Meet the Sahara Film School

Meet a Saharawi (Meet a Sahrawi of Saharawi Voice)

Western Sahara, 2021, 5 min.,

VO Spanish with English subtitles

Tiba Sidihaiba is the Director of Film and Theatre within the Sahrawi Ministry of Culture. In this interview, Sahara Voice spoke with him about the FiSahara (International Sahara Film Festival), the Abidin Kaid Saleh School of Audiovisual Training (Sahrawi Film School), the Western Sahara Solar Cinema (mobile cinema) and the challenges they face in refugee population camps to achieve the objectives of Saharan cinema.

TOUFA | Government

Western Sahara (2020) 30 '

Language: Hassaniya (Arabic). Spanish subs.

Director: Brahim Chagaf

Producer: Jadiya Ali & Omar Ahmed

Script: Hamudi Salek & Brahim Chagaf

Edition: Brahim Chagaf

Director of Photography: Ahmed Omar & Haddi Lehbib

Sound: Lafdal Mohamed Salem, Sidi Brahim Nayem and Raul De la Fuente.

Interpreters: Dami Labd, Nasrhala Ali, Mariam Omar, Salka Mohamed Bu Zaid, Galia Omar.

«Toufa» It recreates the beginning of the arrival of the Saharan population in the arid Hamada desert. This short recounts the suffering of three generations of Saharan women, who with their efforts and sacrifice healed the wounds of war upon their arrival in the inhospitable territory of this part of southern Algeria.

In favour of land / land

Western Sahara (2020) 14 '

Language: Hassaniya (Arabic). Subs. Spanish.

Director: Lafdal Mohamed Salem

Producer: Hayetna Mohamed Deidi

Script: Mohamed Salem Salek

Edition: Ahmed Omar

Director of Photography: Ahmed Mohamed Lamin

Music: Studi Tidinit

Sound: Brahim Chagaf

Interpreters: Hamadha Lahsan, Galia Mohamed, Praise Brahim, Sleman Lfilali, Malainin Abdalahi

When you are born in refugee camps, you grow up dreaming that one day you will live in your native land, and over time, this does not go from being a dream... You become the father of a family, and at that moment, you have to face life to achieve self-sufficiency. You fight to reach your dreams and face the daily obstacles, between both worlds, you end up doing what you never thought you'd do.

The Price of Beauty|The Price of Beauty -

Western Sahara, 2020, Fiction, 7 min

Language: Hassaniya (Arabic). Spanish subs.

Address: Ahmed Moh Lamin

Script: Salma Mustafa

Edition: Brahim Chagaf

Music: Ali Seidah

Interpreters: Afatu Med Yahia, Zaina Ali, Afatu Abdelrahman, Abdalahi Med Fadel Bani, Alien Bulahi

This denounces the beauty canons to which Sahrawi women are subjected who use whitening products to clear their skin, ignoring the risks they may suffer.