Refugee Movies

  • 2013
    The New World

    The New World

    The New World

    4.82013HD

    Mirte is a cleaner in the reception centre for asylum seekers at the airport. She tries to forget her past through routine. When the charismatic West...

    The New World
  • 2017
    Nostalgia

    Nostalgia

    Nostalgia

    102017HD

    After 21 years I return to my city of birth in order to find out what would have occured to my family if we hadn't fled the war.

    Nostalgia
  • 1987
    Santa Fe

    Santa Fe

    Santa Fe

    7.91987HD

    After arriving in 1940 New York, Freddy struggles to find work. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a...

    Santa Fe
  • 2020
    Son of the Streets

    Son of the Streets

    Son of the Streets

    02020HD

    13-year-old Khodor is a child whose family tries to issue him an ID document that proves his existence and gives him the right to education,...

    Son of the Streets
  • 2020
    Volunteer

    Volunteer

    Volunteer

    102020HD

    A film about the unprecedented Swiss grassroots movement of regular citizens who rise to aid thousands of refugees stranded at the European borders....

    Volunteer
  • 2007
    Lucky Miles

    Lucky Miles

    Lucky Miles

    5.62007HD

    It's 1990 and an Indonesian fishing boat abandons Iraqi and Cambodian refugees in a remote part of the Western Australia. Although most are quickly...

    Lucky Miles
  • 2024
    Alma Anciana

    Alma Anciana

    Alma Anciana

    02024HD

    Three juxtaposing stories taking place in Portugal, Austria and Cuba create an intimate and poetic portrait of the daily lives and struggles of the...

    Alma Anciana
  • 1998
    Kisangani Diary

    Kisangani Diary

    Kisangani Diary

    7.51998HD

    Along an overgrown rail track south of the Zairean town Kisangani, a UN expedition together with a handful of journalists discover “lost”...

    Kisangani Diary
  • 2017
    Locked In

    Locked In

    Locked In

    02017HD

    Samira and Nazim, asylum seekers who fled after torture find themselves in the UK again detained by the state. They are on the fast track system,...

    Locked In
  • 2015
    Open Cage

    Open Cage

    Open Cage

    102015HD

    Anna, a young photojournalist from Berlin, travels to Serbia to make a photo documentary about refugees. Upon her arrival to Belgrade, Serbia's...

    Open Cage
  • 2021
    Zawal

    Zawal

    Zawal

    62021HD

    Eight year-old Adam confronts a mutated world, when he breaks out of the designated quarantine area for refugees.

    Zawal
  • 2025
    The New Policy Regarding Homeless Asylum Seekers

    The New Policy Regarding Homeless Asylum Seekers

    The New Policy Regarding Homeless Asylum Seekers

    02025HD

    Dublin, June 2024: thousands of men seeking asylum in Ireland are homeless. Olivia and her group of volunteers are trying to find safe locations...

    The New Policy Regarding Homeless Asylum Seekers
  • 2017
    Passage of Life

    Passage of Life

    Passage of Life

    62017HD

    Burmese boy Kaung and his family emigrated to Japan with the hope for a better life. They have lived in Tokyo for years, but never obtained a visum....

    Passage of Life
  • 1998
    Asylum

    Asylum

    Asylum

    01998HD

    This feature documentary follows three newly arrived people in Canada and their experiences with the Canadian Refugee process. As claims are assessed...

    Asylum
  • 2011
    That Which Once Was

    That Which Once Was

    That Which Once Was

    02011HD

    In 2032 an eight-year old boy, displaced by global warming, fends for himself as an environmental refugee in a hostile northern metropolis. Haunted...

    That Which Once Was
  • 2019
    Obaida

    Obaida

    Obaida

    02019HD

    OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian...

    Obaida
  • 2017
    Those Who Jump

    Those Who Jump

    Those Who Jump

    62017HD

    In northern Morocco lies the Spanish enclave of Melilla: Europe on African Land. On the mountain above live over a thousand hopeful African...

    Those Who Jump
  • 1984
    Secret Places

    Secret Places

    Secret Places

    31984HD

    Young girls, soon to be women, sharing everything...except their secret places.

    Secret Places
  • 2012
    Last Chance

    Last Chance

    Last Chance

    02012HD

    This feature documentary tells the stories of 5 asylum seekers who flee their native countries to escape homophobic violence. They face hurdles...

    Last Chance
  • 2016
    Mare Nostrum

    Mare Nostrum

    Mare Nostrum

    12016HD

    On a Mediterranean shore, a Syrian father's decision to give his daughter a better life puts her in danger of losing it.

    Mare Nostrum