Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

  • 2011
    The other side of the wall

    The other side of the wall

    The other side of the wall

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    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...

    The other side of the wall
  • 2019
    R1514, the waiting

    R1514, the waiting

    R1514, the waiting

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    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...

    R1514, the waiting
  • 2016
    When the sun came for them

    When the sun came for them

    When the sun came for them

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    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
  • 2016
    Time zero. What to expect when waiting in the Sahara?

    Time zero. What to expect when waiting in the Sahara?

    Time zero. What to expect when waiting in the Sahara?

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    The documentary reflects the voices and photographic looks Saharawi women because they are the protagonists of this project allows us to see between...

    Time zero. What to expect when waiting in the Sahara?
  • 2011
    Nollywood, Smara

    Nollywood, Smara

    Nollywood, Smara

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

    Nollywood, Smara
  • 2016
    Portrait

    Portrait

    Portrait

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    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...

    Portrait
  • 2014
    L'Aarifa

    L'Aarifa

    L'Aarifa

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    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
  • 2006
    Lives on pause

    Lives on pause

    Lives on pause

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

    Lives on pause
  • 2017
    Barber shop

    Barber shop

    Barber shop

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    In Smara refugee camp, barber Mohammed treats customers of different generations.

    Barber shop
  • 2023
    The hidden fire

    The hidden fire

    The hidden fire

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    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...

    The hidden fire
  • 2018
    February 27th

    February 27th

    February 27th

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    Documentary about refugees from Western Sahara living in Algeria.

    February 27th
  • 2020
    Searching for Tirfas

    Searching for Tirfas

    Searching for Tirfas

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    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
    Sea of sand

    Sea of sand

    Sea of sand

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    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
  • 2021
    A plant in the desert

    A plant in the desert

    A plant in the desert

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    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...

    A plant in the desert
  • 2022
    WANIBIK: The people who live in front of their land

    WANIBIK: The people who live in front of their land

    WANIBIK: The people who live in front of their land

    02022HD

    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,...

    WANIBIK: The people who live in front of their land
  • 2025
    The reflection on the sand

    The reflection on the sand

    The reflection on the sand

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    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...

    The reflection on the sand
  • 2009
    Thaidina, music in the desert

    Thaidina, music in the desert

    Thaidina, music in the desert

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    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,...

    Thaidina, music in the desert
  • 2018
    The madman of the desert

    The madman of the desert

    The madman of the desert

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    This documentary tells the story of Tateh Lehbib, a Saharawi refugee who after studying Renewable Energy at the University of Algiers and then a...

    The madman of the desert
  • 2002
    Tuizza, among women

    Tuizza, among women

    Tuizza, among women

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

    Tuizza, among women
  • 2018
    My friend Nayem

    My friend Nayem

    My friend Nayem

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

    My friend Nayem