Occupied Territories Movies

  • 2007
    Tebraa, portraits of Sahrawi women

    Tebraa, portraits of Sahrawi women

    Tebraa, portraits of Sahrawi women

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    Tebraa is the song of the women of the Sahara desert. Songs of love or lamentation that they sing when they are alone. This collective documentary...

    Tebraa, portraits of Sahrawi women
  • 2008
    The whisper of the sand

    The whisper of the sand

    The whisper of the sand

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    Awserd refugee camp, Tindouf. Fatma has not seen her brother for 30 years, since they parted after the Moroccan invasion of Western Sahara. Now he is...

    The whisper of the sand
  • 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
  • 2011
    The other side of the wall

    The other side of the wall

    The other side of the wall

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    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
  • 2010
    Sahrawis, between occupation and exile

    Sahrawis, between occupation and exile

    Sahrawis, between occupation and exile

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    From a chronological perspective, “Saharauis, entre la ocupación y el exilio” (2010) explains the origins and key points of the...

    Sahrawis, between occupation and exile
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2016
    News from Laayoune

    News from Laayoune

    News from Laayoune

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    The film follows a couple of young boys in the Saharian refugee camp „February 27“ located in the bleak desert area of southwestern...

    News from Laayoune
  • 2013
    A divided homeland

    A divided homeland

    A divided homeland

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    The story of young Ahmed Tarfi might as well be the story of the Sahrawi people’s difficulties, and particularly those of the youth. The...

    A divided homeland
  • 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

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    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
  • 2021
    Free Sultana

    Free Sultana

    Free Sultana

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    The documentary #FreeSultana, tells the story of a Sahrawi activist who has been under house arrest for a year with her entire family, without a...

    Free Sultana
  • 2015
    Messages from Western Sahara

    Messages from Western Sahara

    Messages from Western Sahara

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    Stories of resistance, words of pain and suffering, tales of life and death, and in particular of dignity, that show the reality that the Sahrawi...

    Messages from Western Sahara
  • 2016
    War of peace

    War of peace

    War of peace

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    This film is about the suffering of Sahrawi youth in the occupied Western Sahara. It tells the tragic story of their lives under occupation, and how...

    War of peace
  • 2013
    Just to let you know that I'm alive

    Just to let you know that I'm alive

    Just to let you know that I'm alive

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    Enforced disappearances, torture, secret prisons, mass graves, no trial and no justice. The history of Western Sahara, the area south of Morocco with...

    Just to let you know that I'm alive
  • 2020
    Jadijetu's journey

    Jadijetu's journey

    Jadijetu's journey

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

    Jadijetu's journey
  • 2021
    You can't get there from here

    You can't get there from here

    You can't get there from here

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    An international team of 4 friends undertake the Plymouth to Dakar Challenge a ‘banger rally’ which annually shadows the route of the...

    You can't get there from here
  • 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
  • 2018
    A gap in the wall

    A gap in the wall

    A gap in the wall

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    "A woman about to give birth. A nurse who skips an unfair order. A worker who claims his rights. A child who begins to discover the society in which...

    A gap in the wall
  • 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
  • 2017
    Skeikima

    Skeikima

    Skeikima

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    How would you claim your identity in a hostile land? How could you live under harassment and repression? How would you make your voice break through...

    Skeikima