Western Sahara Movies

  • 2011
    Gdeim Izik: catalyst of the Arab Spring

    Gdeim Izik: catalyst of the Arab Spring

    Gdeim Izik: catalyst of the Arab Spring

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

    Gdeim Izik: catalyst of the Arab Spring
  • 2017
    Oasis

    Oasis

    Oasis

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    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...

    Oasis
  • 2013
    A divided homeland

    A divided homeland

    A divided homeland

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    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...

    A divided homeland
  • 2016
    Portrait

    Portrait

    Portrait

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    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...

    Portrait
  • 2008
    The women of the tents

    The women of the tents

    The women of the tents

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

    The women of the tents
  • 2010
    The white melpha

    The white melpha

    The white melpha

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

    The white melpha
  • 2014
    A message to Obama

    A message to Obama

    A message to Obama

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    "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...

    A message to Obama
  • 2010
    Gdeim Izik's cry

    Gdeim Izik's cry

    Gdeim Izik's cry

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    This peaceful camp protested the hard living conditions under Moroccan occupation and in favour of Sahrawi self-determination. This documentary shows...

    Gdeim Izik's cry
  • 2018
    Searching for Ostrich Man Haddara

    Searching for Ostrich Man Haddara

    Searching for Ostrich Man Haddara

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    Documentary that delvs into the legend of Haddara, a Saharawi child who after getting lost in a sandstorm in the desert was adopted by the ostriches...

    Searching for Ostrich Man Haddara
  • 2014
    Legna

    Legna

    Legna

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

    Legna
  • 2020
    Searching for Tirfas

    Searching for Tirfas

    Searching for Tirfas

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    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...

    Searching for Tirfas