Discoveries from Western Sahara World Cinema

A feature-length documentary on energy, inequality, and the uneven terrain of the climate transition, focused on three communities in South Africa, Kenya, and Western Sahara.

My Sahrawi family' is a report - documentary that reflects the bonds of unity between Sahrawi families and Spanish families who every summer welcome minors from refugee camps into their homes.

The documentary show us their hard work in order to live with dignity and the importance of education and the position of woman, both key facts in Sahrawi’s surviving in such a hard environment.

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 horizon, school, games, the sullen world of the conversations that adults have while they make tea… Through film, he will discover very different worlds.

Moments after the king and his son has had a joyful chat about the previous day’s official ceremony of introducing to the kingdom its heir apparent to the throne, the queen comes to the king’s chamber to conspire against the prince.

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.

Moments after the king and his son has had a joyful chat about the previous day’s official ceremony of introducing to the kingdom its heir apparent to the throne, the queen comes to the king’s chamber to conspire against the prince.

"Legna: speak the Saharawi verse" is an audiovisual poetry story that traces the essential elements of the Saharawi culture, chaining the verses recited in a rigorous and evocative way in Hasania and Spanish by the poets and poetesses themselves. Poems that sing and evoke the essence of Bedouin material culture linked to the movement from Saquia el Hamra to Rio de Oro. A magical journey from the Draa River in the north to Agüenit and Leyuad on the southern border with Mauritania, from the coast with the white beaches of Bojador up to the vague boundaries of the Badia. A Saharawi national territory marked by the trace of the recent history of revolution, war, resistance (intifada) and waiting. Territory, history, culture, basted from poetry full of life, love and nostalgia.