Falling for Sahara

Beniam, Ramsy and MJ are best friends. Hanging out at the Flemington housing commission flats they call home, the three Africans share a tight bond and a love of footy. But with the arrival of Sahara - smart, beautiful a

Silent Sahara rising

"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, byp

Jewel of the Sahara

Set in a French Foreign Legion Camp circa 1954, the film follows the fantasies of a British captain, desperately missing his home and wife

The Child of the Sahara

While in high school class, a French teenager of Moroccan origin loses his parents in a car accident. A few days later, social services learn that he was adopted and that his natural parents are his aunt and uncle who li

The Sahara Became Swampland

The theme here is the rapid development from the beginning of the universe to the Gauls. At the half-way stage of this development, the Sahara became a swamp. Before, a marine environment, later, a desert. The time durin

Western Sahara determined

Western Sahara is one of the most heavily mined territories in the world following decades of conflict with its neighbours. Despite a 1991 ceasefire, most Sahrawis still linger in refugee camps in Algeria because it is t

Sahara, the cherished referendum

Looking at the situation of the Sahrawi people in 1999, the documentary examines different aspects of institutions and organisation methods from the military to education, healthcare, camp administration and the search f

Kites in Sahara

Short film filmed in February 2010 at the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria). A poetic look into the situation that refugees go through and into the conflict itself. Soundtrack by Palestinian musicians and Spanis

Caribbeans of the Sahara

...the desert is your own face, and if you don't love your own face, who could you love someday?...

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Sahara is not for sale

In April 2007, during the celebration of FiSahara, three friends embarked on the adventure of teaching a photography course in the Dajla refugee camp in Algeria.

Douz: The Door Of The Sahara

The story is set in Douz, a town in south-western Tunisia. Once a key route for sub-Saharan trade, it served the vast Eastern Erg and linked the Tunisian Sahara with that of Algeria, Libya, Niger and Egypt. The film tell

Sahara Hellen: El Regreso del Vampiro

Sahara Hellen returns from the dead after 100 years to exact revenge and bring the curse against all those who mocked her.

Diaspora in the Sahara

Testimonies of a people enlisted on the path of independence. Records taken at refugee camps in Tindouf (Sahara Desert in southern Algeria) and Bir Lehlu (region liberated by the Polisario Front)

A Son of the Sahara

As a boy, Raoul is reared by an Arab tribe in Algerian Sahara. Years later, as a refined Europeanized gentleman, he falls in love with Barbara, an officer's daughter, who rejects him when she discovers his background. Af

S.O.S. Sahara

At a North Africa desert outpost threatened by Arabs, the French commander has added trouble when his wife visits and is captivated by a younger officer.

Forgotten in the Sahara

This documentary follows the journey of two journalists to the occupied territories of Western Sahara where they are monitored constantly by the occupying Moroccan forces.

25 minutes of Sahara

25 minutes in the Sahara, is a snapshot of the 34 years of division in which resistance and justice for the Sahrawi community has played out. 1500 seconds of images and voices are heard from exile; voices that are not si

Sahara: Like a Desert

She wants a child but can't say it out loud, he doesn't ask. Can they stay together not talking to each other?

Anacos do Sáhara

A child showing a stranger the pleasure of throwing pebbles into the wilderness. Behind them, the sun sets behind the wilaya.