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
  • 2018
    Prince on Fire 1

    Prince on Fire 1

    Prince on Fire 1

    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 1
  • 2020
    The year of the balls

    The year of the balls

    The year of the balls

    02020HD

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

    The year of the balls
  • 2014
    Legna

    Legna

    Legna

    82014HD

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

    Legna
  • 2018
    A gap in the wall

    A gap in the wall

    A gap in the wall

    02018HD

    "A woman about to give birth. A nurse who skips an unfair order. A worker who claims his rights. A child who begins to discover the society in which...

    A gap in the wall
  • 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
  • 2009
    Letter

    Letter

    Letter

    02009HD

    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...

    Letter
  • 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
  • 2013
    Just to let you know that I'm alive

    Just to let you know that I'm alive

    Just to let you know that I'm alive

    02013HD

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

    Just to let you know that I'm alive
  • 2017
    Daniela, the value of perseverance

    Daniela, the value of perseverance

    Daniela, the value of perseverance

    02017HD

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

    Daniela, the value of perseverance
  • 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
  • 2020
    Jadijetu's journey

    Jadijetu's journey

    Jadijetu's journey

    02020HD

    The narrative of resistance of Sahrawi poet Jadijetu Alaÿat flows against the background of raveling images from an unknown land.

    Jadijetu's journey
  • 2017
    Western Sahara determined

    Western Sahara determined

    Western Sahara determined

    02017HD

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

    Western Sahara determined
  • 2009
    DEHBA

    DEHBA

    DEHBA

    02009HD

    Reflects the daily life of a child in a Sahrawi school

    DEHBA
  • 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
    Oasis

    Oasis

    Oasis

    02017HD

    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
  • 2020
    Sahrawi, welcome

    Sahrawi, welcome

    Sahrawi, welcome

    02020HD

    "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...

    Sahrawi, welcome
  • 2019
    Atil

    Atil

    Atil

    02019HD

    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...

    Atil
  • 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
  • 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