Western Sahara Movies
- 2022

The nomad garden
The nomad garden02022HD
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...
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- 2017

3 Stolen Cameras
3 Stolen Cameras02017HD
A video activist group is struggling to keep their cameras in the occupied Western Sahara where the Moroccan authorities have managed to implement a...
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- 2008

Belgha, the alive memory
Belgha, the alive memory02008HD
Selma Mohamed Brahim, known as Belgha, lives in the Dajla Saharaui refugee camp in Southern Algeria. He has dedicated his life to preserving the...
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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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- 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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- 2017

Skeikima
Skeikima02017HD
How would you claim your identity in a hostile land? How could you live under harassment and repression? How would you make your voice break through...
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- 2019

They're just fish
They're just fish02019HD
Teslem, Dehba and Jadija work in a fish farm in the Saharawi refugee camps. Where? In Algeria, in the middle of the desert, far away from their land....
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- 2021

Desert strawberries
Desert strawberries02021HD
Sahrawi artist and visual poet Mohamed Sleiman Labat follows the story of the emerging phenomenon of small scale family gardens in his local...
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- 2019

Land of mines
Land of mines02019HD
Western Sahara is a conflict region located in North West Africa. After a bloody war in the region, the land is littered with landmines and war...
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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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- 2013

A divided homeland
A divided homeland02013HD
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...
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- 2016

War of peace
War of peace02016HD
This film is about the suffering of Sahrawi youth in the occupied Western Sahara. It tells the tragic story of their lives under occupation, and how...
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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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- 2018

Prince on Fire 2
Prince on Fire 202018HD
Moments after the king and his son has had a joyful chat about the previous day’s official ceremony of introducing to the kingdom its heir...
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- 2020

The price of beauty
The price of beauty02020HD
This short film denounces the standards of beauty which Sahrawi women are subjected to, who use whitening products to lighten their skin, ignoring...
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- 2019

Bou Craa
Bou Craa02019HD
Bou Craa is an investigative short documentary about the plundering of the natural resources of Western Sahara. Nushatta's Reporters At Risk For...
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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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- 2026

Between Us and the World
Between Us and the World02026HD
European archival footage from the 1950s documents the life of indigenous, nomadic Sahrawi children and youth in Western Sahara / Morocco. Seventy...
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- 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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- 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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