Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

  • 2008
    Western Sahara, a nation that wants to exist

    Western Sahara, a nation that wants to exist

    Western Sahara, a nation that wants to exist

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    The documentary gives as overview of the history of the Sahrawi people and their current situation in the refugee camps and in the liberated...

    Western Sahara, a nation that wants to exist
  • 2016
    Kafana (Enough, already!)

    Kafana (Enough, already!)

    Kafana (Enough, already!)

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    A revealing story about Saharawi refugees, their identity, and their exile of more than 40 years in the Algerian desert where they have built up a...

    Kafana (Enough, already!)
  • 2012
    Imaging sleeping at home

    Imaging sleeping at home

    Imaging sleeping at home

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    "Imagine sleeping at home" follows the story of several children who guide us to understand the conflict and the problems that they face, but also...

    Imaging sleeping at home
  • 2011
    Lost land

    Lost land

    Lost land

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    Straddling a 2,400-kilometer-long wall constructed by the Moroccan army, the Western Sahara is today divided into two sections — one occupied...

    Lost land
  • 2018
    The impossible cities

    The impossible cities

    The impossible cities

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    Between 1947 and 1949 the photographer based in the Canary Islands Bonifacio Hernández Gil made numerous photographs for the army and the...

    The impossible cities
  • 2020
    Sahrawi women, pillars of life Hunna Raquizat Alhayat

    Sahrawi women, pillars of life Hunna Raquizat Alhayat

    Sahrawi women, pillars of life Hunna Raquizat Alhayat

    02020HD

    Médicos del Mundo Sahara presents the "Hunna Raquizat Alhayat" campaign that tells the stories of 17 Saharawi refugee women with different...

    Sahrawi women, pillars of life Hunna Raquizat Alhayat
  • 2008
    I am the other

    I am the other

    I am the other

    02008HD

    It happens in Ecuador and South Korea, in Italy, in Venezuela and also in Western Sahara. Three men and two women live every day acting against the...

    I am the other
  • 2024
    Women of the free Sahara

    Women of the free Sahara

    Women of the free Sahara

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    The Sahara has been and is populated by peoples who have passed through and occupied it since time immemorial. The Sahrawis are one of these peoples....

    Women of the free Sahara
  • 2019
    Bubisher: art and fight

    Bubisher: art and fight

    Bubisher: art and fight

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    Art and culture as a fight against injustice and oblivion. The Saharawi people, with creative processes, claim their right to the land from which...

    Bubisher: art and fight
  • 2008
    Wait, Fati!

    Wait, Fati!

    Wait, Fati!

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    The story of a Saharan family as it celebrates a wedding in the Tindouf refugee camp. The wedding is both the reason and the starting point for...

    Wait, Fati!
  • 2010
    School desks in the desert

    School desks in the desert

    School desks in the desert

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    A nine-year old girl, Naha, who in day-to-day life studies primary education en Wilaya de Smara is the point of departure for this documentary....

    School desks in the desert
  • 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
  • 2013
    Chabiba

    Chabiba

    Chabiba

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    In Hassaniya, the mother tongue of the Sahrawi people "Chabiba" means youth. In the Sahrawi tradition conversations, revolves around a good tea....

    Chabiba
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2020
    Three territories: a landscape, a nation, a right

    Three territories: a landscape, a nation, a right

    Three territories: a landscape, a nation, a right

    02020HD

    Documentary that explains the current climate of political turmoil in the north of Africa caused by the embedded problem of the decolonization of...

    Three territories: a landscape, a nation, a right
  • 2021
    The people of the waves

    The people of the waves

    The people of the waves

    02021HD

    I am a girl of the waves, from a village of seafarers. Some days, I go out with my boat to the sea. But I don’t go alone. Maoimouna comes with...

    The people of the waves
  • 2023
    Champs-Élysées

    Champs-Élysées

    Champs-Élysées

    02023HD

    A boy has a dream of traveling to the world, especially to Paris where his uncle lives, but a wall built on his land divides his country and does not...

    Champs-Élysées
  • 2023
    A refuge in the stars

    A refuge in the stars

    A refuge in the stars

    02023HD

    The Sahara desert occupies a third of the African continent and is one of the most inhospitable regions on the planet. The region is dry enough to...

    A refuge in the stars
  • 2017
    Oasis

    Oasis

    Oasis

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    OASIS, a documentary that tells us about water's historical role in Western Sahara via the true stories of people who turned this wild desert into a...

    Oasis