Western Sahara Movies
- 2009

Thaidina, music in the desert
Thaidina, music in the desert02009HD
A documentary that shows the current state of territorial limbo in which the Sahrawi people live through the gaze of those who arrive and leave,...
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- 2014

Roots and clamor
Roots and clamor02014HD
Their desert was not the same since they last saw it. The dunes kept memories of a childhood bathed in sun and sand, when minutes passed by in a...
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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

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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- 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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- 2013

Chabiba
Chabiba02013HD
In Hassaniya, the mother tongue of the Sahrawi people "Chabiba" means youth. In the Sahrawi tradition conversations, revolves around a good tea....
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- 2011

Silent Sahara rising
Silent Sahara rising02011HD
"Once you demand any rights...you are immediately arrested", Ahmed, a graduate says. As elsewhere, the Internet has become a key tool for getting...
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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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- 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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- 2018

I wait
I wait02018HD
Is already 40 years since the saharawi population became refugee in Algeria because of the Moroccan occupation. While the POLISARIO government tries...
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- 2017

Barber shop
Barber shop02017HD
In Smara refugee camp, barber Mohammed treats customers of different generations.
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- 2012

Testimony of a martir
Testimony of a martir02012HD
The story of the film is inspired by the reality of the suffering of the Sahrawi people under Moroccan occupation.
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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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- 2023

A refuge in the stars
A refuge in the stars02023HD
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...
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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

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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- 2008

The women of the tents
The women of the tents02008HD
A group of Sahrawi women come together and explain how traditional "jaimas" (tents) are set up.
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