Refugee Movies

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

Humiliation and violence punctuate the life of this broken man. The silence's his refuge, the perversion his outlet.

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...

Moving to Mars charts the epic journey made by two Burmese families from a vast refugee camp on the Thai/Burma border to their new homes in the UK....

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.

When this film’s director was still a boy, he stood in front of “Flotel Europa“ and was hugely excited about the prospect of this...

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...

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

More than a quarter of a million Syrian refugee children live in Istanbul, Turkey. Not all of them have access to education. Two sisters decide to...

A documentary film crew follows a young Iranian girl, Roya, after her request for asylum was denied and is forced to enter an illegal life on streets...

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

Set during the time of the Red Terror war in 1970's in Ethiopia, the country's political tyranny has created huge population of refugees searching...

Residents of a Melbourne social housing community strive to reclaim their own hope and identity in the face of recent deaths and a larger societal...

Greece is in crisis. But the economic crisis is not the only one. An asylum crisis has gripped the country at this time of severe austerity. And it...

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,...

Inspired by the life and poetry of Sargon Boulos, this film explores exile, memory, and the enduring connection between a person and their homeland.

The construction of a boat on the island of Anjouan, used to transport migrants over 70km to the island of Mayotte – the outermost region of...

Each year 400.000 people from Africa, Asia and Middle East, try to enter Europe. They flee from war, persecution and poverty. Since the ways by land...