Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies
- 2011

The other side of the wall
The other side of the wall02011HD
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...
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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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- 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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- 2016

Time zero. What to expect when waiting in the Sahara?
Time zero. What to expect when waiting in the Sahara?02016HD
The documentary reflects the voices and photographic looks Saharawi women because they are the protagonists of this project allows us to see between...
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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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- 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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- 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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- 2006

Lives on pause
Lives on pause02006HD
Every year, approximately 800 Sahrawi boys and girls leave the refugee camps to study in Cuba, Algeria and Libya… 15 years later, they return...
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- 2017

Barber shop
Barber shop02017HD
In Smara refugee camp, barber Mohammed treats customers of different generations.
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- 2023

The hidden fire
The hidden fire02023HD
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...
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- 2018

February 27th
February 27th02018HD
Documentary about refugees from Western Sahara living in Algeria.
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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

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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- 2021

A plant in the desert
A plant in the desert02021HD
A photography workshop in the Sahrawi refugee camps shows the situation of uprooted people through their own eyes. At the same time, the direc- tor...
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- 2022

WANIBIK: The people who live in front of their land
WANIBIK: The people who live in front of their land02022HD
The film, shot in the Saharawi refugee population camps, tells the story of a group of students from a film school who, for their final year project,...
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- 2025

The reflection on the sand
The reflection on the sand02025HD
The rocks, sculpted by sea and wind, stand resilient, displaying the scars of the fragments torn away. From that beach, a young Sahrawi embarks on a...
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- 2009

Thaidina, music in the desert
Thaidina, music in the desert02009HD
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,...
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- 2018

The madman of the desert
The madman of the desert02018HD
This documentary tells the story of Tateh Lehbib, a Saharawi refugee who after studying Renewable Energy at the University of Algiers and then a...
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- 2002

Tuizza, among women
Tuizza, among women02002HD
Tuizza is the story of the Sahrawi women, who through their effort, have made one of the most inhospitable places in the planet, habitable.
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- 2018

My friend Nayem
My friend Nayem02018HD
Tomás, lives in Potosí, a popular neighborhood of Bogotá in Colombia and Nayem, a Saharaui kid from the refugee camps of...
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