
Imagine Sleeping at Home
Saharawi refugee children grow up in camps in the Algerian desert, displaced by Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara, and this film asks them what they expect from the future, including the possibility of renewed war. Soldiers, mothers, and doctors describe what it takes to raise or treat children under those conditions, from makeshift clinics to households built around waiting for a war that never quite ends. One thread follows children who were jailed for painting Saharawi flags, a detail that says plainly what political expression costs in the occupied territory versus the camps. The film keeps its focus on daily life rather than politics as spectacle: what children draw, what they say about home, what the adults around them are willing to fight for. It has traveled the human rights festival circuit, picking up awards in Chile and Indonesia, and its subject remains one of Africa's longest-running unresolved territorial disputes, still unresolved for the generation born entirely inside the refugee camps.