Refugee Movies

Peter LeDonne and Steve Kalafer chronicle the extraordinary life of Immaculée Ilibagiza, a young African woman who escaped genocide in Rwanda...

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

The lives of four Syrian families, resettled in Baltimore and under a deadline to become self-sufficient in eight months.

In search of the lucrative matsutake mushroom, two former soldiers discover the means to gradually heal their wounds of war. Roger, a self-described...

A young cleaning girl's day turns upside down when she finds the gripping journal of a refugee.

A group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws.

Mohammad is a young asylum seeker from Pakistan. To make a living, he works illegally as a night delivery worker. He strives for a better life in a...

July 1972 in Iran. Mohammed is arrested for illegal spreading of flyers. He is put in jail and tortured. After one year he is released and flees to...

Three juxtaposing stories taking place in Portugal, Austria and Cuba create an intimate and poetic portrait of the daily lives and struggles of the...

Avi Mograbi documents an Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers’ theatre workshop taking place in an immigration detention centre. In the...

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat...

Amine Diare Conde fled from Guinea to Europe at the age of fifteen. His voluntary work makes the 22-year-old the best-known asylum seeker in...

After her husband is abducted in Kashmir, a traumatised woman flees to the United States with her young son to rebuild their lives.

This is a true story about forty Jewish children on their way to Palestine, who were blocked by the German and Italian occupation of Yugoslavia in...

A glance at the divided U.S. political system through the eyes of a young Syrian refugee on the streets of Memphis, TN, as he faces the harsh...

Hum lives in a refugee camp near Hamburg. He loves films and finances his visits to the cinema by selling lost properties from cinema visits in the...

In a new land where everyone receives a new name and begins again without a past, Simón takes responsibility for David, a child he met on the...

During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Constantinople where they marry and begin a...

The film provides a historical overview of the history of the Palestinians between 1948-1974 and shows the living conditions of Palestinians in...

Before the eyes of the Sudanese Ahmed (25), the war broke out in full force. He decides to flee on foot to the Netherlands alone, to be able to live...