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HAIYU: Rebel Singer Mariem Hassan and the Struggle for a Free Western Sahara (2024)
HAIYU interweaves Mariem Hassan’s music and her personal quest for her country’s independence with larger historical events dating back to the region’s Spanish colonisation, and subsequent occupation by Morocco.
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Battalion to my beat (2016)
Eager to escape a life of confinement in the refugee camps of Western Sahara in Algeria, Mariam flees into the desert to join the army, naively believing herself to be the Joan of Arc who will save her country from occupation.
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Sahrawi women in the occupied territories (2010)
Equipe Media presents a short film about the history and situation of Sahrawi women.
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Gdeim Izik's cry (2010)
This peaceful camp protested the hard living conditions under Moroccan occupation and in favour of Sahrawi self-determination. This documentary shows how the Moroccan military dissolved it by force.
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The white melpha (2010)
A white melfa (Sahrawi traditional dress) contains the written desires of a group of young Sahrawi women.
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Silent Sahara rising (2011)
"Once you demand any rights...you are immediately arrested", Ahmed, a graduate says. As elsewhere, the Internet has become a key tool for getting information out of the country, with films and news posted to the web, bypassing the Moroccan state's censorship. Many believe Morocco must react quickly if it is too avoid a serious split and potential civil war. The Kingdom has indicated it is ready to change. Whether that will include independence for Western Sahara is yet to be seen.
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Testimony of a martir (2012)
The story of the film is inspired by the reality of the suffering of the Sahrawi people under Moroccan occupation.
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Just to let you know that I'm alive (2013)
Enforced disappearances, torture, secret prisons, mass graves, no trial and no justice. The history of Western Sahara, the area south of Morocco with an as yet undefined political status, is marked by a dark sequence of human rights violations. And it’s still forgotten. The documentary tells the story of Sahrawi people through the voices of special women who’ve been victims of violence, both in Western Sahara and in the refugee camps in Algeria. Through their testimonies, diaries and old photographs, the movie reconstructs the history of Western Sahara from a female and intimate point of view.
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Chabiba (2013)
In Hassaniya, the mother tongue of the Sahrawi people "Chabiba" means youth. In the Sahrawi tradition conversations, revolves around a good tea. According to the usual three Sahrawi teas.El take first tea is bitter as life, the history, the life of this people is bitter, because they were first colonized, abandoned, busy and eventually went to war with a neighboring country. The second sweet tea like love, the sweetest part of this conflict is the international status because all international law states that the solution to the conflict goes through a referendum. The third area is soft as death, remained behind war, armed struggle, we are in a part of the struggle of the people much smoother, as the third tea.
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A divided homeland (2013)
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 Sahrawi people are divided by a wall of more than 2000 km in length. This Moroccan wall is not only a defensive position for the occupying power, but it is also an obstacle for the cultural and social development of the original population, and also a wall of emotions and disappointments. The story of Ahmed Tarfi, despite being fictional, could very well be the story of thousands of young Sahrawis.
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L'Aarifa (2014)
L'Aarifa is the name given to a post within the political structure of the Polisario. In the Sahrawi refugee camps this post is held by women who, at the same time, have carried great weight in the conflict. Shown in this short film is the problem that confronts one of these women in between family and work.
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War of peace (2016)
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 Moroccan authorities push them to risk their lives and leave their homeland on flimsy boats to flee from a life of repression, fulfilling Morocco's goal of emptying the territory of youth, who are the foundations of society.
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Time zero. What to expect when waiting in the Sahara? (2016)
The documentary reflects the voices and photographic looks Saharawi women because they are the protagonists of this project allows us to see between the lines injustices and gaps in a decadent international system and little bit attached to reality, however, they are also women who with their example remind us that even in the injustices, despair and deprivation there is hope and dreams do not end.
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Portrait (2016)
28-year-old Azman, a student in the film school Abidin Kaid Saleh, explains how he discovered film in the Sahrawi refugee camps, the difficulties he had explaining his choice of study to his family, and how his society views this career.
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Jadijetu's journey (2020)
The narrative of resistance of Sahrawi poet Jadijetu Alaÿat flows against the background of raveling images from an unknown land.
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Toufa (2020)
Toufa recreates the beginnings of the Sahrawi population’s arrival in the Hamada’s arid desert. This short film tells of the suffering of three generations of Saharan women, who through their effort and sacrifice wounds of the war were healed upon their arrival in the inhospitable territory of this part of southern Algeria.
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The year of the balls (2020)
The Year of Balls tells about part of the colonial history in Western Sahara from the perspective of the Saharawi nomads, and the systemic transformation of the Saharawi community, the history of violence, and the loss of valuable knowledge and practices. Sulaiman Labat narrates the events and what he witnessed, the nomads didn’t know about bombs or planes, when they saw the bombs, they called them balls.
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The price of beauty (2020)
This short film denounces the standards of beauty which Sahrawi women are subjected to, who use whitening products to lighten their skin, ignoring the risks that they may later incur.
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Free Sultana (2021)
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 court order. During this time, the Moroccan paramilitaries have destroyed her house, stoned, assaulted, raped, poisoned the Jaya sisters.
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Desert strawberries (2021)
Sahrawi artist and visual poet Mohamed Sleiman Labat follows the story of the emerging phenomenon of small scale family gardens in his local community in the Hamada Desert. The film features the story of four families in Samara Camp with small scale gardens, their practices and the knowledge they develop as part of their practices in the garden. The camps are located in a very harsh environment with extreme climate conditions, and the Sahrawi are still dependent on international food aid.
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Imminent danger (2022)
This short film addresses the problems surrounding the appearance of narcotics in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf. These drugs are beginning to be sold in kiosks and areas close to schools, causing addictions to chemical substances among the youth.
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The nomad garden (2022)
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 places on Earth, overcoming challenges like the lack of water, extreme temperatures and a barren soil.
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Daniela, the value of perseverance (2017)
The strength and will of a girl with physical difficulties in Sahrawi society.
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Bidun Hawiya (2017)
Bidun Hawiya is a documentary short film that intends to make society reflect on the Sahrawi people’s loss of identity, as they are forced to obtain a document in order to have access to certain essential rights. Not only does the Spanish government make the entry of a population that used to be Spanish very difficult, but it also intends to use these peoples’ identity to bury a situation that has been uncomfortable for them for 41 years, thus solving a problem that won’t be fixed until it has disappeared.
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Searching for Ostrich Man Haddara (2018)
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 and with them lived with them until he was found and returned to society. It became a folk tale of oral transmission until it was written by different authors. The documentary goes through looking for what's really and what's about legend.
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My society (2018)
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, and how they are forever haunted by the personal trauma of these events.
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Bou Craa (2019)
Bou Craa is an investigative short documentary about the plundering of the natural resources of Western Sahara. Nushatta's Reporters At Risk For Sharing the Truth have been able to sneak into the Boo Craa phosphate mine, south-east of the main city of El-Aaiùn, occupied Western Sahara, accompanied with Saharawis from Bou Craa town who explained them Morocco's speedy policy of looting the natural resources, as well as the lack of benefits from the profits being made on their territory.
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Land of mines (2019)
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 ruminants and explosives. There are about 7 to 10 million landmines still buried there, especially in the area close to the wall built by Morocco and which separates Western Sahara into two. Landmines in the area have a huge impact on life in general; human casualties, cattle and irreversible environmental catastrophes.
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DEHBA (2009)
Reflects the daily life of a child in a Sahrawi school
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Letter (2009)
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 Special Envoy for Western Sahara appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations when he is visiting the area. But various circumstances and obstacles make it impossible to hand over the letter. However, the girl still hopes that the letter will one day reach its destination and receive an answer.
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The women of the tents (2008)
A group of Sahrawi women come together and explain how traditional "jaimas" (tents) are set up.
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Blackmailed (2018)
Blackmailed is love and drama nollywood African movie starring Francis duru,Queeneth Agbor,Ebube nwagbo.


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