Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies
- 2009

Sahrawis, a glimpse into exile
Sahrawis, a glimpse into exile02009HD
Filmed in the camps of Sahrawi refugees living in West-Algeria and Tifaritti (the liberated territory). The narrator, in his multiple interviews,...
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- 1992

Goulili, tell me, my sister
Goulili, tell me, my sister01992HD
The Sahrawi women relate their exil, the tortures, their memories and the difficulties of life as refugees. They are beautiful, touching... Educated...
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- 2006

Sahara Project: From Sant Coloma to Dajla
Sahara Project: From Sant Coloma to Dajla02006HD
This film presents, through the eyes four students - Gemma, Colo, Cristian and Mireia - their experience of the trip, the feelings that moved them,...
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- 2023

The time after the rain
The time after the rain22023HD
Young Mohamed Dih, who in Seville, returns to his birthplace – a refugee camp in Western Sahara. Time flows differently here: the times of the...
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- 2012

Letter to Sasha
Letter to Sasha02012HD
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...
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- 2006

The world through their eyes
The world through their eyes02006HD
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...
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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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- 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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- 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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- 2014

Musawat, inclusion in the Sahrawi camps
Musawat, inclusion in the Sahrawi camps02014HD
Education Center for disabled children located in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria. Despite the precarious conditions in which this population...
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- 2022

The nomad garden
The nomad garden02022HD
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...
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- 2021

Desert strawberries
Desert strawberries02021HD
Sahrawi artist and visual poet Mohamed Sleiman Labat follows the story of the emerging phenomenon of small scale family gardens in his local...
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- 2018

The madman of the desert
The madman of the desert02018HD
This documentary tells the story of Tateh Lehbib, a Saharawi refugee who after studying Renewable Energy at the University of Algiers and then a...
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- 2018

The impossible cities
The impossible cities02018HD
Between 1947 and 1949 the photographer based in the Canary Islands Bonifacio Hernández Gil made numerous photographs for the army and the...
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- 2005

All about my tent
All about my tent02005HD
The relevant NGOs and the Spanish film industry have organized the First International Sahara Film Festival, with the official objective of bringing...
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- 2007

Sand compass
Sand compass02007HD
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...
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- 2015

I'm tiny
I'm tiny02015HD
As I´m tiny, the night seems to dark to me, so I swicht on the light in case the wardrobe monster is scared.
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- 2011

The ladies of the desert
The ladies of the desert02011HD
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...
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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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- 2023

Jaima
Jaima02023HD
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,...
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