Refugee Movies

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

A Nigerian refugee struggles to integrate into Australian society after escaping the clutches of Boko Haram, until he meets a woman who opens her...

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,...

In 2015, the Syrian boy Aylan appeared dead on the beach in Bodrum, Turkey. The image shocked and alerted the world to the refugee crisis. The film...

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 elderly widow finds an unexpected visitor, a young asylum-seeking girl, in her home during dinner. Inspired by a 2012 event, whereby 40 Burmese...

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...

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

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,...

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

Based on a true story, teenage, Muslim refugee girls in burkinis take a fantastical swimming lesson in Idaho. The initiative for swimming lessons...

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...

“The European Dream: Serbia” is an investigative documentary by journalist Jaime Alekos about the tortures of Hungarian police to the...

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

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

In the aftermath of war, an extraordinary professor brings hope to children haunted by trauma-induced nightmares.

It focuses on Ana, the wife of tycoon Sašo. When her husband gets in trouble and disappears, she realizes she does not know anything about her...