Occupied Territories Movies

  • 2010
    25 minutes of Sahara

    25 minutes of Sahara

    25 minutes of Sahara

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    25 minutes in the Sahara, is a snapshot of the 34 years of division in which resistance and justice for the Sahrawi community has played out. 1500...

    25 minutes of Sahara
  • 2012
    La badil

    La badil

    La badil

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    La Badil (No Other Choice), was filmed undercover in the Moroccan controlled territories of Western Sahara, on the eve of the second anniversary of...

    La badil
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2015
    Messages from Western Sahara

    Messages from Western Sahara

    Messages from Western Sahara

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    Stories of resistance, words of pain and suffering, tales of life and death, and in particular of dignity, that show the reality that the Sahrawi...

    Messages from Western Sahara
  • 2016
    Tell them I exist

    Tell them I exist

    Tell them I exist

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    Tell them I exist paints the portraits of Naâma Asfari, a Sahrawi jurist and pro-independence activist sentenced to 30 years detention in...

    Tell them I exist
  • 2016
    News from Laayoune

    News from Laayoune

    News from Laayoune

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    The film follows a couple of young boys in the Saharian refugee camp „February 27“ located in the bleak desert area of southwestern...

    News from Laayoune
  • 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
  • 2011
    Gdeim Izik: catalyst of the Arab Spring

    Gdeim Izik: catalyst of the Arab Spring

    Gdeim Izik: catalyst of the Arab Spring

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    This documentary illustrates the story of Gdeim Izik through the voices of the Sahrawis themselves, giving personal accounts of how the camp was...

    Gdeim Izik: catalyst of the Arab Spring
  • 2013
    Just to let you know that I'm alive

    Just to let you know that I'm alive

    Just to let you know that I'm alive

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    Enforced disappearances, torture, secret prisons, mass graves, no trial and no justice. The history of Western Sahara, the area south of Morocco with...

    Just to let you know that I'm alive
  • 2016
    Rofles or graffiti: the non-violent fight of the Sahrawi people

    Rofles or graffiti: the non-violent fight of the Sahrawi people

    Rofles or graffiti: the non-violent fight of the Sahrawi people

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    Many Saharawis are claiming to return to war in order to break the impasse of wainting during 40 years. However, the Sahrawi nonviolent activists...

    Rofles or graffiti: the non-violent fight of the Sahrawi people
  • 2020
    Jadijetu's journey

    Jadijetu's journey

    Jadijetu's journey

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    The narrative of resistance of Sahrawi poet Jadijetu Alaÿat flows against the background of raveling images from an unknown land.

    Jadijetu's journey
  • 2020
    Amaidan Salah: the Saharawi marathon

    Amaidan Salah: the Saharawi marathon

    Amaidan Salah: the Saharawi marathon

    02020HD

    A documentary about the situation of the saharawi people in the refugee camps of Tindouf through the life and participation in the 2019 Sahara...

    Amaidan Salah: the Saharawi marathon
  • 2021
    You can't get there from here

    You can't get there from here

    You can't get there from here

    02021HD

    An international team of 4 friends undertake the Plymouth to Dakar Challenge a ‘banger rally’ which annually shadows the route of the...

    You can't get there from here
  • 2009
    SADR, justice without war?

    SADR, justice without war?

    SADR, justice without war?

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    This documentary shows the torments and comrade disappearance ocurrences in the Moroccan Occupied Western Sahara through the eyes of Yahia, a young...

    SADR, justice without war?
  • 2007
    Children of the clouds

    Children of the clouds

    Children of the clouds

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    In May 2005, after 30 years of Moroccan occupation, Saharawi students initiated a series of peaceful demonstrations demanding their right to the...

    Children of the clouds
  • 2010
    Sahrawis, between occupation and exile

    Sahrawis, between occupation and exile

    Sahrawis, between occupation and exile

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    From a chronological perspective, “Saharauis, entre la ocupación y el exilio” (2010) explains the origins and key points of the...

    Sahrawis, between occupation and exile
  • 2010
    Gdeim Izik's cry

    Gdeim Izik's cry

    Gdeim Izik's cry

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    This peaceful camp protested the hard living conditions under Moroccan occupation and in favour of Sahrawi self-determination. This documentary shows...

    Gdeim Izik's cry
  • 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
  • 2011
    Silent Sahara rising

    Silent Sahara rising

    Silent Sahara rising

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    "Once you demand any rights...you are immediately arrested", Ahmed, a graduate says. As elsewhere, the Internet has become a key tool for getting...

    Silent Sahara rising