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{{Infobox film festival
{{Infobox film festival
| name = Sahara International Film Festival<br/>''Festival de Cine del Sáhara''<br/>الصحراء السينمائي الدولي
| name = Sahara International Film Festival<br/>''Festival de Cine del Sáhara''<br/>الصحراء السينمائي الدولي
| image = FiSahara LOGO ALTA.jpg
| image = FISAHARA LOGO BO 250px.png
| caption =
| caption =
| location = [[Wilaya of Dakhla]], [[Sahrawi refugee camps]], [[Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic]] / [[Algeria]]
| location = [[Sahrawi refugee camps]]
| founded = November 2003
| founded = November 2003
| awards = White Camel
| awards = White Camel
| language = International
| language = International
| number =
| number =
| website = http://www.festivalsahara.com<br/>{{es icon}}
| website = {{URL|https://fisahara.es/}}
}}
}}


[[Image:Veronica Forque en el Sáhara libre.jpg|300px|thumb|The Spanish actress [[Verónica Forqué]] at the 2007 edition festival.]]
[[Image:Veronica Forque en el Sáhara libre.jpg|thumb|The Spanish actress [[Verónica Forqué]] at the 2007 edition festival.]]
The '''Sahara International Film Festival''', also known as '''FiSahara''', is an annual event which takes place in the [[Sahrawi refugee camps]], at the South West corner of [[Algeria]], near the border with [[Western Sahara]]. It is the only film festival in the world taking place in a [[refugee camp]].<ref name="ElMundoFiSahara08">[http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2008/04/17/solidaridad/1208429499.html Comienza 'Fisahara 2008', el único festival de cine en un campo de refugiados] [[El Mundo (Spain)|El Mundo]], 18 April 2008 {{es icon}}</ref> The first three years the festival was held alternately in the [[Wilaya of Smara]], [[Wilaya of Ausserd]] and [[Wilaya of El Aaiun]], but since 2007 the FiSahara had stayed in the [[Wilaya of Dakhla]]. The event is backed by the [[Polisario Front]],<ref name="Roape Article">[http://www.roape.org/cgi-bin/roape/show/9920.html Roape Article]</ref> but largely organised and funded by donors from [[Spain]], the former colonial power in Western Sahara, attracting support from Spanish film celebrities as [[Penélope Cruz]] and [[Pedro Almodóvar]].<ref>{{cite news|title=FiSahara: The World’s Most Remote Film Festival|url=http://blog.africageographic.com/safari-blog/events-festivals/fisahara-the-worlds-most-remote-film-festival/|author=Holly Meadows|publisher=Africa Geographic|date=11 April 2012|accessdate=17 December 2012}}</ref> This Festival is an initiative to bring film as an entertainment and cultural form to the thousands of Sahrawis whose community has lived for more than thirty years in relative isolation in the Algerian desert, being the only film festival in the world taking place in a [[refugee camp]].
The '''Sahara International Film Festival''', also known as '''FiSahara''', is an annual event which takes place in the [[Sahrawi refugee camps]], at the southwest corner of [[Algeria]], near the border with [[Western Sahara]]. It is the only [[film festival]] in the world held in a [[refugee camp]].<ref name="official">{{Cite web |url=https://fisahara.es/ |access-date=22 December 2023 |website=fisahara.es |title=FiSahara, International Film Festival, Festival international de Cine |language=es |publisher=}}</ref><ref name="ElMundoFiSahara08">{{Cite journal |journal=[[El Mundo (Spain)|El Mundo]] |url=http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2008/04/17/solidaridad/1208429499.html |title=Con la presencia di Javier Bardem. Comienza 'Fisahara 2008', el único festival de cine en un campo de refugiados |date=18 April 2008 |publisher=Mundinteractivos, S.A. |language=es |access-date=22 December 2023}}</ref> The first festival was in large part organised by Peruvian film director [[Javier Corcuera]].<ref name="Roape Article"/>
The first festival was in large part organised by Peruvian film director [[Javier Corcuera]].<ref name="Roape Article"/>


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For its first three years, FiSahara was held alternately in the [[Wilayah|Wilaya]] of [[Smara]], the Wilaya of [[Ausserd]], and the Wilaya of [[Laayoune|El Aaiún]]. Since 2007, the festival has been staged in the Wilaya of [[Dakhla, Western Sahara|Dajla]]. The event is backed by the [[Polisario Front]],<ref name="Roape Article">{{Cite journal |journal=Review of African Political Economy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041107213041/http://www.roape.org:80/cgi-bin/roape/show/9920.html |url=http://www.roape.org:80/cgi-bin/roape/show/9920.html |archive-date=2004-11-07 |title=First International Sahara Film Festival |first=Paul |last=Laverty |author-link=Paul Laverty |date=March 2004 |volume=31 |issue=99 |pages=175-180 |access-date=22 December 2023}}</ref> but largely organised and funded by donors from [[Spain]], the former colonial power in Western Sahara. The festival has attracted support from Spanish film celebrities, including [[Penélope Cruz]], [[Javier Bardem]], and [[Pedro Almodóvar]].{{cn|date=December 2022}} Musicians like [[Fermín Muguruza]],<ref>[http://lacomunidad.elpais.com/festival-cine-sahara/2008/4/23/me-gusta-sahara-me-gustas-tu Me gusta el Sáhara, me gustas tú] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012015101/http://lacomunidad.elpais.com/festival-cine-sahara/2008/4/23/me-gusta-sahara-me-gustas-tu |date=2013-10-12 }} Cine entre las dunas&nbsp;– ''[[El País]]'', 23 April 2008 {{in lang|es}}</ref><ref>[http://www.radiochango.com/castellano/fotos/Festival-Internacional-de-Cine-del-Sahara-FiSa.html Festival Internacional de Cine del Sahara (FiSahara) 2009] Radiochango.com {{in lang|es}}</ref> [[Manu Chao]],<ref name="ElMundoFiSahara08"/> [[Macaco (band)|Macaco]],<ref>[http://macaco.es/2009/05/macaco-actuara-en-la-clausura-del-vi-festival-internacional-de-cine-del-sahara-fisahara/ Macaco actuará en la clausura del VI Festival Internacional de Cine Del Sahara (FiSAHARA)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130704232901/http://macaco.es/2009/05/macaco-actuara-en-la-clausura-del-vi-festival-internacional-de-cine-del-sahara-fisahara/ |date=2013-07-04 }} Macaco.es, 7 May 2009 {{in lang|es}}</ref> [[Iván Ferreiro]],<ref>[http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2010/05/02/cultura/1272809387.html Ivan Ferreiro corona el desierto] El Mundo, 3 May 2010 {{in lang|es}}</ref> [[El Chojin]]<ref>[http://www.elchojin.net/2011/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29:el-chjin-en-fisahara-2011&catid=1:general&Itemid=3 El Chojin en FISAHARA 2011] Elchojin.net, 12 April 2011 {{in lang|es}}</ref> and [[Tomasito]]<ref>[http://www.inzona.es/el-canijo-de-jerez-y-tomasito-en-el-festival-de-cine-del-sahara.html El Canijo de Jerez y Tomasito en el Festival de Cine del Sahara] Inzona.es, 1 May 2012 {{in lang|es}}</ref> have performed in concerts during the festival.
The festival has the two-fold aim of providing cultural entertainment and educational opportunities to refugees, and of raising awareness of the plight of the Sahrawi people, who have been exiled from their native western Sahara for more than three decades. Western Sahara, “Africa’s last colony,” was given to Morocco and Mauritania by the Spanish when they withdrew in 1976. The Moroccans subsequently annexed the entire territory in 1979, in defiance of a ruling from the [[International Court of Justice]]. A sixteen-year war ensued between the Moroccans and the native Sahrawi independence movement, the Polisario Front. Under the terms of a 1991 UN ceasefire agreement, a referendum for self-determination was promised, but has been blocked by Morocco. In the meantime an estimated 165,000 refugees continue to live in four large camps in the inhospitable Algerian desert.


FiSahara is billed as an initiative to bring film as an entertainment and cultural form to the thousands of Sahrawis who live in the [[Algerian Desert|Algerian desert]]. It also aims to provide cultural entertainment and educational opportunities to the refugees.
Home to around 30,000 refugees, Dakhla is the most remote of the camps, located 175&nbsp;km away from the nearest city, [[Tindouf]].<ref>{{cite news|title=FiSahara: Film Festival in the Desert|url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/may/13/desert-film-festivalaccessdate=11|author=Stefan Simanowitz|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=13 May 2010}}</ref> It has no electricity or paved roads and is dependent on outside supplies of food and water.<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/how-a-saharan-refugee-camp-launched-an-international-film-festival-1685002.html The Riddle of the Sands: How a refugee camps set up an international film festival] Stefan Simanowitz, ''The Independent'', 15 May 2009</ref>


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In 2010, a twinning agreement was signed between the FiSahara and the [[San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival]].<ref>[http://www.donostia.org/home.nsf/0/7CAB9FDF66EB6C66C125790C003BD622?OpenDocument&idioma=ing&id=J447717352751 Objective Fisahara: Twinning between the San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival and the Sahara International Film Festival, seen in pictures and first-hand accounts] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20131011233739/http://www.donostia.org/home.nsf/0/7CAB9FDF66EB6C66C125790C003BD622?OpenDocument&idioma=ing&id=J447717352751 |date=2013-10-11 }} Donostia.org</ref>
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Musicians like [[Fermín Muguruza]],<ref>[http://lacomunidad.elpais.com/festival-cine-sahara/2008/4/23/me-gusta-sahara-me-gustas-tu Me gusta el Sáhara, me gustas tú] Cine entre las dunas&nbsp;– ''[[El País]]'', 23 April 2008 {{es icon}}</ref><ref>[http://www.radiochango.com/castellano/fotos/Festival-Internacional-de-Cine-del-Sahara-FiSa.html Festival Internacional de Cine del Sahara (FiSahara) 2009] Radiochango.com {{es icon}}</ref> [[Manu Chao]],<ref name="ElMundoFiSahara08"/> [[Macaco (band)|Macaco]],<ref>[http://macaco.es/2009/05/macaco-actuara-en-la-clausura-del-vi-festival-internacional-de-cine-del-sahara-fisahara/ Macaco actuará en la clausura del VI Festival Internacional de Cine Del Sahara (FiSAHARA)] Macaco.es, 7 May 2009 {{es icon}}</ref> [[Iván Ferreiro]],<ref>[http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2010/05/02/cultura/1272809387.html Ivan Ferreiro corona el desierto] El Mundo, 3 May 2010 {{es icon}}</ref> [[El Chojin]]<ref>[http://www.elchojin.net/2011/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29:el-chjin-en-fisahara-2011&catid=1:general&Itemid=3 El Chojin en FISAHARA 2011] Elchojin.net, 12 April 2011 {{es icon}}</ref> or [[Tomasito]]<ref>[http://www.inzona.es/el-canijo-de-jerez-y-tomasito-en-el-festival-de-cine-del-sahara.html El Canijo de Jerez y Tomasito en el Festival de Cine del Sahara] Inzona.es, 1 May 2012 {{es icon}}</ref> had also performed in concerts during the festival.


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==White Camel winners==
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In 2010, a twinning agreement was signed between the FiSahara and the [[San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival]].<ref>[http://www.donostia.org/home.nsf/0/7CAB9FDF66EB6C66C125790C003BD622?OpenDocument&idioma=ing&id=J447717352751 Objective Fisahara: Twinning between the San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival and the Sahara International Film Festival, seen in pictures and first-hand accounts] Donostia.org</ref>
{{Distinguish|White Camel award}}

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The '''White Camel''' ({{langx|ar|الجمل الأبيض}}) is the festival's top prize, awarded for the best film by election of the spectators.<ref>[http://www.festivalsahara.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=204%3Aactividades-paralelas-2&catid=53%3Aprogramacion-fisahara-2011&Itemid=60&lang=en Additional festival events] Festivalsahara.com</ref> It consists of a white female [[camel]], which is traditionally donated to the refugee family who hosted the actors or director of the winning film during the festival. The winners receive a trophy depicting a white camel and a [[Desert rose (crystal)|desert rose]].
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==White Camel Winners==
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The '''White Camel''' ({{lang-ar|'''الإبل الأبيض'''}}) is the festival's highest prize, awarded for the best film by election of the spectators.<ref>[http://www.festivalsahara.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=204%3Aactividades-paralelas-2&catid=53%3Aprogramacion-fisahara-2011&Itemid=60&lang=en Additional festival events] Festivalsahara.com</ref> It consists on a white female [[camel]], which is traditionally donated to the refugee family who had hosted the actors or director of the winner film during the festival. Instead, the winners take home a trophy depicting a white camel and a [[Desert rose (crystal)|desert rose]].


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|-
! Year || Date || Film
! Year || Date || Film
! Director || Nationality
! Nationality || Director
|-
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2003 ||rowspan="2"| 20–23 November ||rowspan="2"| ''[[The Living Forest]]''
|rowspan="2"| 2003 ||rowspan="2"| 20–23 November ||rowspan="2"| ''[[The Living Forest]]''
|| [[Ángel de la Cruz]] ||rowspan="2"| {{flag|Spain}}
|rowspan="2"| {{flag|Spain}} || Ángel de la Cruz
|-
|-
|[[Manolo Gómez]]
|Manolo Gómez
|-
|-
| 2004 || December (Not Held) || N/A || N/A || N/A
| 2004 || December (Not Held) || N/A || N/A || N/A
|-
|-
| 2005 || 3–6 March ||''[[L'extraordinaire destin de Madame Brouette|Madame Brouette]]''
| 2005 || 3–6 March ||''[[L'extraordinaire destin de Madame Brouette|Madame Brouette]]''
| [[Moussa Sene Absa]] || {{flag|Senegal}}
| {{flag|Senegal}}<br/>{{flag|France}}<br/>{{flag|Canada}} || [[Moussa Sene Absa]]
|-
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2006 ||rowspan="2"| 5–9 April ||rowspan="2"| ''[[The Story of the Weeping Camel]]''
|rowspan="2"| 2006 ||rowspan="2"| 5–9 April ||rowspan="2"| ''[[The Story of the Weeping Camel]]''
|| [[Byambasuren Davaa]] || {{flag|Mongolia}}
|rowspan="2"| {{flag|Mongolia}}<br/>{{flag|Germany}} || [[Byambasuren Davaa]]
|-
|-
|[[Luigi Farloni]] || {{GER}}
|Luigi Farloni
|-
|-
| 2007 || 10–15 April || ''[[Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest]]''
| 2007 || 10–15 April || ''[[Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest]]''
| {{flag|France}}<br/>{{flag|Belgium}}<br/>{{flag|Spain}}<br/>{{flag|Italy}} || [[Michel Ocelot]]
| [[Michel Ocelot]] || {{FRA}}
|-
|-
| 2008 || 17–20 April || ''[[It's a Free World...]]''
| 2008 || 17–20 April || ''[[It's a Free World...]]''
| [[Ken Loach]] || {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} || [[Ken Loach]]
|-
|-
| 2009 || 5–10 May || ''[[Che: Part 2]]''
| 2009 || 5–10 May || ''[[Che: Part 2]]''
| [[Steven Soderbergh]] || {{flag|United States}}
| {{flag|United States}}<br/>{{flag|Spain}}<br/>{{flag|France}} || [[Steven Soderbergh]]
|-
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2010 ||rowspan="2"| 26 April-2 May ||rowspan="2"| ''[[The Problem (documentary)|The Problem]]''
|rowspan="2"| 2010 ||rowspan="2"| 26 April-2 May ||rowspan="2"| ''[[The Problem (documentary)|The Problem]]''
||[[Jordi Ferrer]] ||rowspan="2"| {{flag|Spain}}
|rowspan="2"| {{flag|Spain}} || Jordi Ferrer
|-
|-
|[[Pablo Vidal]]
|Pablo Vidal
|-
|-
| 2011 || 2–8 May || ''[[Entrelobos]]''
| 2011 || 2–8 May || ''[[Entrelobos]]''
| {{flag|Spain}}<br/>{{flag|Germany}} || [[Gerardo Olivares]]
| [[Gerardo Olivares]] || {{flag|Spain}}
|-
|-
| 2012 || 1–6 May || ''[[Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony]]''
| 2012 || 1–6 May || ''[[Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony]]''
| [[Alvaro Longoria]] || {{flag|Spain}}
| {{flag|Spain}} || [[Alvaro Longoria]]
|-
|-
| 2013 || 8–13 October || ''[[Mayibuye I]]''
| 2013 || 8–13 October || ''[[Mayibuye I]]''
| [[Milly Moabl]] || {{flag|South Africa}}
| {{flag|South Africa}} || Milly Moabl
|-
|rowspan="3"| 2014 ||rowspan="3"| 29 April–4 May ||rowspan="3"| ''[[Legna: Habla el Verso Saharaui]]''<ref>{{cite news|title="Legna" film wins first award of FiSahara|url=http://www.spsrasd.info/en/content/legna-film-wins-first-award-fisahara|publisher=[[Sahara Press Service]]|date=4 May 2014|access-date=16 May 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517121422/http://www.spsrasd.info/en/content/legna-film-wins-first-award-fisahara|archive-date=17 May 2014}}</ref>
|rowspan="3"| {{flag|Sahrawi Republic}}<br/>{{flag|Spain}} || Juan Robles
|-
|[[Bahia Mahmud Awah|Bahia Awah]]
|-
|Juan Carlos Gimeno
|-
| 2015 || 28 April-3 May || ''Granito: How to Nail a Dictator'' || {{flag|United States}} || [[Pamela Yates]]
|-
| 2016 || 11–16 October || ''Ladjouad'' || {{flag|Sahrawi Republic}} || [[Brahim Chegaf]]
|-
| 2022 || 11–16 October<ref>{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=October 8, 2022|title=Announcement of return of “Fi-Sahara” Film Festival in its 17th edition|url=https://www.spsrasd.info/news/en/articles/2022/10/08/42042.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008204602/https://www.spsrasd.info/news/en/articles/2022/10/08/42042.html|archive-date=October 8, 2022|access-date=October 8, 2022|page=|website=www.spsrasd.info|language=en}}</ref> || ''Wanibik, the people who live in front of their land''<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=October 15, 2022 |title=Wanibik, by the Algerian Rabah Slimani, wins the White Camel at the 17 edition of FiSahara |url=https://fisahara.es/en/news/fisahara2022-closing/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128193809/https://fisahara.es/en/news/fisahara2022-closing/ |archive-date=January 28, 2023 |access-date=October 15, 2022 |website=Fisahara |language=en-US}}</ref>|| {{flag|Algeria}} || [[Rabeh Slimani]]
|-
| 2024 || 29 Abril – 5 May<ref>{{cite news|title=FiSahara 2024 embraces Palestine and awards the film '200 meters' with the White Camel|url=https://fisahara.es/en/news/fisahara-2024-abraza-a-palestina-y-premia-a-la-pelicula-200-metros-con-la-camella-blanca/|publisher=FI-Sahara|access-date=16 May 2024}}</ref> || ''[[200 Meters (film)|200 meters]]'' || {{flag|Palestine}} || [[Ameen Nayfeh]], [[Ahmad Al-Bazz]]
|-
|-
| 2014 || 29 April–4 May || TBA
| TBA || TBA
|}
|}


'''Guest Country'''
==Guest country==
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In some years, the festival has chosen a country to be a guest in the event. In such cases, films from the guest country are screened, and related events take place along with the other acts in the festival.

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Since 2006, some years the festival elect a country to be guest in the event. In such cases, films from the guest country are screened and related events take place along the other acts in the festival.


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|-
! Year !! Guest Country/Continent
! Year !! Guest Country
|-
|-
| 2006 || {{CUB}}<ref>[http://www.somosjovenes.cu/arte/semana2/cinesaha.htm Cuba: país invitado en el III Festival Internacional de Cine del Sahara] Somosjovenes.cu {{es icon}}</ref><ref>[http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=28119 Cuba será el país invitado en el III Festival Internacional de Cine del Sahara] [[Rebelion.org]], 13 March 2006 {{es icon}}</ref>
| 2006 || {{CUB}}<ref>[http://www.somosjovenes.cu/arte/semana2/cinesaha.htm Cuba: país invitado en el III Festival Internacional de Cine del Sahara] Somosjovenes.cu {{in lang|es}}</ref><ref>[http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=28119 Cuba será el país invitado en el III Festival Internacional de Cine del Sahara] [[Rebelion.org]], 13 March 2006 {{in lang|es}}</ref>
|-
|-
| 2009 || {{ALG}}<ref>[http://fisahara.blogspot.com.es/2009/06/arranca-fisahara-09.html Arranca FiSahara 09] FiSahara.blogspot.com.es, 23 March 2009 {{es icon}}</ref><ref>[http://blog.hola.com/viviresunplacer/2009/04/fisahara-09.html FISAHARA 09] Vivir bien es un placer!!! ([[¡Hola!]]), 21 April 2009 {{es icon}}</ref>
| 2009 || {{ALG}}<ref>[http://fisahara.blogspot.com.es/2009/06/arranca-fisahara-09.html Arranca FiSahara 09] FiSahara.blogspot.com.es, 23 March 2009 {{in lang|es}}</ref><ref>[http://blog.hola.com/viviresunplacer/2009/04/fisahara-09.html FISAHARA 09] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327234703/http://blog.hola.com/viviresunplacer/2009/04/fisahara-09.html |date=2014-03-27 }} Vivir bien es un placer!!! ([[¡Hola!]]), 21 April 2009 {{in lang|es}}</ref>
|-
|-
| 2010 || {{RSA}}<ref>[http://www.fcat.es/wpFCAT/?p=445 El FCAT con el pueblo saharaui en el FiSahara 2010] [[African Film Festival of Cordoba|African Film Festival of Tarifa]] {{es icon}}</ref><ref>[http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/675194/0/fisahara/festival/cine/ FiSahara, el festival de cine que se celebra en un campamento de refugiados] [[20 minutos]], 12 April 2010 {{es icon}}</ref>
| 2010 || {{RSA}}<ref>[http://www.fcat.es/wpFCAT/?p=445 El FCAT con el pueblo saharaui en el FiSahara 2010] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120708040048/http://www.fcat.es/wpFCAT/?p=445 |date=2012-07-08 }} [[African Film Festival of Cordoba|African Film Festival of Tarifa]] {{in lang|es}}</ref><ref>[http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/675194/0/fisahara/festival/cine/ FiSahara, el festival de cine que se celebra en un campamento de refugiados] [[20 minutos]], 12 April 2010 {{in lang|es}}</ref>
|-
|-
| 2011 || {{VEN}}<ref>[http://archief.rnw.nl/espanol/article/concluye-el-fisahara-2011-entre-el-cine-y-la-reivindicaci%C3%B3n Concluye el FiSahara 2011: entre el cine y la reivindicación] [[Radio Netherlands Worldwide]], 9 May 2011 {{es icon}}</ref><ref>[http://www.abc.es/20110503/cultura/rc-fisahara-cine-bajo-estrellas-201105032037.html FiSahara: cine bajo las estrellas] [[ABC (newspaper)|ABC]], 4 May 2011 {{es icon}}</ref>
| 2011 || {{VEN}}<ref>[http://archief.rnw.nl/espanol/article/concluye-el-fisahara-2011-entre-el-cine-y-la-reivindicaci%C3%B3n Concluye el FiSahara 2011: entre el cine y la reivindicación] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413125717/http://archief.rnw.nl/espanol/article/concluye-el-fisahara-2011-entre-el-cine-y-la-reivindicaci%C3%B3n |date=2014-04-13 }} [[Radio Netherlands Worldwide]], 9 May 2011 {{in lang|es}}</ref><ref>[http://www.abc.es/20110503/cultura/rc-fisahara-cine-bajo-estrellas-201105032037.html FiSahara: cine bajo las estrellas] [[ABC (newspaper)|ABC]], 4 May 2011 {{in lang|es}}</ref>
|-
|-
| 2012 || {{MEX}}<ref>[http://www.publico.es/culturas/431732/no-conseguiran-atemorizar-al-fisahara "No conseguirán atemorizar al FiSahara"] [[Público (Spain)|Público]] (EFE), 2 May 2012 {{es icon}}</ref><ref>[http://www.spsrasd.info/es/content/la-delegaci%C3%B3n-de-m%C3%A9xico-en-el-fisahara-afirma-su-determinaci%C3%B3n-de-romper-el-silencio-informa La delegación de México en el FiSahara afirma su determinación de romper el silencio informativo en el Sáhara Occidental] [[Sahara Press Service]], 3 May 2012 {{es icon}}</ref>
| 2012 || {{MEX}}<ref>[http://www.publico.es/culturas/431732/no-conseguiran-atemorizar-al-fisahara "No conseguirán atemorizar al FiSahara"] [[Público (Spain)|Público]] (EFE), 2 May 2012 {{in lang|es}}</ref><ref>[http://www.spsrasd.info/es/content/la-delegaci%C3%B3n-de-m%C3%A9xico-en-el-fisahara-afirma-su-determinaci%C3%B3n-de-romper-el-silencio-informa La delegación de México en el FiSahara afirma su determinación de romper el silencio informativo en el Sáhara Occidental] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413141928/http://www.spsrasd.info/es/content/la-delegaci%C3%B3n-de-m%C3%A9xico-en-el-fisahara-afirma-su-determinaci%C3%B3n-de-romper-el-silencio-informa |date=2014-04-13 }} [[Sahara Press Service]], 3 May 2012 {{in lang|es}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{USA}}<ref>[http://www.spsrasd.info/en/content/decade-after-fisahara-achieved-international-status-confirms-saharawi-culture-minister Decade after: FiSahara achieved international status, confirms Saharawi Culture Minister] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413145635/http://www.spsrasd.info/en/content/decade-after-fisahara-achieved-international-status-confirms-saharawi-culture-minister |date=2014-04-13 }} Sahara Press Service, 10 July 2013</ref>
| 2013 || {{USA}}
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| 2014 || {{RSA}}<ref>[http://www.sadr-emb-au.net/south-africa-guest-of-honor-of-fisahara-2014-and-nelson-mandela-honored-in-the-occasion/ South Africa guest of honor of FiSahara 2014 and Nelson Mandela honored in the occasion] SADR Permanent Mission in Ethiopia and African Union, 9 April 2014</ref>
| 2014 || {{RSA}}<ref>[http://www.sadr-emb-au.net/south-africa-guest-of-honor-of-fisahara-2014-and-nelson-mandela-honored-in-the-occasion/ South Africa guest of honor of FiSahara 2014 and Nelson Mandela honored in the occasion] SADR Permanent Mission in Ethiopia and African Union, 9 April 2014</ref>
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| 2023 || {{ESP}}<ref name="official" />
|}
|}


==External links==
==External links==
* {{Cite web |url=https://fisahara.es/ |access-date=22 December 2023 |website=fisahara.es |title=FiSahara, International Film Festival, Festival international de Cine |language=es |publisher=}}
*[http://www.donostia.org/info/juventud/casa_paz.nsf/voWebContenidosId/C37C8D1915466617C125783F004313EB/$file/Libro%20Fisahara%20Ingles-Def.pdf Objective FiSahara] Donostia.org&nbsp;– 24-page book about the FiSahara, with texts by Juan Carlos Izagirre, [[Eduardo Galeano]], [[Paul Laverty]], Javier Corcuera, Javier Bardem and others.
* {{Cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012045547/http://www.donostia.org/info/juventud/casa_paz.nsf/voWebContenidosId/C37C8D1915466617C125783F004313EB/$file/Libro%20Fisahara%20Ingles-Def.pdf |archive-date=2013-10-12 |url=http://www.donostia.org/info/juventud/casa_paz.nsf/voWebContenidosId/C37C8D1915466617C125783F004313EB/$file/Libro%20Fisahara%20Ingles-Def.pdf |title=Objective FiSahara English |website=donostia.org |access-date=22 December 2023 |format=PDF |quote=The International Sahara Film Festival (FISahara), which began in 2002, is a personal initiative inspired by the President of the State Coordinator of Associated Friends of the Sahara (CEAS), who, without a doubt, discovered how to generate a current of enthusiasm and cohesion among the various active parties within Spanish cinema.}} 24-page book about the FiSahara festival, with texts by [[Javier Bardem]], [[Javier Corcuera]], [[Eduardo Galeano]], Juan Carlos Izagirre, [[Paul Laverty]], and others.
*[http://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/19860/1/Quaderns_Cine_07_09.pdf SÁHARA OCCIDENTAL: LA REVOLUCIÓN DEL CINE O EL CINE DE LA REVOLUCIÓN] by David Bollero Real {{es icon}}
* {{Cite web |url=http://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/19860/1/Quaderns_Cine_07_09.pdf |title=Sáhara Occidental: La Revolución del Cine o el Cine de la Revolución (translation: West Sahara: Revolution of the Cinema or Cinema of the Revolution) |first=David |last=Bollero Real |language=es |access-date=22 December 2023 |format=PDF}}
*[http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/search/blog?s=stefan+simanowitz Prospect Magazine&nbsp;– Blogs] Preview of 6th FISahara
* {{Cite web |url=https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/58911/the-devils-garden-preview-of-the-sahara-film-festival |title="The Devil's Garden": Preview of the Sahara Film Festival |first=Stefan |last=Simanowitz |date=May 3, 2009 |website=prospectmagazine.co.uk |access-date=22 December 2023}}
* {{Cite web |url=https://www.scribd.com/document/201223948/A-Cinematic-Refuge-in-the-Desert-The-FiSahara-Film-Festival |title=A Cinematic Refuge in the Desert: The FiSahara Film Festival (from St Andrew's University's Film Festival Yearbook 2011)|access-date=22 December 2023 |first1=Stefan |last1=Simanowitz |first2=Isabel |last2= Santaolalla |website=scribd.com |publisher=Scribd.Inc (digital document library), San Francisco, USA. |quote=During the 1960s, when decolonisation movements were sweeping the world, there was a joke that, after achieving independence, a country had to do three things: design a flag, launch an airline and found a film festival (Rich 1999: 79). Western Sahara has a flag but no airline and, despite a struggle that has lasted over three decades, it has yet to achieve independence. The closest Western Sahara comes to its own film festival is Festival Internacional de Cine del Sahara (FISahara) (www.festivalsahara.com), a festival like no other that takes place in a refugee camp in the middle of the desert.}}


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Sahara International Film Festival
Festival de Cine del Sáhara
الصحراء السينمائي الدولي
LocationSahrawi refugee camps
FoundedNovember 2003
AwardsWhite Camel
LanguageInternational
Websitefisahara.es
The Spanish actress Verónica Forqué at the 2007 edition festival.

The Sahara International Film Festival, also known as FiSahara, is an annual event which takes place in the Sahrawi refugee camps, at the southwest corner of Algeria, near the border with Western Sahara. It is the only film festival in the world held in a refugee camp.[1][2] The first festival was in large part organised by Peruvian film director Javier Corcuera.[3]

For its first three years, FiSahara was held alternately in the Wilaya of Smara, the Wilaya of Ausserd, and the Wilaya of El Aaiún. Since 2007, the festival has been staged in the Wilaya of Dajla. The event is backed by the Polisario Front,[3] but largely organised and funded by donors from Spain, the former colonial power in Western Sahara. The festival has attracted support from Spanish film celebrities, including Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, and Pedro Almodóvar.[citation needed] Musicians like Fermín Muguruza,[4][5] Manu Chao,[2] Macaco,[6] Iván Ferreiro,[7] El Chojin[8] and Tomasito[9] have performed in concerts during the festival.

FiSahara is billed as an initiative to bring film as an entertainment and cultural form to the thousands of Sahrawis who live in the Algerian desert. It also aims to provide cultural entertainment and educational opportunities to the refugees.

In 2010, a twinning agreement was signed between the FiSahara and the San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival.[10]

White Camel winners

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Not to be confused with White Camel award.

The White Camel (Arabic: الجمل الأبيض) is the festival's top prize, awarded for the best film by election of the spectators.[11] It consists of a white female camel, which is traditionally donated to the refugee family who hosted the actors or director of the winning film during the festival. The winners receive a trophy depicting a white camel and a desert rose.

Year Date Film Nationality Director
2003 20–23 November The Living Forest  Spain Ángel de la Cruz
Manolo Gómez
2004 December (Not Held) N/A N/A N/A
2005 3–6 March Madame Brouette  Senegal
 France
 Canada		 Moussa Sene Absa
2006 5–9 April The Story of the Weeping Camel  Mongolia
 Germany		 Byambasuren Davaa
Luigi Farloni
2007 10–15 April Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest  France
 Belgium
 Spain
 Italy		 Michel Ocelot
2008 17–20 April It's a Free World...  United Kingdom Ken Loach
2009 5–10 May Che: Part 2  United States
 Spain
 France		 Steven Soderbergh
2010 26 April-2 May The Problem  Spain Jordi Ferrer
Pablo Vidal
2011 2–8 May Entrelobos  Spain
 Germany		 Gerardo Olivares
2012 1–6 May Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony  Spain Alvaro Longoria
2013 8–13 October Mayibuye I  South Africa Milly Moabl
2014 29 April–4 May Legna: Habla el Verso Saharaui[12]  Sahrawi Republic
 Spain		 Juan Robles
Bahia Awah
Juan Carlos Gimeno
2015 28 April-3 May Granito: How to Nail a Dictator  United States Pamela Yates
2016 11–16 October Ladjouad  Sahrawi Republic Brahim Chegaf
2022 11–16 October[13] Wanibik, the people who live in front of their land[14]  Algeria Rabeh Slimani
2024 29 Abril – 5 May[15] 200 meters  Palestine Ameen Nayfeh, Ahmad Al-Bazz

Guest country

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In some years, the festival has chosen a country to be a guest in the event. In such cases, films from the guest country are screened, and related events take place along with the other acts in the festival.

Year Guest Country
2006  Cuba[16][17]
2009  Algeria[18][19]
2010  South Africa[20][21]
2011  Venezuela[22][23]
2012  Mexico[24][25]
2013  United States[26]
2014  South Africa[27]
2023  Spain[1]
[edit]
  • "FiSahara, International Film Festival, Festival international de Cine". fisahara.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  • "Objective FiSahara English" (PDF). donostia.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-12. Retrieved 22 December 2023. The International Sahara Film Festival (FISahara), which began in 2002, is a personal initiative inspired by the President of the State Coordinator of Associated Friends of the Sahara (CEAS), who, without a doubt, discovered how to generate a current of enthusiasm and cohesion among the various active parties within Spanish cinema. 24-page book about the FiSahara festival, with texts by Javier Bardem, Javier Corcuera, Eduardo Galeano, Juan Carlos Izagirre, Paul Laverty, and others.
  • Bollero Real, David. "Sáhara Occidental: La Revolución del Cine o el Cine de la Revolución (translation: West Sahara: Revolution of the Cinema or Cinema of the Revolution)" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  • Simanowitz, Stefan (May 3, 2009). ""The Devil's Garden": Preview of the Sahara Film Festival". prospectmagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  • Simanowitz, Stefan; Santaolalla, Isabel. "A Cinematic Refuge in the Desert: The FiSahara Film Festival (from St Andrew's University's Film Festival Yearbook 2011)". scribd.com. Scribd.Inc (digital document library), San Francisco, USA. Retrieved 22 December 2023. During the 1960s, when decolonisation movements were sweeping the world, there was a joke that, after achieving independence, a country had to do three things: design a flag, launch an airline and found a film festival (Rich 1999: 79). Western Sahara has a flag but no airline and, despite a struggle that has lasted over three decades, it has yet to achieve independence. The closest Western Sahara comes to its own film festival is Festival Internacional de Cine del Sahara (FISahara) (www.festivalsahara.com), a festival like no other that takes place in a refugee camp in the middle of the desert.

References

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  1. ^ a b "FiSahara, International Film Festival, Festival international de Cine". fisahara.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Con la presencia di Javier Bardem. Comienza 'Fisahara 2008', el único festival de cine en un campo de refugiados". El Mundo (in Spanish). Mundinteractivos, S.A. 18 April 2008. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  3. ^ a b Laverty, Paul (March 2004). "First International Sahara Film Festival". Review of African Political Economy. 31 (99): 175–180. Archived from the original on 2004-11-07. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  4. ^ Me gusta el Sáhara, me gustas tú Archived 2013-10-12 at the Wayback Machine Cine entre las dunas – El País, 23 April 2008 (in Spanish)
  5. ^ Festival Internacional de Cine del Sahara (FiSahara) 2009 Radiochango.com (in Spanish)
  6. ^ Macaco actuará en la clausura del VI Festival Internacional de Cine Del Sahara (FiSAHARA) Archived 2013-07-04 at the Wayback Machine Macaco.es, 7 May 2009 (in Spanish)
  7. ^ Ivan Ferreiro corona el desierto El Mundo, 3 May 2010 (in Spanish)
  8. ^ El Chojin en FISAHARA 2011 Elchojin.net, 12 April 2011 (in Spanish)
  9. ^ El Canijo de Jerez y Tomasito en el Festival de Cine del Sahara Inzona.es, 1 May 2012 (in Spanish)
  10. ^ Objective Fisahara: Twinning between the San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival and the Sahara International Film Festival, seen in pictures and first-hand accounts Archived 2013-10-11 at archive.today Donostia.org
  11. ^ Additional festival events Festivalsahara.com
  12. ^ ""Legna" film wins first award of FiSahara". Sahara Press Service. 4 May 2014. Archived from the original on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  13. ^ "Announcement of return of "Fi-Sahara" Film Festival in its 17th edition". www.spsrasd.info. October 8, 2022. Archived from the original on October 8, 2022. Retrieved October 8, 2022.
  14. ^ "Wanibik, by the Algerian Rabah Slimani, wins the White Camel at the 17 edition of FiSahara". Fisahara. October 15, 2022. Archived from the original on January 28, 2023. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
  15. ^ "FiSahara 2024 embraces Palestine and awards the film '200 meters' with the White Camel". FI-Sahara. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  16. ^ Cuba: país invitado en el III Festival Internacional de Cine del Sahara Somosjovenes.cu (in Spanish)
  17. ^ Cuba será el país invitado en el III Festival Internacional de Cine del Sahara Rebelion.org, 13 March 2006 (in Spanish)
  18. ^ Arranca FiSahara 09 FiSahara.blogspot.com.es, 23 March 2009 (in Spanish)
  19. ^ FISAHARA 09 Archived 2014-03-27 at the Wayback Machine Vivir bien es un placer!!! (¡Hola!), 21 April 2009 (in Spanish)
  20. ^ El FCAT con el pueblo saharaui en el FiSahara 2010 Archived 2012-07-08 at the Wayback Machine African Film Festival of Tarifa (in Spanish)
  21. ^ FiSahara, el festival de cine que se celebra en un campamento de refugiados 20 minutos, 12 April 2010 (in Spanish)
  22. ^ Concluye el FiSahara 2011: entre el cine y la reivindicación Archived 2014-04-13 at the Wayback Machine Radio Netherlands Worldwide, 9 May 2011 (in Spanish)
  23. ^ FiSahara: cine bajo las estrellas ABC, 4 May 2011 (in Spanish)
  24. ^ "No conseguirán atemorizar al FiSahara" Público (EFE), 2 May 2012 (in Spanish)
  25. ^ La delegación de México en el FiSahara afirma su determinación de romper el silencio informativo en el Sáhara Occidental Archived 2014-04-13 at the Wayback Machine Sahara Press Service, 3 May 2012 (in Spanish)
  26. ^ Decade after: FiSahara achieved international status, confirms Saharawi Culture Minister Archived 2014-04-13 at the Wayback Machine Sahara Press Service, 10 July 2013
  27. ^ South Africa guest of honor of FiSahara 2014 and Nelson Mandela honored in the occasion SADR Permanent Mission in Ethiopia and African Union, 9 April 2014
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