Refugee Movies

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,...

Radi, who leads a reclusive life in his own van, finds himself on a road trip with three strangers, which alters his clockwork and very private...

An hour-long portrait of Canadian immigration lawyer, M. Lee Cohen, renowned for his work with refugees. The film follows his representation of Sonya...

Refugees are captured by border patrol officers as one woman escapes to find herself surviving on her own in a foreign land.

A 6-year-old Tibetan boy leaves his family and flees to a refugee camp in northern India.

​Jelani secretly married a woman from a different tribe. They fled their country in order to avoid being killed. On foot – and every...

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...

An unusual friendship in an agitated political context.

Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit...

Our once beautiful homeland had become uninhabitable. Too dangerous to walk the streets, drive a car, visit friends. Many had already left Syria....

A talking heads documentary about young asylum seekers in the Netherlands, given space to express themselves through art. From poetry and rap to...

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.

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

A movie about sinners and their quest for salvation. But God is hard to find.

During an illegal immigrant smuggling operation on the Croatian-Bosnian border, war veteran and smuggler Mirko saves a seemingly nameless Chinese...

A young Bhutanese refugee’s pursuit of the American Dream is tested by loss, loneliness, and mental health struggles, forcing him to confront...

From 1957 to 1961 170.000 Algerians flee to Tunisia because of the war. Most of them walk by feet across the mountains and the desert, carrying only...