Sahrawi Refugee Camps Movies

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

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

The filmmaker presents the living conditions of the Sahrawi people who survive in refugee camps in the middle of the desert. These series of animated...

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...

This is the story of Buyema Abdelfatan, also known as Castro, an ex Saharan soldier that now a days runs a centre for disabled children in the...

The Sahrawi women relate their exil, the tortures, their memories and the difficulties of life as refugees. They are beautiful, touching... Educated...

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...

Tuizza is the story of the Sahrawi women, who through their effort, have made one of the most inhospitable places in the planet, habitable.

The story of young Ahmed Tarfi might as well be the story of the Sahrawi people’s difficulties, and particularly those of the youth. The...

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

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...

In the most inhospitable terrain of the legendary Saharan desert, lies the refugee camps of the Sahrawi Arab Republic. It is there that 5 young...

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...

Looking at the situation of the Sahrawi people in 1999, the documentary examines different aspects of institutions and organisation methods from the...

Embarka, Sahrawi girl, born in a world that wasn't her world.

Short film filmed in February 2010 at the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria). A poetic look into the situation that refugees go through and...

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

From a chronological perspective, “Saharauis, entre la ocupación y el exilio” (2010) explains the origins and key points of the...

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...

OASIS, a documentary that tells us about water's historical role in Western Sahara via the true stories of people who turned this wild desert into a...