Western Sahara Movies

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...

Western Sahara is a conflict region located in North West Africa. After a bloody war in the region, the land is littered with landmines and war...

A video activist group is struggling to keep their cameras in the occupied Western Sahara where the Moroccan authorities have managed to implement a...

The Year of Balls tells about part of the colonial history in Western Sahara from the perspective of the Saharawi nomads, and the systemic...

The Runner is a film about endurance. It is the story of a champion long-distance runner whose journey transformed him from an athlete into the...

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

A feature-length documentary on energy, inequality, and the uneven terrain of the climate transition, focused on three communities in South Africa,...

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

Toufa recreates the beginnings of the Sahrawi population’s arrival in the Hamada’s arid desert. This short film tells of the suffering of...

How would you claim your identity in a hostile land? How could you live under harassment and repression? How would you make your voice break through...

The documentary #FreeSultana, tells the story of a Sahrawi activist who has been under house arrest for a year with her entire family, without a...

This short film addresses the problems surrounding the appearance of narcotics in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf. These drugs are beginning to...

Documentary that delvs into the legend of Haddara, a Saharawi child who after getting lost in a sandstorm in the desert was adopted by the ostriches...

For over 40 years, the Sahrawi population, as refugees, has been waiting peacefully to return to their homeland after Morocco's illegal invasion of...

HAIYU interweaves Mariem Hassan’s music and her personal quest for her country’s independence with larger historical events dating back...

Their desert was not the same since they last saw it. The dunes kept memories of a childhood bathed in sun and sand, when minutes passed by in a...

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

Bidun Hawiya is a documentary short film that intends to make society reflect on the Sahrawi people’s loss of identity, as they are forced to...

The story of the film is inspired by the reality of the suffering of the Sahrawi people under Moroccan occupation.

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