Lives on pause

Lives on pause (2006)

January 1st, 20060h 17min

Documentary
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Every year, approximately 800 Sahrawi boys and girls leave the refugee camps to study in Cuba, Algeria and Libya… 15 years later, they return biologists, doctors, engineers… but when they get back to the refugee camps all they have is the desert…


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