Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

WESTERN: SAHARA documented the pre-production of an audiovisual participatory project at Saharawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria. From the trailer...

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

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...

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

Forty years after its people were promised freedom by departing Spanish rulers, Western Sahara remains Africa's last colony. This film chronicles the...

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...

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...

"We used to travel trough Sahara in quest for clouds. We did not depend on no airplanes, nor cars, just on our camels” Sahrawi grandpas recall...

From the Sahrawi refugee camps of Tindouf (Algeria) to Tifariti (freed territories of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic), we embark hand in hand...

Documentary that explains the current climate of political turmoil in the north of Africa caused by the embedded problem of the decolonization of...

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 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...

I am a girl of the waves, from a village of seafarers. Some days, I go out with my boat to the sea. But I don’t go alone. Maoimouna comes with...

From a chronological perspective, “Saharauis, entre la ocupación y el exilio” (2010) explains the origins and key points of the...

For more than thirty years, tens of thousands of Saharawi have lived in makeshift camps, refugees in the Algerian desert. Because of this situation,...

Salka was born as a refugee in the Sahara desert, and grew up in Italy by chance: she was one of the so-called "Little Peace Ambassadors". Sahrawis...

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...

The documentary tells how 35 years of struggle of Sahrawi people became the starting of the Arab spring. From both side of the wall, Sahrawi tell us...

Selma Mohamed Brahim, known as Belgha, lives in the Dajla Saharaui refugee camp in Southern Algeria. He has dedicated his life to preserving the...

Benda, a young Sahrawi woman in the diaspora wonders about the future of her people's children and women. We accompany her on an emotional journey to...