Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

This film offers a picture of the tense situation in which the Sahrawi people have lived for more than 30 years. The yearly celebration of a marathon...

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...

The political upheaval in North Africa is responsibility of the Western powers —especially of the United States and France— due to the...

Filled with vitality, humor and unexpected situations, Hamada paints an unusual portrait of a group of young friends living in a refugee camp in the...

As I´m tiny, the night seems to dark to me, so I swicht on the light in case the wardrobe monster is scared.

Fatimetu returns to the Wilaya of Smara for the funeral of her mother, after 16 years living in Spain. There she meets her brother Jatri, who is...

Lalia is a Saharaui girl who lives in a refugee camp in Algiers. She has only heard her grandmother and grandfather talk about her country, about the...

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

Since birth, Najla has lived in a refugee camp in the Algerian Sahara. Over the course of ten years, the film follows the activist as she peacefully...

Mektub portrays a day in the life in the Sahrawi refugee camps, along with the declarations of some of its protagonists. But behind this seemingly...

Documentary about the arduous early years of the Sahrawi cause (1977)

In the middle of Western Sahara desert, where no water, no trees, no animals live but a bunch of refugees, struggling in poverty to survive the harsh...

There are towns that build their lives from the will where the inert reigns, where the landscape is arid and dead and there are only infinite...

Spanish actor Pepe Viyuela embarks on a personal journey on the trail of his grandfather Gervasio, a soldier in the Republican Army during the...

Saharawi women have always been at the forefront of the resistance against colonialism and the plunder of their territory by Morocco. In spite of...

The Sahrawi people have lived in exile for almost half a century in the driest desert of the African continent. There, where basic resources such as...

The Saharawi women face the thirst of the hamada, the curse of the desert, every day. They’ve built their refuge in a land where no one could...

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...

Reality documentary that chronicles the Saharawi refugees living in camps in the Tindouf Hammada, Algeria, Sahara desert. Through an informative...

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...