Refugee Movies

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

Claire Denis goes to Eastern Chad to the Breidjing camp, the home of 40,000 refugees from Darfur. With great humility, she tells the stories of these...

An unusual friendship in an agitated political context.

There are more refugees in the world today than at any point in history. And half of them are children. Let Me In is a cinematic experience which...

A gay artist flees the repressive laws and war in Russia to go to Berlin, leaving his boyfriend behind. Meanwhile, life in Berlin turns out to be...

Via Dolorosa captures director’s journey in reconnecting with Vietnamese homeless persons whom she filmed for another short film two years ago....

In March 2001, the ruling Taliban destroyed Afghanistan's foremost tourist attraction, the 1600 year-old Buddhas of Bamiyan. This film follows the...

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

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

A short archival documentary exploring how people come to the UK in search of a better life, only to find that the reality often falls short of their...

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

Α quarter of the global population of school age lives in war zones or disaster areas. Fewer than one in four underage refugees attends...

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...

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.

Striving to build a successful life in London, Reza places an ad in a peculiar newspaper and discovers the Iranian community hidden in plain sight....

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...

Since 24 February 2022, when the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, several million refugees have already been taken in by Poles. In the Lublin...

“Leaving” follows a day in the life of two refugee women while listening to their story of fleeing war torn Congo. Juxtaposing daily life...