Western Sahara Movies

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

Bidun Hawiya is a documentary short film that intends to make society reflect on the Sahrawi people’s loss of identity, as they are forced to...

Toufa recreates the beginnings of the Sahrawi population’s arrival in the Hamada’s arid desert. This short film tells of the suffering of...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

This short film addresses the problems surrounding the appearance of narcotics in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf. These drugs are beginning to...

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

A video activist group is struggling to keep their cameras in the occupied Western Sahara where the Moroccan authorities have managed to implement a...

Western Sahara is one of the most heavily mined territories in the world following decades of conflict with its neighbours. Despite a 1991 ceasefire,...

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...

This documentary illustrates the story of Gdeim Izik through the voices of the Sahrawis themselves, giving personal accounts of how the camp was...

A white melfa (Sahrawi traditional dress) contains the written desires of a group of young Sahrawi women.

Equipe Media presents a short film about the history and situation of Sahrawi women.

The documentary reflects the voices and photographic looks Saharawi women because they are the protagonists of this project allows us to see between...

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,...

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

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...

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...