Movies: Sahrawi refugee camps

  • 2015
    I'm tiny

    I'm tiny (2015)

    I'm tiny

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    As I´m tiny, the night seems to dark to me, so I swicht on the light in case the wardrobe monster is scared....

    I'm tiny
  • 2020
    Three territories: a landscape, a nation, a right

    Three territories: a landscape, a nation, a right (2020)

    Three territories: a landscape, a nation, a right

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    Documentary that explains the current climate of political turmoil in the north of Africa caused by the embedded problem of the decolonization of Western Sahara. A region on the brink of war. The responsibility of Western governments and social media...

    Three territories: a landscape, a nation, a right
  • 2020
    The wall, the Sahrawi wound

    The wall, the Sahrawi wound (2020)

    The wall, the Sahrawi wound

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    Ahmed lost a leg because of a landmine. Fatimetu works as a deminer. Mohamed tells the story of the wall that divides his country, Western Sahara. Kadija would like to come back to her occupied city, but she no longer hope it....

    The wall, the Sahrawi wound
  • 2020
    LALGAM - portraits of survival

    LALGAM - portraits of survival (2020)

    LALGAM - portraits of survival

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    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
  • 2021
    Desert strawberries

    Desert strawberries (2021)

    Desert strawberries

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    Sahrawi artist and visual poet Mohamed Sleiman Labat follows the story of the emerging phenomenon of small scale family gardens in his local community in the Hamada Desert. The film features the story of four families in Samara Camp with small scale ...

    Desert strawberries
  • 2022
    State of rest

    State of rest (2022)

    State of rest

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    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 have been sending to Europe their children for decades, to show the world the injustice they suffer. A...

    State of rest
  • 2022
    Imminent danger

    Imminent danger (2022)

    Imminent danger

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    This short film addresses the problems surrounding the appearance of narcotics in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf. These drugs are beginning to be sold in kiosks and areas close to schools, causing addictions to chemical substances among the you...

    Imminent danger
  • 2023
    A refuge in the stars

    A refuge in the stars (2023)

    A refuge in the stars

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    The Sahara desert occupies a third of the African continent and is one of the most inhospitable regions on the planet. The region is dry enough to mummify corpses and kill bacteria. For centuries, the Sahrawis have lived under these extreme condition...

    A refuge in the stars
  • 2025
    The reflection on the sand

    The reflection on the sand (2025)

    The reflection on the sand

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    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 mental journey to his last visit to the camps. The places, the rituals, the history, and the time mak...

    The reflection on the sand
  • 2017
    Barber shop

    Barber shop (2017)

    Barber shop

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    In Smara refugee camp, barber Mohammed treats customers of different generations....

    Barber shop
  • 2018
    The madman of the desert

    The madman of the desert (2018)

    The madman of the desert

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    This documentary tells the story of Tateh Lehbib, a Saharawi refugee who after studying Renewable Energy at the University of Algiers and then a master's degree in energy efficiency at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, has designed a type...

    The madman of the desert
  • 2017
    Brothers in art

    Brothers in art (2017)

    Brothers in art

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    From the Sahrawi refugee camps of Tindouf (Algeria) to Tifariti (freed territories of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic), we embark hand in hand on an adventure with a group of artists from all around the World. Each one has their own story, exper...

    Brothers in art
  • 2018
    I wait

    I wait (2018)

    I wait

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    Is already 40 years since the saharawi population became refugee in Algeria because of the Moroccan occupation. While the POLISARIO government tries out to solve the conflict with institutional help, saharawi youngsters advocate for the option of an ...

    I wait
  • 2019
    Waiting for the UN

    Waiting for the UN (2019)

    Waiting for the UN

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    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 from occupied Western Sahara, who have lived ”temporary” in a refugee camp in Algeria for over 40 years....

    Waiting for the UN
  • 2009
    Magic Sahara

    Magic Sahara (2009)

    Magic Sahara

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    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 smile to your face. Two worlds that you find behind a clown’s nose and 1500 excited children....

    Magic Sahara
  • 2006
    Sahara Project: From Sant Coloma to Dajla

    Sahara Project: From Sant Coloma to Dajla (2006)

    Sahara Project: From Sant Coloma to Dajla

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    This film presents, through the eyes four students - Gemma, Colo, Cristian and Mireia - their experience of the trip, the feelings that moved them, the work carried out in the camps and, above all, their contribution to raising awareness of the unres...

    Sahara Project: From Sant Coloma to Dajla
  • 2006
    The world through their eyes

    The world through their eyes (2006)

    The world through their eyes

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    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 self-portait of refugee families who have lived in the desert for 30 years....

    The world through their eyes
  • 2006
    Lives on pause

    Lives on pause (2006)

    Lives on pause

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    Every year, approximately 800 Sahrawi boys and girls leave the refugee camps to study in Cuba, Algeria and Libya… 15 years later, they return biologists, doctors, engineers… but when they get back to the refugee camps all they have is the desert…...

    Lives on pause
  • 2009
    Hammada

    Hammada (2009)

    Hammada

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    Dadah, a Sahrawi boy living in the Dakhla refugee camp, knows nothing beyond life in the desert, the sand-filled air, the ever-present dunes on the horizon, school, games, the sullen world of the conversations that adults have while they make tea… Th...

    Hammada
  • 2014
    Coría and the sea

    Coría and the sea (2014)

    Coría and the sea

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    This is a story about women who are fighters, tenacious, hopeful, active women…who were capable of lifting, from nothingness, in the harshest landscape of the world, life. They are the Sahrawi women. 40 years ago, they were forced into exile; the men...

    Coría and the sea