Hamada

Journey to Saharawi – The Courage to Live for Freedom

In the stunning and starkly beautiful landscape of Western Sahara, Walter Bencini recounts his journey to meet the Saharawi people, uprooted from thei

2010

The voice of the martyrs

The film takes place in the Sahrawi refugee camps installed since 1975 near Tindouf, southwest Algeria. It takes us on a filmed investigation led by t

2020

Lost land

Straddling a 2,400-kilometer-long wall constructed by the Moroccan army, the Western Sahara is today divided into two sections — one occupied by Moroc

2011

The madman of the desert

This documentary tells the story of Tateh Lehbib, a Saharawi refugee who after studying Renewable Energy at the University of Algiers and then a maste

2018

Oasis

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 p

2017

The hidden fire

Silence always surrounds the mine, first when it explodes and then when it eternally haunts its victims. The history of the silence of this fire hidde

2023

Champs-Élysées

A boy has a dream of traveling to the world, especially to Paris where his uncle lives, but a wall built on his land divides his country and does not

2023

A garden that means more than a garden

Taleb, who came to a refugee camp at the age of five in 1975 and returned there after his studies abroad, tells of his life as a displaced person, his

2023

Desert rose

Through images and testimonies of Sahrawi women, this film introduces us to the situation and the living conditions the Sahrawi people have been subje

2004

Un viaje hacia nosotros

Spanish actor Pepe Viyuela embarks on a personal journey on the trail of his grandfather Gervasio, a soldier in the Republican Army during the Spanish

2021

Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony

The political upheaval in North Africa is responsibility of the Western powers —especially of the United States and France— due to the exercise of a f

2012

Sahara Marathon

This film offers a picture of the tense situation in which the Sahrawi people have lived for more than 30 years. The yearly celebration of a marathon

2004

February 27th

Documentary about refugees from Western Sahara living in Algeria.

2018

The runner

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 symbol

2013

Ali Salem, architect of resistance

Ali Salem Hamudi Mohamed - Yahdih, was born in 1955 in El Aaiún (Western Sahara). He completed his secondary schooling in the "Spanish" Sahara. A scho

2008

Crisis

In the middle of Western Sahara desert, where no water, no trees, no animals live but a bunch of refugees, struggling in poverty to survive the harsh

2019

The nomad garden

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

2022

Al Nujum - The stars

For over 40 years, the Sahrawi population, as refugees, has been waiting peacefully to return to their homeland after Morocco's illegal invasion of th

2023

Hammada

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 ho

2009

Sahrawi people

Documentary about the arduous early years of the Sahrawi cause (1977)

1977