Western Sahara Movies

  • 2022
    The nomad garden

    The nomad garden

    The nomad garden

    02022HD

    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 nomad garden
  • 2017
    3 Stolen Cameras

    3 Stolen Cameras

    3 Stolen Cameras

    02017HD

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

    3 Stolen Cameras
  • 2008
    Belgha, the alive memory

    Belgha, the alive memory

    Belgha, the alive memory

    02008HD

    Selma Mohamed Brahim, known as Belgha, lives in the Dajla Saharaui refugee camp in Southern Algeria. He has dedicated his life to preserving the...

    Belgha, the alive memory
  • 2014
    Roots and clamor

    Roots and clamor

    Roots and clamor

    02014HD

    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...

    Roots and clamor
  • 2019
    Waiting for the UN

    Waiting for the UN

    Waiting for the UN

    02019HD

    Waiting for the UN is a poetic documentary about life in the desert, literally and figuratively. We follow the everyday life of a Saharawi family...

    Waiting for the UN
  • 2017
    Skeikima

    Skeikima

    Skeikima

    02017HD

    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...

    Skeikima
  • 2019
    They're just fish

    They're just fish

    They're just fish

    02019HD

    Teslem, Dehba and Jadija work in a fish farm in the Saharawi refugee camps. Where? In Algeria, in the middle of the desert, far away from their land....

    They're just fish
  • 2021
    Desert strawberries

    Desert strawberries

    Desert strawberries

    02021HD

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

    Desert strawberries
  • 2019
    Land of mines

    Land of mines

    Land of mines

    02019HD

    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...

    Land of mines
  • 2013
    Chabiba

    Chabiba

    Chabiba

    02013HD

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

    Chabiba
  • 2013
    A divided homeland

    A divided homeland

    A divided homeland

    02013HD

    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
    War of peace

    War of peace

    War of peace

    02016HD

    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...

    War of peace
  • 2011
    Silent Sahara rising

    Silent Sahara rising

    Silent Sahara rising

    02011HD

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

    Silent Sahara rising
  • 2018
    Prince on Fire 2

    Prince on Fire 2

    Prince on Fire 2

    02018HD

    Moments after the king and his son has had a joyful chat about the previous day’s official ceremony of introducing to the kingdom its heir...

    Prince on Fire 2
  • 2020
    The price of beauty

    The price of beauty

    The price of beauty

    02020HD

    This short film denounces the standards of beauty which Sahrawi women are subjected to, who use whitening products to lighten their skin, ignoring...

    The price of beauty
  • 2019
    Bou Craa

    Bou Craa

    Bou Craa

    02019HD

    Bou Craa is an investigative short documentary about the plundering of the natural resources of Western Sahara. Nushatta's Reporters At Risk For...

    Bou Craa
  • 2012
    Testimony of a martir

    Testimony of a martir

    Testimony of a martir

    02012HD

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

    Testimony of a martir
  • 2026
    Between Us and the World

    Between Us and the World

    Between Us and the World

    02026HD

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

    Between Us and the World
  • 2009
    Thaidina, music in the desert

    Thaidina, music in the desert

    Thaidina, music in the desert

    02009HD

    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,...

    Thaidina, music in the desert
  • 2018
    I wait

    I wait

    I wait

    02018HD

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

    I wait