Youth Movies

A young woman drifts through fragments of images, memories and borrowed realities while questioning the future she has been taught to desire. Work,...

Ventanas is a sacrifice zone. Beaches, water, and air are polluted by a vast industrial complex. During her last summer of childhood, Luz spends her...

José-Manuel Barata Xavier reflects on his old childhood bathtub.

Young Masters is an original series commissioned by NOWNESS China focusing on traditional Chinese cultures, and how they continue to be defined by a...

A diverse group of young people decides to make their voices heard in a democracy. They design campaigns, stage performances, shoot music videos,...

Four roommates and classmates spend a morning playing a card game to decide who gets a ticket to see a famous actor.

How would you claim your identity in a hostile land? How could you live under harassment and repression? How would you make your voice break through...

A short film that portrays the lives of two students from the Abidin Kaid Saleh Film School, located in the Sahrawi refugee camps

Every year, approximately 800 Sahrawi boys and girls leave the refugee camps to study in Cuba, Algeria and Libya… 15 years later, they return...

A young man reflects on his past and the boy that changed everything for him.

Anxiety frightens, but can it be used to improve ourselves?

When you are born in refugee camps, you grow up dreaming that one day you will live in your homeland, and as time goes on, this never goes beyond...

"A.WAY" is a journey into lost memories of youth, purely constructed with archive material. A nostalgic reverie that transitions into a feeling of...

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...

Dr. Barbara Staggers, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2004 Community Leadership Awards (San Francisco Foundation Award) - for her dedication...

The history of Western Sahara was cut short more than 40 years ago. One, two and almost three generations have seen their life expectations and those...

In 1976 Spain abandoned its last colony, the Western Sahara, in the hands of Morocco. Since then, the Saharawi people have been divided between those...

The film, shot in the Saharawi refugee population camps, tells the story of a group of students from a film school who, for their final year project,...

Is already 40 years since the saharawi population became refugee in Algeria because of the Moroccan occupation. While the POLISARIO government tries...