Youth Movies

  • 2026
    THE FUTURE IS A BAD HABIT

    THE FUTURE IS A BAD HABIT

    THE FUTURE IS A BAD HABIT

    02026HD

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

    THE FUTURE IS A BAD HABIT
  • 1970
    Tierras Niñas

    Tierras Niñas

    Tierras Niñas

    01970HD

    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...

    Tierras Niñas
  • 2024
    Saudade, Perhaps

    Saudade, Perhaps

    Saudade, Perhaps

    02024HD

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

    Saudade, Perhaps
  • 2021
    Young Masters: Shibi

    Young Masters: Shibi

    Young Masters: Shibi

    02021HD

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

    Young Masters: Shibi
  • 2026
    Aufstand der Jugend

    Aufstand der Jugend

    Aufstand der Jugend

    02026HD

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

    Aufstand der Jugend
  • 2024
    Sent to Guantánamo

    Sent to Guantánamo

    Sent to Guantánamo

    02024HD

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

    Sent to Guantánamo
  • 2017
    Skeikima

    Skeikima

    Skeikima

    02017HD

    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...

    Skeikima
  • 2023
    Lights, camera and sand

    Lights, camera and sand

    Lights, camera and sand

    02023HD

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

    Lights, camera and sand
  • 2006
    Lives on pause

    Lives on pause

    Lives on pause

    02006HD

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

    Lives on pause
  • 2013
    Third Ave

    Third Ave

    Third Ave

    02013HD

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

    Third Ave
  • 2025
    Free Anxiety

    Free Anxiety

    Free Anxiety

    02025HD

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

    Free Anxiety
  • 2020
    Searching for Tirfas

    Searching for Tirfas

    Searching for Tirfas

    02020HD

    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...

    Searching for Tirfas
  • 2020
    A.WAY

    A.WAY

    A.WAY

    02020HD

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

    A.WAY
  • 2016
    Portrait

    Portrait

    Portrait

    02016HD

    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...

    Portrait
  • 2009
    Dr. Barbara Staggers

    Dr. Barbara Staggers

    Dr. Barbara Staggers

    02009HD

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

    Dr. Barbara Staggers
  • 2020
    Sand on nails

    Sand on nails

    Sand on nails

    02020HD

    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...

    Sand on nails
  • 2015
    Sumud

    Sumud

    Sumud

    02015HD

    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...

    Sumud
  • 2022
    WANIBIK: The people who live in front of their land

    WANIBIK: The people who live in front of their land

    WANIBIK: The people who live in front of their land

    02022HD

    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,...

    WANIBIK: The people who live in front of their land
  • 2024
    Youth

    Youth

    Youth

    02024HD

    Youth
  • 2018
    I wait

    I wait

    I wait

    02018HD

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

    I wait