Movies

  • 2011
    Lost land

    Lost land

    Lost land

    5.72011HD

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

    Lost land
  • 2007
    Children of the clouds

    Children of the clouds

    Children of the clouds

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    In May 2005, after 30 years of Moroccan occupation, Saharawi students initiated a series of peaceful demonstrations demanding their right to the...

    Children of the clouds
  • 2024
    Desert PHOSfate

    Desert PHOSfate

    Desert PHOSfate

    02024HD

    DESERT PHOSfate is an artist film that tells about the impact of phosphate on the Sahrawi community and its fate, including the surprising emergence...

    Desert PHOSfate
  • 2016
    Tell them I exist

    Tell them I exist

    Tell them I exist

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    Tell them I exist paints the portraits of Naâma Asfari, a Sahrawi jurist and pro-independence activist sentenced to 30 years detention in...

    Tell them I exist
  • 2017
    Soukeina, 4400 days of night

    Soukeina, 4400 days of night

    Soukeina, 4400 days of night

    02017HD

    After the military occupation of Western Sahara in 1976, Moroccan government attacked the civil population with hard repression, forcing hundreds of...

    Soukeina, 4400 days of night
  • 2015
    Mission: Sahara

    Mission: Sahara

    Mission: Sahara

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    On 1976 twenty thousand Spaniards left the last European colony in Africa, and thousands of Saharawi’s are abandoned to their fate. Forty years...

    Mission: Sahara
  • 2022
    Money, Freedom, a Story of CFA Franc

    Money, Freedom, a Story of CFA Franc

    Money, Freedom, a Story of CFA Franc

    6.72022HD

    The former French colonies in Central and West Africa have been independent since 1960, but most of these countries still use the currency of the...

    Money, Freedom, a Story of CFA Franc
  • 2016
    Sirocco: Winds of resistance

    Sirocco: Winds of resistance

    Sirocco: Winds of resistance

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    Drawing from the inspiration of their grandmothers, singer Aziza Brahim and activist Senia Abderhaman wrestle for the independence of their people...

    Sirocco: Winds of resistance
  • 2009
    The Problem: Testimony of the Sahrawi people

    The Problem: Testimony of the Sahrawi people

    The Problem: Testimony of the Sahrawi people

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    Morocco doesn’t want you to know what’s happening in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara. The Saharawi people live under...

    The Problem: Testimony of the Sahrawi people
  • 2013
    Sea of sand

    Sea of sand

    Sea of sand

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

    Sea of sand
  • 2022
    WANIBIK: The people who live in front of their land

    WANIBIK: The people who live in front of their land

    WANIBIK: The people who live in front of their land

    02022HD

    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,...

    WANIBIK: The people who live in front of their land
  • 2009
    Thaidina, music in the desert

    Thaidina, music in the desert

    Thaidina, music in the desert

    02009HD

    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
  • 2011
    Gdeim Izik: catalyst of the Arab Spring

    Gdeim Izik: catalyst of the Arab Spring

    Gdeim Izik: catalyst of the Arab Spring

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    This documentary illustrates the story of Gdeim Izik through the voices of the Sahrawis themselves, giving personal accounts of how the camp was...

    Gdeim Izik: catalyst of the Arab Spring
  • 2012
    Testimony of a martir

    Testimony of a martir

    Testimony of a martir

    02012HD

    The story of the film is inspired by the reality of the suffering of the Sahrawi people under Moroccan occupation.

    Testimony of a martir
  • 2010
    25 minutes of Sahara

    25 minutes of Sahara

    25 minutes of Sahara

    02010HD

    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
  • 2011
    ASWAD: in the Sahara, we break the silence

    ASWAD: in the Sahara, we break the silence

    ASWAD: in the Sahara, we break the silence

    02011HD

    This report was carried out clandestinely in the occupied territories of Western Sahara. In it testimonies are heard concerning the plunder of...

    ASWAD: in the Sahara, we break the silence
  • 2011
    The other side of the wall

    The other side of the wall

    The other side of the wall

    02011HD

    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...

    The other side of the wall
  • 2011
    Gdeim Izik, the Sahrawi's resistance camp

    Gdeim Izik, the Sahrawi's resistance camp

    Gdeim Izik, the Sahrawi's resistance camp

    02011HD

    abel and Antonio are human rights activists. They were awoke by the loud noise of sirens and the roar of thousands of screamings. They picked what...

    Gdeim Izik, the Sahrawi's resistance camp
  • 2014
    Gurba, the condemned

    Gurba, the condemned

    Gurba, the condemned

    02014HD

    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