Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

  • 2009
    Hammada

    Hammada

    Hammada

    02009HD

    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...

    Hammada
  • 2017
    Daniela, the value of perseverance

    Daniela, the value of perseverance

    Daniela, the value of perseverance

    02017HD

    The strength and will of a girl with physical difficulties in Sahrawi society.

    Daniela, the value of perseverance
  • 2014
    Musawat, inclusion in the Sahrawi camps

    Musawat, inclusion in the Sahrawi camps

    Musawat, inclusion in the Sahrawi camps

    02014HD

    Education Center for disabled children located in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria. Despite the precarious conditions in which this population...

    Musawat, inclusion in the Sahrawi camps
  • 2016
    Words of caramel

    Words of caramel

    Words of caramel

    02016HD

    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...

    Words of caramel
  • 2014
    Gurba, the condemned

    Gurba, the condemned

    Gurba, the condemned

    02014HD

    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...

    Gurba, the condemned
  • 2023
    Jaima

    Jaima

    Jaima

    02023HD

    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,...

    Jaima
  • 2016
    The Desert of the desert

    The Desert of the desert

    The Desert of the desert

    02016HD

    '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...

    The Desert of the desert
  • 2011
    The ladies of the desert

    The ladies of the desert

    The ladies of the desert

    02011HD

    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...

    The ladies of the desert
  • 2017
    Soukeina, 4400 days of night

    Soukeina, 4400 days of night

    Soukeina, 4400 days of night

    02017HD

    After the military occupation of Western Sahara in 1976, Moroccan government attacked the civil population with hard repression, forcing hundreds of...

    Soukeina, 4400 days of night
  • 2023
    The time after the rain

    The time after the rain

    The time after the rain

    22023HD

    Young Mohamed Dih, who in Seville, returns to his birthplace – a refugee camp in Western Sahara. Time flows differently here: the times of the...

    The time after the rain
  • 2020
    The voice of the martyrs

    The voice of the martyrs

    The voice of the martyrs

    02020HD

    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...

    The voice of the martyrs
  • 2007
    Sand compass

    Sand compass

    Sand compass

    02007HD

    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...

    Sand compass
  • 2020
    To See El Aaiún

    To See El Aaiún

    To See El Aaiún

    02020HD

    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...

    To See El Aaiún
  • 2018
    My society

    My society

    My society

    02018HD

    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,...

    My society
  • 2015
    Yellow brick road

    Yellow brick road

    Yellow brick road

    02015HD

    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...

    Yellow brick road
  • 2009
    Sahrawis, a glimpse into exile

    Sahrawis, a glimpse into exile

    Sahrawis, a glimpse into exile

    02009HD

    Filmed in the camps of Sahrawi refugees living in West-Algeria and Tifaritti (the liberated territory). The narrator, in his multiple interviews,...

    Sahrawis, a glimpse into exile
  • 2022
    The nomad garden

    The nomad garden

    The nomad garden

    02022HD

    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...

    The nomad garden
  • 2014
    Coría and the sea

    Coría and the sea

    Coría and the sea

    02014HD

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

    Coría and the sea
  • 2021
    Desert strawberries

    Desert strawberries

    Desert strawberries

    02021HD

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

    Desert strawberries
  • 2008
    Belgha, the alive memory

    Belgha, the alive memory

    Belgha, the alive memory

    02008HD

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

    Belgha, the alive memory