Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

  • 2020
    LALGAM - portraits of survival

    LALGAM - portraits of survival

    LALGAM - portraits of survival

    02020HD

    Documentary that denounces the damages caused by the use of land mines in Western Sahara and shows the lives of those affected.

    LALGAM - portraits of survival
  • 2004
    Desert rose

    Desert rose

    Desert rose

    02004HD

    Through images and testimonies of Sahrawi women, this film introduces us to the situation and the living conditions the Sahrawi people have been...

    Desert rose
  • 2025
    The reflection on the sand

    The reflection on the sand

    The reflection on the sand

    02025HD

    The rocks, sculpted by sea and wind, stand resilient, displaying the scars of the fragments torn away. From that beach, a young Sahrawi embarks on a...

    The reflection on the sand
  • 2023
    Al Nujum - The stars

    Al Nujum - The stars

    Al Nujum - The stars

    52023HD

    For over 40 years, the Sahrawi population, as refugees, has been waiting peacefully to return to their homeland after Morocco's illegal invasion of...

    Al Nujum - The stars
  • 2011
    Nollywood, Smara

    Nollywood, Smara

    Nollywood, Smara

    102011HD

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

    Nollywood, Smara
  • 2008
    A scream from Sahara

    A scream from Sahara

    A scream from Sahara

    02008HD

    Trapped between the violence of the Moroccan regime and the indifference of the international community, the Saharaui People fight peacefully in...

    A scream from Sahara
  • 2022
    Imminent danger

    Imminent danger

    Imminent danger

    02022HD

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

    Imminent danger
  • 2006
    Lives on pause

    Lives on pause

    Lives on pause

    02006HD

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

    Lives on pause
  • 1996
    The trunks of return

    The trunks of return

    The trunks of return

    101996HD

    Nayat, a young Sahrawi girl, fantasizes about seeing the waves of a sea she has never known in the desert dunes. She knows that her colonized country...

    The trunks of return
  • 2019
    Bubisher: art and fight

    Bubisher: art and fight

    Bubisher: art and fight

    02019HD

    Art and culture as a fight against injustice and oblivion. The Saharawi people, with creative processes, claim their right to the land from which...

    Bubisher: art and fight
  • 2009
    Magic Sahara

    Magic Sahara

    Magic Sahara

    02009HD

    The magic of life in the desert and that which takes place on a stage, the tricks that one has to learn in order to survive and those that bring a...

    Magic Sahara
  • 2010
    I am a Sahrawi woman

    I am a Sahrawi woman

    I am a Sahrawi woman

    02010HD

    This is the reality of women of the same nation who live divided by the wall that has separated them for 35 years now. Exiled Sahrawi women who live...

    I am a Sahrawi woman
  • 2018
    Diaspora in the Sahara

    Diaspora in the Sahara

    Diaspora in the Sahara

    02018HD

    Testimonies of a people enlisted on the path of independence. Records taken at refugee camps in Tindouf (Sahara Desert in southern Algeria) and Bir...

    Diaspora in the Sahara
  • 2010
    Nothing happens

    Nothing happens

    Nothing happens

    02010HD

    In the Sahrahwi refugee camp of Dajla, south of Algeria lives Mohamed Brahim Selma, also known as Belgha; Shepherd and poet of the Tiris region who...

    Nothing happens
  • 2005
    Drops in the desert

    Drops in the desert

    Drops in the desert

    02005HD

    A documentary which explains, through the experience of hosting a Sahrawi child for the summer, visiting the camps and speaking with teachers,...

    Drops in the desert
  • 2015
    Sumud

    Sumud

    Sumud

    02015HD

    In 1976 Spain abandoned its last colony, the Western Sahara, in the hands of Morocco. Since then, the Saharawi people have been divided between those...

    Sumud
  • 2016
    On leased land

    On leased land

    On leased land

    02016HD

    The testimony of several generations of Saharawi refugees, shows us the harshness of life in the inhospitable Algerian desert, after more than 40...

    On leased land
  • 2022
    State of rest

    State of rest

    State of rest

    02022HD

    Salka was born as a refugee in the Sahara desert, and grew up in Italy by chance: she was one of the so-called "Little Peace Ambassadors". Sahrawis...

    State of rest
  • 2008
    Belgha, the alive memory

    Belgha, the alive memory

    Belgha, the alive memory

    02008HD

    Selma Mohamed Brahim, known as Belgha, lives in the Dajla Saharaui refugee camp in Southern Algeria. He has dedicated his life to preserving the...

    Belgha, the alive memory
  • 2018
    I wait

    I wait

    I wait

    02018HD

    Is already 40 years since the saharawi population became refugee in Algeria because of the Moroccan occupation. While the POLISARIO government tries...

    I wait