Movies: Sahrawi refugee camps

"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 pay attention of small groups of friends who spontaneously comes to camera to tell what are their conce...

This documentary explains the problems of Western Sahara while occupied by Morocco, the territories liberated by the Polisario Front, and the refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria). 40 years of human rights violations, cultural, human and economic despol...

Médicos del Mundo Sahara presents the "Hunna Raquizat Alhayat" campaign that tells the stories of 17 Saharawi refugee women with different specialties and responsibilities within the field of health. This campaign arises from the need to value their ...

Ali Salem Hamudi Mohamed - Yahdih, was born in 1955 in El Aaiún (Western Sahara). He completed his secondary schooling in the "Spanish" Sahara. A scholarship allowed him to enrol at the Universidad de la Peninsula in 1975, but Morocco's invasion of t...

My Sahrawi family' is a report - documentary that reflects the bonds of unity between Sahrawi families and Spanish families who every summer welcome minors from refugee camps into their homes....

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. Through the her family life, teachers, those responsible for Sahrawi education and NGOS, we understand the...

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 seconds of images and voices are heard from exile; voices that are not silent under occupation; that sp...

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

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 who stayed on their land and those who fled the Moroccan persecution. Those who escaped survive in t...

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 me....

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 places on Earth, overcoming challenges like the lack of water, extreme temperatures and a barren soi...

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 allow him to travel or cross to the other side of his land....

The strength and will of a girl with physical difficulties in Sahrawi society....

A local film whose message is not political, but social. It's about sexual violence and society's vision of rape victims, who are scarred for life, and how they are forever haunted by the personal trauma of these events....

Atil, a documentary on the life of the Saharawis in the Tindouf refugee camps in Algeria. In the camps there are no limits, since creativity and innovation give rise to ideas that succeed in changing the world. As a result, this documentary presents ...

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 habitat, the least of the problem one might face is the environmental crisis....

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 Special Envoy for Western Sahara appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations when he is ...

This documentary shows the torments and comrade disappearance ocurrences in the Moroccan Occupied Western Sahara through the eyes of Yahia, a young Sahrawi person living in Barcelona. It tells of the the precarious living conditions in the Algerian r...

Selma Mohamed Brahim, known as Belgha, lives in the Dajla Saharaui refugee camp in Southern Algeria. He has dedicated his life to preserving the Saharaui culture and identity, because he knows that a nation without culture is a lost nation, and he is...

A documentary which explains, through the experience of hosting a Sahrawi child for the summer, visiting the camps and speaking with teachers, politicians and doctors… the story of the Sahrawi people and the reasons behind the conflict. People from d...