Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

  • 2020
    Three territories: a landscape, a nation, a right

    Three territories: a landscape, a nation, a right

    Three territories: a landscape, a nation, a right

    02020HD

    Documentary that explains the current climate of political turmoil in the north of Africa caused by the embedded problem of the decolonization of...

    Three territories: a landscape, a nation, a right
  • 2013
    A divided homeland

    A divided homeland

    A divided homeland

    02013HD

    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
  • 2009
    Stones (in the desert)

    Stones (in the desert)

    Stones (in the desert)

    02009HD

    About the life and thoughts of Sahrawi refugees.

    Stones (in the desert)
  • 2014
    L'Aarifa

    L'Aarifa

    L'Aarifa

    02014HD

    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...

    L'Aarifa
  • 2012
    Smara's smile

    Smara's smile

    Smara's smile

    02012HD

    This is the story of Buyema Abdelfatan, also known as Castro, an ex Saharan soldier that now a days runs a centre for disabled children in the...

    Smara's smile
  • 2010
    School desks in the desert

    School desks in the desert

    School desks in the desert

    02010HD

    A nine-year old girl, Naha, who in day-to-day life studies primary education en Wilaya de Smara is the point of departure for this documentary....

    School desks in the desert
  • 2013
    Sea of sand

    Sea of sand

    Sea of sand

    02013HD

    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
  • 2011
    The Sahrawi teacher

    The Sahrawi teacher

    The Sahrawi teacher

    02011HD

    For more than thirty years, tens of thousands of Saharawi have lived in makeshift camps, refugees in the Algerian desert. Because of this situation,...

    The Sahrawi teacher
  • 2011
    Nollywood, Smara

    Nollywood, Smara

    Nollywood, Smara

    102011HD

    Smara is the city of dust, kingdom of sirocco, a surviving ruin of a suffocating region… Thousands of Sahrawis who fled Western Sahara after...

    Nollywood, Smara
  • 2015
    Humaná, feeding wilayas

    Humaná, feeding wilayas

    Humaná, feeding wilayas

    02015HD

    Humaná tells two stories, the daily life of a Sahrawi refugee and food they receive to live and hard process of distributing hundreds of tons...

    Humaná, feeding wilayas
  • 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
  • 1999
    Sahara, the cherished referendum

    Sahara, the cherished referendum

    Sahara, the cherished referendum

    01999HD

    Looking at the situation of the Sahrawi people in 1999, the documentary examines different aspects of institutions and organisation methods from the...

    Sahara, the cherished referendum
  • 2016
    Embarka's world

    Embarka's world

    Embarka's world

    02016HD

    Embarka, Sahrawi girl, born in a world that wasn't her world.

    Embarka's world
  • 2016
    Time zero. What to expect when waiting in the Sahara?

    Time zero. What to expect when waiting in the Sahara?

    Time zero. What to expect when waiting in the Sahara?

    02016HD

    The documentary reflects the voices and photographic looks Saharawi women because they are the protagonists of this project allows us to see between...

    Time zero. What to expect when waiting in the Sahara?
  • 2020
    Toufa

    Toufa

    Toufa

    02020HD

    Toufa recreates the beginnings of the Sahrawi population’s arrival in the Hamada’s arid desert. This short film tells of the suffering of...

    Toufa
  • 2006
    Lives on pause

    Lives on pause

    Lives on pause

    02006HD

    Every year, approximately 800 Sahrawi boys and girls leave the refugee camps to study in Cuba, Algeria and Libya… 15 years later, they return...

    Lives on pause
  • 2012
    Saharauiya

    Saharauiya

    Saharauiya

    02012HD

    The documentary is about the sahrawi women’s role carries out from all areas in her society and developes within the framework of the refugee...

    Saharauiya
  • 2009
    Facing into the wind

    Facing into the wind

    Facing into the wind

    02009HD

    Documentary about Aminatou Haidar and her fight for the Sahrawi rights

    Facing into the wind
  • 2022
    State of rest

    State of rest

    State of rest

    02022HD

    Salka was born as a refugee in the Sahara desert, and grew up in Italy by chance: she was one of the so-called "Little Peace Ambassadors". Sahrawis...

    State of rest
  • 1992
    Goulili, tell me, my sister

    Goulili, tell me, my sister

    Goulili, tell me, my sister

    01992HD

    The Sahrawi women relate their exil, the tortures, their memories and the difficulties of life as refugees. They are beautiful, touching... Educated...

    Goulili, tell me, my sister