Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies
- 2009

Thaidina, music in the desert
Thaidina, music in the desert02009HD
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,...
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- 2009

Letter
Letter02009HD
A young girl, frustrated with the never-ending peace process, hopes to hand over a letter containing her suffering and dreams of independence to the...
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- 2018

My society
My society02018HD
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,...
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- 2014

Western: Sahara
Western: Sahara02014HD
WESTERN: SAHARA documented the pre-production of an audiovisual participatory project at Saharawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria. From the trailer...
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- 2018

Diaspora in the Sahara
Diaspora in the Sahara02018HD
Testimonies of a people enlisted on the path of independence. Records taken at refugee camps in Tindouf (Sahara Desert in southern Algeria) and Bir...
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- 2019

Atu, the face of a forgotten nation
Atu, the face of a forgotten nation02019HD
Atu is a 12-year-old Saharawi girl who comes to Valencia every summer to escape the suffocating desert summer in exile. Two opposing worlds between a...
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- 2020

Sahrawi, welcome
Sahrawi, welcome02020HD
"We used to travel trough Sahara in quest for clouds. We did not depend on no airplanes, nor cars, just on our camels” Sahrawi grandpas recall...
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- 2020

The wall, the Sahrawi wound
The wall, the Sahrawi wound02020HD
Ahmed lost a leg because of a landmine. Fatimetu works as a deminer. Mohamed tells the story of the wall that divides his country, Western Sahara....
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- 2019

R1514, the waiting
R1514, the waiting02019HD
The documentary show us their hard work in order to live with dignity and the importance of education and the position of woman, both key facts in...
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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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- 2008

Belgha, the alive memory
Belgha, the alive memory02008HD
Selma Mohamed Brahim, known as Belgha, lives in the Dajla Saharaui refugee camp in Southern Algeria. He has dedicated his life to preserving the...
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- 2004

Desert rose
Desert rose02004HD
Through images and testimonies of Sahrawi women, this film introduces us to the situation and the living conditions the Sahrawi people have been...
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- 2011

Daughters of hope
Daughters of hope02011HD
Women are the protagonists of this documentary. Girls and women of varied ages tell us the difficulties of living their whole lives in refuge and...
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- 2010

The mirror bird
The mirror bird02010HD
Bubisher, as well as being 'the bird of luck', is a word loaded with literary meaning in Spanish in the Sahrawi refugee camps of Tindouf. Seeing 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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- 2023

A refuge in the stars
A refuge in the stars02023HD
The Sahara desert occupies a third of the African continent and is one of the most inhospitable regions on the planet. The region is dry enough to...
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- 2009

Magic Sahara
Magic Sahara02009HD
The magic of life in the desert and that which takes place on a stage, the tricks that one has to learn in order to survive and those that bring a...
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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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- 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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- 2009

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