Western Sahara Movies
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 2019

Waiting for the UN
Waiting for the UN02019HD
Waiting for the UN is a poetic documentary about life in the desert, literally and figuratively. We follow the everyday life of a Saharawi family...
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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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- 2010

Gdeim Izik's cry
Gdeim Izik's cry02010HD
This peaceful camp protested the hard living conditions under Moroccan occupation and in favour of Sahrawi self-determination. This documentary shows...
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- 2014

Legna
Legna82014HD
"Legna: speak the Saharawi verse" is an audiovisual poetry story that traces the essential elements of the Saharawi culture, chaining the verses...
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- 2014

A message to Obama
A message to Obama02014HD
"A message to Obama" is a true story about a black man that writes a letter to the President of the United States of America - Barack Obama. The film...
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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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- 2019

R1514, the waiting
R1514, the waiting02019HD
The documentary show us their hard work in order to live with dignity and the importance of education and the position of woman, both key facts in...
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- 2016

Time zero. What to expect when waiting in the Sahara?
Time zero. What to expect when waiting in the Sahara?02016HD
The documentary reflects the voices and photographic looks Saharawi women because they are the protagonists of this project allows us to see between...
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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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- 2014

L'Aarifa
L'Aarifa02014HD
L'Aarifa is the name given to a post within the political structure of the Polisario. In the Sahrawi refugee camps this post is held by women who, at...
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- 2010

Sahrawi women in the occupied territories
Sahrawi women in the occupied territories02010HD
Equipe Media presents a short film about the history and situation of Sahrawi women.
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- 2017

Barber shop
Barber shop02017HD
In Smara refugee camp, barber Mohammed treats customers of different generations.
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- 2017

Bidun Hawiya
Bidun Hawiya02017HD
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...
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- 2020

Searching for Tirfas
Searching for Tirfas02020HD
When you are born in refugee camps, you grow up dreaming that one day you will live in your homeland, and as time goes on, this never goes beyond...
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- 2019

Bou Craa
Bou Craa02019HD
Bou Craa is an investigative short documentary about the plundering of the natural resources of Western Sahara. Nushatta's Reporters At Risk For...
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- 2011

Gdeim Izik: catalyst of the Arab Spring
Gdeim Izik: catalyst of the Arab Spring02011HD
This documentary illustrates the story of Gdeim Izik through the voices of the Sahrawis themselves, giving personal accounts of how the camp was...
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- 2010

The white melpha
The white melpha02010HD
A white melfa (Sahrawi traditional dress) contains the written desires of a group of young Sahrawi women.
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