Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies
- 2009

Hammada
Hammada02009HD
Dadah, a Sahrawi boy living in the Dakhla refugee camp, knows nothing beyond life in the desert, the sand-filled air, the ever-present dunes on the...
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- 2017

Daniela, the value of perseverance
Daniela, the value of perseverance02017HD
The strength and will of a girl with physical difficulties in Sahrawi society.
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- 2014

Musawat, inclusion in the Sahrawi camps
Musawat, inclusion in the Sahrawi camps02014HD
Education Center for disabled children located in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria. Despite the precarious conditions in which this population...
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- 2016

Words of caramel
Words of caramel02016HD
In a refugee camp in the Sahara desert lives a deaf boy who wants to learn to write. Welcome to the silent world of Kori and his best friend the...
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- 2014

Gurba, the condemned
Gurba, the condemned02014HD
Siya, Dumaha, Mata and Aziz are Saharawi refugees that live in camps in Tindouf (Algeria). They show us the daily extreme harshness of an exile that...
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- 2023

Jaima
Jaima02023HD
In the dunes of the Sahara, a Jaima, the traditional Saharawi tent. Through the tea ritual, a woman takes us into the past and present of her people,...
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- 2016

The Desert of the desert
The Desert of the desert02016HD
'The Desert of the Desert' is a feature documentary about one of the longest-running and least- known colonial conflicts and the plight of the...
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- 2011

The ladies of the desert
The ladies of the desert02011HD
The film offers an insight into a nearly forgotten world. The times when the Sahrawi war of independence was on the international agenda seem to be...
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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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- 2023

The time after the rain
The time after the rain22023HD
Young Mohamed Dih, who in Seville, returns to his birthplace – a refugee camp in Western Sahara. Time flows differently here: the times of the...
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- 2020

The voice of the martyrs
The voice of the martyrs02020HD
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...
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- 2007

Sand compass
Sand compass02007HD
A Crew of Mexican filmmakers decide to cross the world to go in search of a nomad who would guide them in the sea of sand, to find the cave of the...
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- 2020

To See El Aaiún
To See El Aaiún02020HD
In the depths of the Algerian desert the Sahrawi people have been dwelling in the refugee camps for over 40 years. Camps gradually turned into...
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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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- 2015

Yellow brick road
Yellow brick road02015HD
The camera wanders around old spellbinding cars in the Sahara desert. Two playful and witty little boys show up and alter the course of events. From...
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- 2009

Sahrawis, a glimpse into exile
Sahrawis, a glimpse into exile02009HD
Filmed in the camps of Sahrawi refugees living in West-Algeria and Tifaritti (the liberated territory). The narrator, in his multiple interviews,...
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- 2022

The nomad garden
The nomad garden02022HD
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...
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- 2014

Coría and the sea
Coría and the sea02014HD
This is a story about women who are fighters, tenacious, hopeful, active women…who were capable of lifting, from nothingness, in the harshest...
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- 2021

Desert strawberries
Desert strawberries02021HD
Sahrawi artist and visual poet Mohamed Sleiman Labat follows the story of the emerging phenomenon of small scale family gardens in his local...
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- 2008

Belgha, the alive memory
Belgha, the alive memory02008HD
Selma Mohamed Brahim, known as Belgha, lives in the Dajla Saharaui refugee camp in Southern Algeria. He has dedicated his life to preserving the...
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