Western Sahara Movies

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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

Enforced disappearances, torture, secret prisons, mass graves, no trial and no justice. The history of Western Sahara, the area south of Morocco with...

In Hassaniya, the mother tongue of the Sahrawi people "Chabiba" means youth. In the Sahrawi tradition conversations, revolves around a good tea....

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...

Yauguiha Mohamed Embarec, a young Sahrawi refugee, leads a team clearing landmines along the military barrier that divides Western Sahara. The...

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...

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...

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

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...

Reflects the daily life of a child in a Sahrawi school

"Once you demand any rights...you are immediately arrested", Ahmed, a graduate says. As elsewhere, the Internet has become a key tool for getting...

"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...

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