Western Sahara Movies

The story of the film is inspired by the reality of the suffering of the Sahrawi people under Moroccan occupation.

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

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

Atil, a documentary on the life of the Saharawis in the Tindouf refugee camps in Algeria. In the camps there are no limits, since creativity and...

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

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,...

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

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...

"Legna: speak the Saharawi verse" is an audiovisual poetry story that traces the essential elements of the Saharawi culture, chaining the verses...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

"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...

Reflects the daily life of a child in a Sahrawi school

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

The film situates the viewer within a makeshift space of an animal market in Algeria. Drifting between feeding and waiting, one attunes to the bodies...

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.