Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

  • 2010
    Nothing happens

    Nothing happens

    Nothing happens

    02010HD

    In the Sahrahwi refugee camp of Dajla, south of Algeria lives Mohamed Brahim Selma, also known as Belgha; Shepherd and poet of the Tiris region who...

    Nothing happens
  • 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
  • 1970
    A wall in the desert

    A wall in the desert

    A wall in the desert

    01970HD

    The filmmaker presents the living conditions of the Sahrawi people who survive in refugee camps in the middle of the desert. These series of animated...

    A wall in the desert
  • 2020
    Searching for Tirfas

    Searching for Tirfas

    Searching for Tirfas

    02020HD

    When you are born in refugee camps, you grow up dreaming that one day you will live in your homeland, and as time goes on, this never goes beyond...

    Searching for Tirfas
  • 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
  • 2018
    Tito

    Tito

    Tito

    02018HD

    Tito likes playing football and tries to get good marks at school but unfortunately, he has some issues that shouldn't have children of his age....

    Tito
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2012
    Imaging sleeping at home

    Imaging sleeping at home

    Imaging sleeping at home

    02012HD

    "Imagine sleeping at home" follows the story of several children who guide us to understand the conflict and the problems that they face, but also...

    Imaging sleeping at home
  • 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
  • 2008
    The whisper of the sand

    The whisper of the sand

    The whisper of the sand

    02008HD

    Awserd refugee camp, Tindouf. Fatma has not seen her brother for 30 years, since they parted after the Moroccan invasion of Western Sahara. Now he is...

    The whisper of the sand
  • 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
  • 2010
    Little grains of sand

    Little grains of sand

    Little grains of sand

    02010HD

    A documentary about the lives of Sahrawi refugees in the Tindouf camps (Algeria). A didactic video for families hosting Sahrawi minors in the...

    Little grains of sand
  • 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
  • 2009
    Magic Sahara

    Magic Sahara

    Magic Sahara

    02009HD

    The magic of life in the desert and that which takes place on a stage, the tricks that one has to learn in order to survive and those that bring a...

    Magic Sahara
  • 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
  • 2019
    Bubisher: art and fight

    Bubisher: art and fight

    Bubisher: art and fight

    02019HD

    Art and culture as a fight against injustice and oblivion. The Saharawi people, with creative processes, claim their right to the land from which...

    Bubisher: art and fight
  • 2016
    When the sun came for them

    When the sun came for them

    When the sun came for them

    02016HD

    When the Sun Came for Them is a series of interviews with the nomadic Saharawi people in the Western Sahara. They discuss their remarkable history,...

    When the sun came for them
  • 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
  • 2013
    Chabiba

    Chabiba

    Chabiba

    02013HD

    In Hassaniya, the mother tongue of the Sahrawi people "Chabiba" means youth. In the Sahrawi tradition conversations, revolves around a good tea....

    Chabiba