Refugee Movies

  • 2007
    Jerusalem... The East Side Story

    Jerusalem... The East Side Story

    Jerusalem... The East Side Story

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    The film documents Palestinian everyday's life under Isreali occupation in East Jerusalem. It uncovers Isreals policy of judaizing the city in order...

    Jerusalem... The East Side Story
  • 1985
    Amir: An Afghan Refugee Musician's Life in Peshawar, Pakistan

    Amir: An Afghan Refugee Musician's Life in Peshawar, Pakistan

    Amir: An Afghan Refugee Musician's Life in Peshawar, Pakistan

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    Amir, shot during the height of the Afghan civil war in the 1980s, investigates and portrays the life of Afghan refugees living in and around the...

    Amir: An Afghan Refugee Musician's Life in Peshawar, Pakistan
  • 2015
    Refugee: The Eritrean Exodus

    Refugee: The Eritrean Exodus

    Refugee: The Eritrean Exodus

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    Follow Chris Cotter, an American traveler, as he explores a common migration path through Ethiopia and into Israel, tracking the plight of Eritrean...

    Refugee: The Eritrean Exodus
  • 2022
    Land of empty promises

    Land of empty promises

    Land of empty promises

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    Land of empty promises
  • 2019
    A Queer Refugee’s Suitcase

    A Queer Refugee’s Suitcase

    A Queer Refugee’s Suitcase

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    The story of a young gay man who faced persecution due to his sexuality and made a frightening journey to the UK with just a suitcase.

    A Queer Refugee’s Suitcase
  • 2012
    Impossible Exchange

    Impossible Exchange

    Impossible Exchange

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    A conversation between two strangers: one is ashore and the other is on the sea. The conversation’s depth coincides with the height of the...

    Impossible Exchange
  • 2016
    Unknown Refugee

    Unknown Refugee

    Unknown Refugee

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    In the autumn of 2015, Finnish-Iranian Ali Jahangiri wanted to personally experience the reality faced by refugees in Europe. Ali travelled across...

    Unknown Refugee
  • 2016
    Refugee Blues

    Refugee Blues

    Refugee Blues

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    Set to the verses of W.H. Auden’s 1939 poem, the film charts an intimate day in ‘the jungle’ of the refugee camp outside Calais,...

    Refugee Blues
  • 2018
    Crossing Borders

    Crossing Borders

    Crossing Borders

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    Escaping a refugee life from war-torn Syria sparks hope for a family looking to adapt to an American life.

    Crossing Borders
  • 2017
    The Lost Kids of Calais

    The Lost Kids of Calais

    The Lost Kids of Calais

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    Rafi, Salman, Said and Ali are all under 18 years old. They come from Afghanistan, Syria and Pakistan. After months of wandering, fleeing wars in...

    The Lost Kids of Calais
  • 2018
    Survive or Die

    Survive or Die

    Survive or Die

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    After a civil war erupts, killing her entire family, 16-year-old Shade escapes to Australia on a refugee boat helmed by the captain of a people...

    Survive or Die
  • 2016
    Meteor Street

    Meteor Street

    Meteor Street

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    Mohammed, an 18-year old refugee, lives with his chaotic older brother Lakhdar in a rundown apartment in Berlin. Several years after his family fled...

    Meteor Street
  • 2020
    Something from there

    Something from there

    Something from there

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    Something from there is a short film on the substance of our original lands. Weaving between the voices of the artist’s parents, one a refugee...

    Something from there
  • 2016
    Freedom Runners

    Freedom Runners

    Freedom Runners

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    Rotem Genossar, a teacher at the Bialik-Rogozin campus in south Tel Aviv, founds a running group for his students, young African refugees whose...

    Freedom Runners
  • 2015
    The Wind

    The Wind

    The Wind

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    The tragedy of the Syrian people: War, conflict, loss, migration, exile, asylum, detention, drowning… A deserted place. Abandoned people....

    The Wind
  • 2022
    Leaving

    Leaving

    Leaving

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    “Leaving” follows a day in the life of two refugee women while listening to their story of fleeing war torn Congo. Juxtaposing daily life...

    Leaving
  • 2020
    Mirage

    Mirage

    Mirage

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    Mali - Algeria - Libya - Italy. Issa’s escape from West Africa to the European mainland lasted ten years. Everything was supposed to be better...

    Mirage
  • 2020
    Link

    Link

    Link

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    Two boys meet in a park. There is a barrier between them. Their friendship will reveal it.

    Link
  • 2016
    Because I am

    Because I am

    Because I am

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    Based on a poem by a Zimbabwean LGBT activist written in response to the gay hate speech that is being perpetuated president Robert Mugabe. The film...

    Because I am
  • 2019
    Displacement and Resilience

    Displacement and Resilience

    Displacement and Resilience

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    The documentary is a five country-based sequences featuring stories about conflict, migration and the experience of exile; Tibetan women refugees in...

    Displacement and Resilience