Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies
- 2010

Nothing happens
Nothing happens02010HD
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...
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- 1999

Sahara, the cherished referendum
Sahara, the cherished referendum01999HD
Looking at the situation of the Sahrawi people in 1999, the documentary examines different aspects of institutions and organisation methods from the...
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- 1970

A wall in the desert
A wall in the desert01970HD
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...
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- 2020

Searching for Tirfas
Searching for Tirfas02020HD
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...
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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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- 2018

Tito
Tito02018HD
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....
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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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- 2020

Three territories: a landscape, a nation, a right
Three territories: a landscape, a nation, a right02020HD
Documentary that explains the current climate of political turmoil in the north of Africa caused by the embedded problem of the decolonization of...
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- 2012

Imaging sleeping at home
Imaging sleeping at home02012HD
"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...
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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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- 2008

The whisper of the sand
The whisper of the sand02008HD
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...
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- 2014

L'Aarifa
L'Aarifa02014HD
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...
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- 2010

Little grains of sand
Little grains of sand02010HD
A documentary about the lives of Sahrawi refugees in the Tindouf camps (Algeria). A didactic video for families hosting Sahrawi minors in the...
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- 2013

Sea of sand
Sea of sand02013HD
This documentary explains the problems of Western Sahara while occupied by Morocco, the territories liberated by the Polisario Front, and the refugee...
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- 2009

Magic Sahara
Magic Sahara02009HD
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...
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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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- 2019

Bubisher: art and fight
Bubisher: art and fight02019HD
Art and culture as a fight against injustice and oblivion. The Saharawi people, with creative processes, claim their right to the land from which...
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- 2016

When the sun came for them
When the sun came for them02016HD
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,...
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- 2012

Smara's smile
Smara's smile02012HD
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...
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- 2013

Chabiba
Chabiba02013HD
In Hassaniya, the mother tongue of the Sahrawi people "Chabiba" means youth. In the Sahrawi tradition conversations, revolves around a good tea....
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