Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

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 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...

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

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...

Habub and Marcos establish a relationship through “video letters” during the wintertime. Through these videos, we see what daily life is...

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...

The relevant NGOs and the Spanish film industry have organized the First International Sahara Film Festival, with the official objective of bringing...

Eager to escape a life of confinement in the refugee camps of Western Sahara in Algeria, Mariam flees into the desert to join the army, naively...

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...

In April of 2006 a total of 150 disposable cameras were distributed in two of the Sahrawi refugee camps with the objective of producing a...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Education Center for disabled children located in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria. Despite the precarious conditions in which this population...

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

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

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...

The rocky desert in southwestern Algeria is the temporary home of about 150,000 refugees from Western Sahara. Goats grazing or the opening of a...