Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

  • 2009
    Sahrawis, a glimpse into exile

    Sahrawis, a glimpse into exile

    Sahrawis, a glimpse into exile

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    Filmed in the camps of Sahrawi refugees living in West-Algeria and Tifaritti (the liberated territory). The narrator, in his multiple interviews,...

    Sahrawis, a glimpse into exile
  • 1992
    Goulili, tell me, my sister

    Goulili, tell me, my sister

    Goulili, tell me, my sister

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    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
  • 2006
    Sahara Project: From Sant Coloma to Dajla

    Sahara Project: From Sant Coloma to Dajla

    Sahara Project: From Sant Coloma to Dajla

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    This film presents, through the eyes four students - Gemma, Colo, Cristian and Mireia - their experience of the trip, the feelings that moved them,...

    Sahara Project: From Sant Coloma to Dajla
  • 2023
    The time after the rain

    The time after the rain

    The time after the rain

    22023HD

    Young Mohamed Dih, who in Seville, returns to his birthplace – a refugee camp in Western Sahara. Time flows differently here: the times of the...

    The time after the rain
  • 2012
    Letter to Sasha

    Letter to Sasha

    Letter to Sasha

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    Fatma, who lives in Asuerd’s refugee camp in the Hamada of the Algerian desert, will listen in television to news that will give her a great...

    Letter to Sasha
  • 2006
    The world through their eyes

    The world through their eyes

    The world through their eyes

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    In April of 2006 a total of 150 disposable cameras were distributed in two of the Sahrawi refugee camps with the objective of producing a...

    The world through their eyes
  • 2018
    In the Devil's garden

    In the Devil's garden

    In the Devil's garden

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    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
  • 2010
    The mirror bird

    The mirror bird

    The mirror bird

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    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...

    The mirror bird
  • 2020
    The wall, the Sahrawi wound

    The wall, the Sahrawi wound

    The wall, the Sahrawi wound

    02020HD

    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....

    The wall, the Sahrawi wound
  • 2014
    Musawat, inclusion in the Sahrawi camps

    Musawat, inclusion in the Sahrawi camps

    Musawat, inclusion in the Sahrawi camps

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    Education Center for disabled children located in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria. Despite the precarious conditions in which this population...

    Musawat, inclusion in the Sahrawi camps
  • 2022
    The nomad garden

    The nomad garden

    The nomad garden

    02022HD

    The Nomad Garden is an ode to the impossible. A young Sahrawi refugee shows how he grows organic vegetables and herbs in one of the most inhospitable...

    The nomad garden
  • 2021
    Desert strawberries

    Desert strawberries

    Desert strawberries

    02021HD

    Sahrawi artist and visual poet Mohamed Sleiman Labat follows the story of the emerging phenomenon of small scale family gardens in his local...

    Desert strawberries
  • 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
  • 2018
    The impossible cities

    The impossible cities

    The impossible cities

    02018HD

    Between 1947 and 1949 the photographer based in the Canary Islands Bonifacio Hernández Gil made numerous photographs for the army and the...

    The impossible cities
  • 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
  • 2007
    Sand compass

    Sand compass

    Sand compass

    02007HD

    A Crew of Mexican filmmakers decide to cross the world to go in search of a nomad who would guide them in the sea of sand, to find the cave of the...

    Sand compass
  • 2015
    I'm tiny

    I'm tiny

    I'm tiny

    02015HD

    As I´m tiny, the night seems to dark to me, so I swicht on the light in case the wardrobe monster is scared.

    I'm tiny
  • 2011
    The ladies of the desert

    The ladies of the desert

    The ladies of the desert

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    The film offers an insight into a nearly forgotten world. The times when the Sahrawi war of independence was on the international agenda seem to be...

    The ladies of the desert
  • 2014
    Western: Sahara

    Western: Sahara

    Western: Sahara

    02014HD

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

    Western: Sahara
  • 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