Sahrawi Refugee Camps Filmes
- 2012

Wilaya
Wilaya5.32012HD
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...
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- 2011

Lost land
Lost land5.72011HD
Straddling a 2,400-kilometer-long wall constructed by the Moroccan army, the Western Sahara is today divided into two sections — one occupied...
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- 2021

Desert strawberries
Desert strawberries02021HD
Sahrawi artist and visual poet Mohamed Sleiman Labat follows the story of the emerging phenomenon of small scale family gardens in his local...
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- 2022

The nomad garden
The nomad garden02022HD
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...
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- 2022

Imminent danger
Imminent danger02022HD
This short film addresses the problems surrounding the appearance of narcotics in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf. These drugs are beginning to...
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- 2023

A garden that means more than a garden
A garden that means more than a garden02023HD
Taleb, who came to a refugee camp at the age of five in 1975 and returned there after his studies abroad, tells of his life as a displaced person,...
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- 2012

Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony
Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony6.52012HD
The political upheaval in North Africa is responsibility of the Western powers —especially of the United States and France— due to the...
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- 2011

Nollywood, Smara
Nollywood, Smara102011HD
Smara is the city of dust, kingdom of sirocco, a surviving ruin of a suffocating region… Thousands of Sahrawis who fled Western Sahara after...
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- 2010

The mirror bird
The mirror bird02010HD
Bubisher, as well as being 'the bird of luck', is a word loaded with literary meaning in Spanish in the Sahrawi refugee camps of Tindouf. Seeing the...
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- 1999

Lalia
Lalia01999HD
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...
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- 2013

A divided homeland
A divided homeland02013HD
The story of young Ahmed Tarfi might as well be the story of the Sahrawi people’s difficulties, and particularly those of the youth. The...
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- 2013

The runner
The runner02013HD
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...
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- 2010

School desks in the desert
School desks in the desert02010HD
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....
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- 2012

Sweep the desert
Sweep the desert02012HD
A documentary about the daily lives, hopes, aspirations and demands of though living in the Sahrawi refugee camps of Dajla.
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- 2009

Letter
Letter02009HD
A young girl, frustrated with the never-ending peace process, hopes to hand over a letter containing her suffering and dreams of independence to the...
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- 2019

Hamada
Hamada62019HD
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...
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- 2016

Portrait
Portrait02016HD
28-year-old Azman, a student in the film school Abidin Kaid Saleh, explains how he discovered film in the Sahrawi refugee camps, the difficulties he...
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- 2023

Al Nujum - The stars
Al Nujum - The stars02023HD
For over 40 years, the Sahrawi population, as refugees, has been waiting peacefully to return to their homeland after Morocco's illegal invasion of...
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- 2004

Sahara Marathon
Sahara Marathon02004HD
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...
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- 2010

Little grains of sand
Little grains of sand02010HD
A documentary about the lives of Sahrawi refugees in the Tindouf camps (Algeria). A didactic video for families hosting Sahrawi minors in the...
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