Western Sahara Movies

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 strength and will of a girl with physical difficulties in Sahrawi society.

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

Dadah, a Sahrawi boy living in the Dakhla refugee camp, knows nothing beyond life in the desert, the sand-filled air, the ever-present dunes on the...

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

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...

The Runner is a film about endurance. It is the story of a champion long-distance runner whose journey transformed him from an athlete into the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The documentary #FreeSultana, tells the story of a Sahrawi activist who has been under house arrest for a year with her entire family, without a...

The Year of Balls tells about part of the colonial history in Western Sahara from the perspective of the Saharawi nomads, and the systemic...

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

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...