Occupied Territories Movies

  • 2015
    Mission: Sahara

    Mission: Sahara

    Mission: Sahara

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    On 1976 twenty thousand Spaniards left the last European colony in Africa, and thousands of Saharawi’s are abandoned to their fate. Forty years...

    Mission: Sahara
  • 2011
    Lost land

    Lost land

    Lost land

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

    Lost land
  • 2007
    Tebraa, portraits of Sahrawi women

    Tebraa, portraits of Sahrawi women

    Tebraa, portraits of Sahrawi women

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    Tebraa is the song of the women of the Sahara desert. Songs of love or lamentation that they sing when they are alone. This collective documentary...

    Tebraa, portraits of Sahrawi women
  • 2009
    The Problem: Testimony of the Sahrawi people

    The Problem: Testimony of the Sahrawi people

    The Problem: Testimony of the Sahrawi people

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    Morocco doesn’t want you to know what’s happening in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara. The Saharawi people live under...

    The Problem: Testimony of the Sahrawi people
  • 2011
    Gdeim Izik, the Sahrawi's resistance camp

    Gdeim Izik, the Sahrawi's resistance camp

    Gdeim Izik, the Sahrawi's resistance camp

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    abel and Antonio are human rights activists. They were awoke by the loud noise of sirens and the roar of thousands of screamings. They picked what...

    Gdeim Izik, the Sahrawi's resistance camp
  • 2020
    Jadijetu's journey

    Jadijetu's journey

    Jadijetu's journey

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

    Jadijetu's journey
  • 2024
    Desert PHOSfate

    Desert PHOSfate

    Desert PHOSfate

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    DESERT PHOSfate is an artist film that tells about the impact of phosphate on the Sahrawi community and its fate, including the surprising emergence...

    Desert PHOSfate
  • 2016
    Tell them I exist

    Tell them I exist

    Tell them I exist

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    Tell them I exist paints the portraits of Naâma Asfari, a Sahrawi jurist and pro-independence activist sentenced to 30 years detention in...

    Tell them I exist
  • 2014
    Gurba, the condemned

    Gurba, the condemned

    Gurba, the condemned

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    Siya, Dumaha, Mata and Aziz are Saharawi refugees that live in camps in Tindouf (Algeria). They show us the daily extreme harshness of an exile that...

    Gurba, the condemned
  • 2017
    Skeikima

    Skeikima

    Skeikima

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    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
  • 2017
    Soukeina, 4400 days of night

    Soukeina, 4400 days of night

    Soukeina, 4400 days of night

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    After the military occupation of Western Sahara in 1976, Moroccan government attacked the civil population with hard repression, forcing hundreds of...

    Soukeina, 4400 days of night
  • 2016
    News from Laayoune

    News from Laayoune

    News from Laayoune

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    The film follows a couple of young boys in the Saharian refugee camp „February 27“ located in the bleak desert area of southwestern...

    News from Laayoune
  • 2007
    Children of the clouds

    Children of the clouds

    Children of the clouds

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    In May 2005, after 30 years of Moroccan occupation, Saharawi students initiated a series of peaceful demonstrations demanding their right to the...

    Children of the clouds
  • 2022
    Money, Freedom, a Story of CFA Franc

    Money, Freedom, a Story of CFA Franc

    Money, Freedom, a Story of CFA Franc

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    The former French colonies in Central and West Africa have been independent since 1960, but most of these countries still use the currency of the...

    Money, Freedom, a Story of CFA Franc
  • 2016
    War of peace

    War of peace

    War of peace

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    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
  • 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

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    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
  • 2016
    Rofles or graffiti: the non-violent fight of the Sahrawi people

    Rofles or graffiti: the non-violent fight of the Sahrawi people

    Rofles or graffiti: the non-violent fight of the Sahrawi people

    02016HD

    Many Saharawis are claiming to return to war in order to break the impasse of wainting during 40 years. However, the Sahrawi nonviolent activists...

    Rofles or graffiti: the non-violent fight of the Sahrawi people
  • 2021
    You can't get there from here

    You can't get there from here

    You can't get there from here

    02021HD

    An international team of 4 friends undertake the Plymouth to Dakar Challenge a ‘banger rally’ which annually shadows the route of the...

    You can't get there from here
  • 2020
    Amaidan Salah: the Saharawi marathon

    Amaidan Salah: the Saharawi marathon

    Amaidan Salah: the Saharawi marathon

    02020HD

    A documentary about the situation of the saharawi people in the refugee camps of Tindouf through the life and participation in the 2019 Sahara...

    Amaidan Salah: the Saharawi marathon
  • 2016
    Sirocco: Winds of resistance

    Sirocco: Winds of resistance

    Sirocco: Winds of resistance

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    Drawing from the inspiration of their grandmothers, singer Aziza Brahim and activist Senia Abderhaman wrestle for the independence of their people...

    Sirocco: Winds of resistance