Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies
- 2023

Unsubmissive
Unsubmissive02023HD
Saharawi women have always been at the forefront of the resistance against colonialism and the plunder of their territory by Morocco. In spite of...
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- 1996

A Sahrawi story
A Sahrawi story01996HD
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.
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- 2020

Jadijetu's journey
Jadijetu's journey02020HD
The narrative of resistance of Sahrawi poet Jadijetu Alaÿat flows against the background of raveling images from an unknown land.
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- 2019

Crisis
Crisis02019HD
In the middle of Western Sahara desert, where no water, no trees, no animals live but a bunch of refugees, struggling in poverty to survive the harsh...
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- 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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- 2017

Daniela, the value of perseverance
Daniela, the value of perseverance02017HD
The strength and will of a girl with physical difficulties in Sahrawi society.
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- 2015

Yellow brick road
Yellow brick road02015HD
The camera wanders around old spellbinding cars in the Sahara desert. Two playful and witty little boys show up and alter the course of events. From...
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- 2022

Imminent danger
Imminent danger02022HD
This short film addresses the problems surrounding the appearance of narcotics in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf. These drugs are beginning to...
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- 2014

Legna
Legna82014HD
"Legna: speak the Saharawi verse" is an audiovisual poetry story that traces the essential elements of the Saharawi culture, chaining the verses...
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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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- 2006

Lives on pause
Lives on pause02006HD
Every year, approximately 800 Sahrawi boys and girls leave the refugee camps to study in Cuba, Algeria and Libya… 15 years later, they return...
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- 2013

The runner
The runner02013HD
The Runner is a film about endurance. It is the story of a champion long-distance runner whose journey transformed him from an athlete into the...
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- 2020

To See El Aaiún
To See El Aaiún02020HD
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...
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- 2017

Soukeina, 4400 days of night
Soukeina, 4400 days of night02017HD
After the military occupation of Western Sahara in 1976, Moroccan government attacked the civil population with hard repression, forcing hundreds of...
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- 2023

The hidden fire
The hidden fire02023HD
Silence always surrounds the mine, first when it explodes and then when it eternally haunts its victims. The history of the silence of this fire...
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- 1996

The trunks of return
The trunks of return101996HD
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...
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- 2017

Oasis
Oasis02017HD
OASIS, a documentary that tells us about water's historical role in Western Sahara via the true stories of people who turned this wild desert into a...
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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

The voice of the martyrs
The voice of the martyrs02020HD
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...
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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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