Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

  • 2018
    Sadig: my Sahrawi friend

    Sadig: my Sahrawi friend

    Sadig: my Sahrawi friend

    02018HD

    Habub and Marcos establish a relationship through “video letters” during the wintertime. Through these videos, we see what daily life is...

    Sadig: my Sahrawi friend
  • 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
  • 2005
    All about my tent

    All about my tent

    All about my tent

    02005HD

    The relevant NGOs and the Spanish film industry have organized the First International Sahara Film Festival, with the official objective of bringing...

    All about my tent
  • 1996
    A Sahrawi story

    A Sahrawi story

    A Sahrawi story

    01996HD

    It describes the way of life of the Sahara people in the Western Sahara Desert, in particular it tells the story of a child bitten by a snake.

    A Sahrawi story
  • 2023
    A garden that means more than a garden

    A garden that means more than a garden

    A garden that means more than a garden

    02023HD

    Taleb, who came to a refugee camp at the age of five in 1975 and returned there after his studies abroad, tells of his life as a displaced person,...

    A garden that means more than a garden
  • 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
  • 2020
    The voice of the martyrs

    The voice of the martyrs

    The voice of the martyrs

    02020HD

    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...

    The voice of the martyrs
  • 1996
    The trunks of return

    The trunks of return

    The trunks of return

    101996HD

    Nayat, a young Sahrawi girl, fantasizes about seeing the waves of a sea she has never known in the desert dunes. She knows that her colonized country...

    The trunks of return
  • 2008
    Western Sahara, a nation that wants to exist

    Western Sahara, a nation that wants to exist

    Western Sahara, a nation that wants to exist

    02008HD

    The documentary gives as overview of the history of the Sahrawi people and their current situation in the refugee camps and in the liberated...

    Western Sahara, a nation that wants to exist
  • 2018
    In the Devil's garden

    In the Devil's garden

    In the Devil's garden

    02018HD

    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...

    In the Devil's garden
  • 2008
    Nearly forgotten

    Nearly forgotten

    Nearly forgotten

    02008HD

    In the most inhospitable terrain of the legendary Saharan desert, lies the refugee camps of the Sahrawi Arab Republic. It is there that 5 young...

    Nearly forgotten
  • 2009
    Heiresses

    Heiresses

    Heiresses

    02009HD

    Two planes take off at the same time headed in opposite directions. Fatimetu and Ejehla. Two distinct lives destined to follow similar paths. One...

    Heiresses
  • 2023
    Jaima

    Jaima

    Jaima

    02023HD

    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,...

    Jaima
  • 2018
    The madman of the desert

    The madman of the desert

    The madman of the desert

    02018HD

    This documentary tells the story of Tateh Lehbib, a Saharawi refugee who after studying Renewable Energy at the University of Algiers and then a...

    The madman of the desert
  • 2023
    Daughters of sand

    Daughters of sand

    Daughters of sand

    02023HD

    Benda, a young Sahrawi woman in the diaspora wonders about the future of her people's children and women. We accompany her on an emotional journey to...

    Daughters of sand
  • 2019
    Waiting for the UN

    Waiting for the UN

    Waiting for the UN

    02019HD

    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...

    Waiting for the UN
  • 2020
    Sahrawi women, pillars of life Hunna Raquizat Alhayat

    Sahrawi women, pillars of life Hunna Raquizat Alhayat

    Sahrawi women, pillars of life Hunna Raquizat Alhayat

    02020HD

    Médicos del Mundo Sahara presents the "Hunna Raquizat Alhayat" campaign that tells the stories of 17 Saharawi refugee women with different...

    Sahrawi women, pillars of life Hunna Raquizat Alhayat
  • 2021
    The people of the waves

    The people of the waves

    The people of the waves

    02021HD

    I am a girl of the waves, from a village of seafarers. Some days, I go out with my boat to the sea. But I don’t go alone. Maoimouna comes with...

    The people of the waves
  • 2019
    Atil

    Atil

    Atil

    02019HD

    Atil, a documentary on the life of the Saharawis in the Tindouf refugee camps in Algeria. In the camps there are no limits, since creativity and...

    Atil
  • 2020
    To See El Aaiún

    To See El Aaiún

    To See El Aaiún

    02020HD

    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...

    To See El Aaiún