Refugee Movies
- 2013
The New World
The New World4.82013HD
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...
- 2017
Nostalgia
Nostalgia102017HD
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.
- 1987
Santa Fe
Santa Fe7.91987HD
After arriving in 1940 New York, Freddy struggles to find work. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a...
- 2020
Son of the Streets
Son of the Streets02020HD
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,...
- 2020
Volunteer
Volunteer102020HD
A film about the unprecedented Swiss grassroots movement of regular citizens who rise to aid thousands of refugees stranded at the European borders....
- 2007
Lucky Miles
Lucky Miles5.62007HD
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...
- 2024
Alma Anciana
Alma Anciana02024HD
Three juxtaposing stories taking place in Portugal, Austria and Cuba create an intimate and poetic portrait of the daily lives and struggles of the...
- 1998
Kisangani Diary
Kisangani Diary7.51998HD
Along an overgrown rail track south of the Zairean town Kisangani, a UN expedition together with a handful of journalists discover “lost”...
- 2017
Locked In
Locked In02017HD
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,...
- 2015
Open Cage
Open Cage102015HD
Anna, a young photojournalist from Berlin, travels to Serbia to make a photo documentary about refugees. Upon her arrival to Belgrade, Serbia's...
- 2021
Zawal
Zawal62021HD
Eight year-old Adam confronts a mutated world, when he breaks out of the designated quarantine area for refugees.
- 2025
The New Policy Regarding Homeless Asylum Seekers
The New Policy Regarding Homeless Asylum Seekers02025HD
Dublin, June 2024: thousands of men seeking asylum in Ireland are homeless. Olivia and her group of volunteers are trying to find safe locations...
- 2017
Passage of Life
Passage of Life62017HD
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....
- 1998
Asylum
Asylum01998HD
This feature documentary follows three newly arrived people in Canada and their experiences with the Canadian Refugee process. As claims are assessed...
- 2011
That Which Once Was
That Which Once Was02011HD
In 2032 an eight-year old boy, displaced by global warming, fends for himself as an environmental refugee in a hostile northern metropolis. Haunted...
- 2019
Obaida
Obaida02019HD
OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian...
- 2017
Those Who Jump
Those Who Jump62017HD
In northern Morocco lies the Spanish enclave of Melilla: Europe on African Land. On the mountain above live over a thousand hopeful African...
- 1984
Secret Places
Secret Places31984HD
Young girls, soon to be women, sharing everything...except their secret places.
- 2012
Last Chance
Last Chance02012HD
This feature documentary tells the stories of 5 asylum seekers who flee their native countries to escape homophobic violence. They face hurdles...
- 2016
Mare Nostrum
Mare Nostrum12016HD
On a Mediterranean shore, a Syrian father's decision to give his daughter a better life puts her in danger of losing it.