Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies
- 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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- 2021

The people of the waves
The people of the waves02021HD
I am a girl of the waves, from a village of seafarers. Some days, I go out with my boat to the sea. But I don’t go alone. Maoimouna comes with...
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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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- 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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- 2008

Western Sahara, a nation that wants to exist
Western Sahara, a nation that wants to exist02008HD
The documentary gives as overview of the history of the Sahrawi people and their current situation in the refugee camps and in the liberated...
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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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- 2016

Embarka's world
Embarka's world02016HD
Embarka, Sahrawi girl, born in a world that wasn't her world.
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- 2020

Sahrawi, welcome
Sahrawi, welcome02020HD
"We used to travel trough Sahara in quest for clouds. We did not depend on no airplanes, nor cars, just on our camels” Sahrawi grandpas recall...
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- 1999

Sahara, the cherished referendum
Sahara, the cherished referendum01999HD
Looking at the situation of the Sahrawi people in 1999, the documentary examines different aspects of institutions and organisation methods from the...
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- 2009

DEHBA
DEHBA02009HD
Reflects the daily life of a child in a Sahrawi school
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- 2010

25 minutes of Sahara
25 minutes of Sahara02010HD
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...
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- 2020

Toufa
Toufa02020HD
Toufa recreates the beginnings of the Sahrawi population’s arrival in the Hamada’s arid desert. This short film tells of the suffering of...
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- 2011

The Sahrawi teacher
The Sahrawi teacher02011HD
For more than thirty years, tens of thousands of Saharawi have lived in makeshift camps, refugees in the Algerian desert. Because of this situation,...
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- 1992

Goulili, tell me, my sister
Goulili, tell me, my sister01992HD
The Sahrawi women relate their exil, the tortures, their memories and the difficulties of life as refugees. They are beautiful, touching... Educated...
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- 2012

Imaging sleeping at home
Imaging sleeping at home02012HD
"Imagine sleeping at home" follows the story of several children who guide us to understand the conflict and the problems that they face, but also...
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- 2006

Lives on pause
Lives on pause02006HD
Every year, approximately 800 Sahrawi boys and girls leave the refugee camps to study in Cuba, Algeria and Libya… 15 years later, they return...
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- 2018

In the Devil's garden
In the Devil's garden02018HD
The film situates the viewer within a makeshift space of an animal market in Algeria. Drifting between feeding and waiting, one attunes to the bodies...
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- 2020

To See El Aaiún
To See El Aaiún02020HD
In the depths of the Algerian desert the Sahrawi people have been dwelling in the refugee camps for over 40 years. Camps gradually turned into...
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- 2012

Smara's smile
Smara's smile02012HD
This is the story of Buyema Abdelfatan, also known as Castro, an ex Saharan soldier that now a days runs a centre for disabled children in the...
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- 2012

Fertile sand
Fertile sand02012HD
Budha is one of the many children living in Refugee Camps for Sahrawi. One afternoon, he decides to stop playing football with his friends to play in...
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