Sahara Occidental, Western Sahara
film et documentaire portant sur le Sahara Occidental, movies and documentary on Western Sahara
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- DirectorÁlvaro LongoriaStarsJavier BardemElena AnayaCarlos BardemA look at how colonization of the Western Sahara has left nearly 200,000 people living in refugee camps.
- DirectorSaeed Taji FaroukyStarsSalah Hmatou AmeidanThe 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 of a national liberation movement. Salah Hmatou Ameidan is willing to risk his life, his career, his family and his nationality to run for a country that doesn't exist. He is from Western Sahara, officially Africa's last colony and under Moroccan occupation since 1975. 30 year old Salah grew up under Moroccan occupation in Western Sahara. He is a Sahrawi, a native of the area. By 14 he was recognised as a talented athlete and was forced to join Morocco's junior athletics team, under threats to his family. By 1999 he was the triple cross-country champion for Morocco, had won 2nd place in the Africa Championships and was two-time Arab World Champion. In 2003, during a race in France, he took a risk from which he and his family have never recovered. As he approached the end of an 8km race in first place, he pulled out a Sahrawi flag - illegal in Morocco and a symbol of the independence movement - and waved it across the finish line. Knowing he could never return to Morocco safely, he immediately sought political asylum in France and has been there ever since. He was offered citizenship by France and Spain, but refused both, saying he would never run under any flag but that of a liberated Western Sahara. Salah insists, whenever possible, on representing the Western Sahara in competition. Today, he is not only one of the highest profile Sahrawi activists in the world, but is seen by his people as a hero, a symbol, an ambassador and a spokesman for the Western Sahara liberation movement. "Running is part of my resistance. It's the only weapon I have." Salah has paid heavily for his activism. When still in Morocco, his family home was repeatedly raided. He was blindfolded, taken to prison, interrogated and tortured. Since moving to France, he has been attacked four times by people opposed to his campaigning. Three members of his family have been imprisoned for non-violent resistance in Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara, and his uncle was recently killed by Moroccan police under suspicious circumstances. He has no citizenship, and because he is too controversial for major sponsors, he survives on race winnings and the support of charities. The Runner follows Salah during two critical years of the "Arab Spring", and examines what drives him to take immense risks, and make huge sacrifices, for a cause that is virtually unknown. The film looks at the burden of being a hero and asks "how long, before you stop running"?
- DirectorDominic BrownAn undercover documentary film produced and directed by British filmmaker Dominic Brown, about the struggle of the indigenous Sahrawi people of Western Sahara. The documentary covers the current human rights and political situation of the Sahrawi. There are several interviews recorded with human rights victims including an elderly lady who had been attacked in her home the previous day by Moroccan security forces. There is also a focus given to the alleged vested interests of countries in the region, particularly France. The film states that the French Government's close relationship with Morocco, their trade deals and their use of veto over the terms of the UN mission in Western Sahara are major factors.
- DirectorPedro Pérez RosadoStarsAziza BrahimMemona MohamedNadhira MohamedFatimetu, a Sahrawi refugee, returns to her home camp after 16 years. She must choose between life in the desert and her family and friends in Spain, her brother's expectations for her and her new job driving items between camps.
- DirectorIara LeeForty years after its people were promised freedom by departing Spanish rulers, Western Sahara remains Africa's last colony. This film chronicles the everyday violence experienced by Sahrawis living under Moroccan occupation and voices the aspirations of a desert people for whom the era of colonialist never ended.
- DirectorBecky Roberts-WolfeStarsNajla Mohamed LaminAgaila Mahjub BachirTwo women of different generations struggle for survival, happiness, and freedom in barren desert refugee camps. Here, the displaced people of Western Sahara have rebuilt life after fleeing from Morocco's brutal occupation from their homeland, and continue to cry out for justice. Najla and Agaila's different relationships to their cause reflect their personal narratives, revealed and explored with an intimate approach.
- DirectorGisèle KirjnerThe story of a few Saharawi women who fled their country, Western Sahara, under Moroccan bombardment fifteen years ago, to take refuge in the Algerian desert.
- DirectorCarlos GonzálezStarsBob EllisPhilippe MoraThis is the true story of Fetim Salam, a Saharawi refugee falsely portrayed as a slave in the Australian documentary 'Stolen'. Australian filmmakers, Violeta Ayala and Daniel Fallshaw, travel to the Saharawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria in 2007 and claim to discover 20,000 slaves in the camps run by the independence movement Polisario Front. Refugees are outraged for being portrayed as slaves, and humanitarian aid workers are incredulous about these allegations as they know the camps intimately. Filmmaker Carlos Gonzalez retraces their steps in search of the truth and finds a web of lies, misinformation and Moroccan operatives reshaping the truth.
- DirectorJesús Hermida JiménezJosé Manuel Sánchez FuentesStarsLiman BoishaBubisher, besides meaning a bird that brings luck, is a lorry loaded with Spanish literature that serves the Sahrawi refugee camps of Tindouf. Seeing how two cultures communicate through short stories and tales might seem paradoxical, but so is the contrast between the efforts of a young generation of women to overcome the odds and the reality of life in the desert.
- DirectorPierre-Yves VandeweerdDrawing from stories of flight, exile, interminable waiting and the arrested, persecuted lives on both sides of that wall dividing Morocco and the Sahrawi National Liberation Movement's Polisario Front, this film bears witness to the Sahrawi people, their land, their entrapment.
- DirectorDanielle SmithTells the story of a refugee camp of Sahrawis hoping to one day have a Western Sahara independent of Morocco.
- DirectorFany de la ChicaThe documentary tells the story of one day in Smara, a refugee camp in the south of Algeria. A handmade symbolic toke takes us through the lives of six characters and the reality of the situation in Sahara: The past, present and future of a population without land who want that their words will be heard by the world.
- StarsMenno BentveldMohamed HallabRosaleen McNeill25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall Menno Bentveld visits other similar walls in the world and talks to the people confronted with these walls and the effect it has on their lives.
- DirectorCarlos Hernandez LopezNawas and Sahrawis. This encounter takes place when an indigenous Nahua family from the north highlands of Puebla, in Mexico, welcomes into their house a sahrawi arab to share their customs and traditions. During this time spent together, one can recognize there is not only cultural similarities but also similar struggles, feelings and efforts to preserve their mother tongue, their culture and their territory.
- DirectorAndoni JaénJavier ReverteStarsFatma KamalFatma lives in Auserd's refugee camp in the Hamada of the Algerian desert. She listens to the news on TV, which gives her a great idea - to contact one of President Obama's daughters.
- DirectorTomás RojoStarsLala MohamedAhmed SalemBudha is one of the many children living in Refugee Camps for Sahrawi. One afternoon, he decides to stop playing football with his friends to play in the desert, far away from the village. Day after day, Budha is increasingly obsessed with the sand, which hides a little secret.