Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies
- 2005

Drops in the desert
Drops in the desert02005HD
A documentary which explains, through the experience of hosting a Sahrawi child for the summer, visiting the camps and speaking with teachers,...
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- 2017

Barber shop
Barber shop02017HD
In Smara refugee camp, barber Mohammed treats customers of different generations.
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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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- 2013

A divided homeland
A divided homeland02013HD
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...
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- 2021

A plant in the desert
A plant in the desert02021HD
A photography workshop in the Sahrawi refugee camps shows the situation of uprooted people through their own eyes. At the same time, the direc- tor...
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- 2010

Nothing happens
Nothing happens02010HD
In the Sahrahwi refugee camp of Dajla, south of Algeria lives Mohamed Brahim Selma, also known as Belgha; Shepherd and poet of the Tiris region who...
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- 2009

DEHBA
DEHBA02009HD
Reflects the daily life of a child in a Sahrawi school
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- 2017

Oasis
Oasis02017HD
OASIS, a documentary that tells us about water's historical role in Western Sahara via the true stories of people who turned this wild desert into a...
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- 2016

Embarka's world
Embarka's world02016HD
Embarka, Sahrawi girl, born in a world that wasn't her world.
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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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- 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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- 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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- 2014

L'Aarifa
L'Aarifa02014HD
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...
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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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- 2019

Bubisher: art and fight
Bubisher: art and fight02019HD
Art and culture as a fight against injustice and oblivion. The Saharawi people, with creative processes, claim their right to the land from which...
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- 1999

Sahara, the cherished referendum
Sahara, the cherished referendum01999HD
Looking at the situation of the Sahrawi people in 1999, the documentary examines different aspects of institutions and organisation methods from the...
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- 2023

Al Nujum - The stars
Al Nujum - The stars52023HD
For over 40 years, the Sahrawi population, as refugees, has been waiting peacefully to return to their homeland after Morocco's illegal invasion of...
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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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- 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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- 2018

In the Devil's garden
In the Devil's garden02018HD
The film situates the viewer within a makeshift space of an animal market in Algeria. Drifting between feeding and waiting, one attunes to the bodies...
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