Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies
- 2009

Heiresses
Heiresses02009HD
Two planes take off at the same time headed in opposite directions. Fatimetu and Ejehla. Two distinct lives destined to follow similar paths. One...
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- 2009

DEHBA
DEHBA02009HD
Reflects the daily life of a child in a Sahrawi school
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- 2018

In the Devil's garden
In the Devil's garden02018HD
The film situates the viewer within a makeshift space of an animal market in Algeria. Drifting between feeding and waiting, one attunes to the bodies...
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- 2008

Nearly forgotten
Nearly forgotten02008HD
In the most inhospitable terrain of the legendary Saharan desert, lies the refugee camps of the Sahrawi Arab Republic. It is there that 5 young...
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- 2014

For sleepless nights
For sleepless nights02014HD
"… Choose a starless night in the part you line the Best in the city".
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- 2010

25 minutes of Sahara
25 minutes of Sahara02010HD
25 minutes in the Sahara, is a snapshot of the 34 years of division in which resistance and justice for the Sahrawi community has played out. 1500...
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- 2019

R1514, the waiting
R1514, the waiting02019HD
The documentary show us their hard work in order to live with dignity and the importance of education and the position of woman, both key facts in...
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- 2011

Nollywood, Smara
Nollywood, Smara102011HD
Smara is the city of dust, kingdom of sirocco, a surviving ruin of a suffocating region… Thousands of Sahrawis who fled Western Sahara after...
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- 2015

Humaná, feeding wilayas
Humaná, feeding wilayas02015HD
Humaná tells two stories, the daily life of a Sahrawi refugee and food they receive to live and hard process of distributing hundreds of tons...
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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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- 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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- 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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- 2019

Waiting for the UN
Waiting for the UN02019HD
Waiting for the UN is a poetic documentary about life in the desert, literally and figuratively. We follow the everyday life of a Saharawi family...
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- 1992

Goulili, tell me, my sister
Goulili, tell me, my sister01992HD
The Sahrawi women relate their exil, the tortures, their memories and the difficulties of life as refugees. They are beautiful, touching... Educated...
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- 2016

On leased land
On leased land02016HD
The testimony of several generations of Saharawi refugees, shows us the harshness of life in the inhospitable Algerian desert, after more than 40...
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- 2016

Portrait
Portrait02016HD
28-year-old Azman, a student in the film school Abidin Kaid Saleh, explains how he discovered film in the Sahrawi refugee camps, the difficulties he...
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- 2020

Toufa
Toufa02020HD
Toufa recreates the beginnings of the Sahrawi population’s arrival in the Hamada’s arid desert. This short film tells of the suffering of...
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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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- 2010

Sukut, the memory of silence
Sukut, the memory of silence02010HD
In the refugee camps of Tindouf, for more than 30 years the Sahrawi people is waiting to get the goal that forced them to exile: to return to their...
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- 2023

A garden that means more than a garden
A garden that means more than a garden02023HD
Taleb, who came to a refugee camp at the age of five in 1975 and returned there after his studies abroad, tells of his life as a displaced person,...
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