Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

  • 2023
    Unsubmissive

    Unsubmissive

    Unsubmissive

    02023HD

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

    Unsubmissive
  • 1996
    A Sahrawi story

    A Sahrawi story

    A Sahrawi story

    01996HD

    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.

    A Sahrawi story
  • 2020
    Jadijetu's journey

    Jadijetu's journey

    Jadijetu's journey

    02020HD

    The narrative of resistance of Sahrawi poet Jadijetu Alaÿat flows against the background of raveling images from an unknown land.

    Jadijetu's journey
  • 2019
    Crisis

    Crisis

    Crisis

    02019HD

    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...

    Crisis
  • 2009
    Thaidina, music in the desert

    Thaidina, music in the desert

    Thaidina, music in the desert

    02009HD

    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,...

    Thaidina, music in the desert
  • 2017
    Daniela, the value of perseverance

    Daniela, the value of perseverance

    Daniela, the value of perseverance

    02017HD

    The strength and will of a girl with physical difficulties in Sahrawi society.

    Daniela, the value of perseverance
  • 2015
    Yellow brick road

    Yellow brick road

    Yellow brick road

    02015HD

    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...

    Yellow brick road
  • 2022
    Imminent danger

    Imminent danger

    Imminent danger

    02022HD

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

    Imminent danger
  • 2014
    Legna

    Legna

    Legna

    82014HD

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

    Legna
  • 2009
    SADR, justice without war?

    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...

    SADR, justice without war?
  • 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
  • 2013
    The runner

    The runner

    The runner

    02013HD

    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...

    The runner
  • 2020
    To See El Aaiún

    To See El Aaiún

    To See El Aaiún

    02020HD

    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...

    To See El Aaiún
  • 2017
    Soukeina, 4400 days of night

    Soukeina, 4400 days of night

    Soukeina, 4400 days of night

    02017HD

    After the military occupation of Western Sahara in 1976, Moroccan government attacked the civil population with hard repression, forcing hundreds of...

    Soukeina, 4400 days of night
  • 2023
    The hidden fire

    The hidden fire

    The hidden fire

    02023HD

    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...

    The hidden fire
  • 1996
    The trunks of return

    The trunks of return

    The trunks of return

    101996HD

    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...

    The trunks of return
  • 2017
    Oasis

    Oasis

    Oasis

    02017HD

    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...

    Oasis
  • 2019
    Atu, the face of a forgotten nation

    Atu, the face of a forgotten nation

    Atu, the face of a forgotten nation

    02019HD

    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...

    Atu, the face of a forgotten nation
  • 2020
    The voice of the martyrs

    The voice of the martyrs

    The voice of the martyrs

    02020HD

    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...

    The voice of the martyrs
  • 2018
    My society

    My society

    My society

    02018HD

    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,...

    My society