Refugee Movies

Ali, a Kurdish refugee, travels to Athens in search of his missing brother. He discovers that his brother paid to be smuggled into Italy but then...

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...

The beautiful and spoilt Yerusalem had a wonderful life in Paris as the wife of the Eritrean Ambassador. Due to political changes, her husband is...

Amal, a 13-year-old refugee from Lebanon, deals drugs in the Hannover subway system. He lives an isolated life in an asylum home outside the city...

Documentary that follows the lives of several Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII.

A refugee falling in love. "Ghabe" follows a Syrian refugee during the summer of the 2015 migration as he falls in love with a majestic forest in...

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

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

As the war wages on, Ukrainians under everyday threat find ways to live. A soldier returns home, a chaplain grapples with the weight of...

Ben, an Iranian refugee and rideshare driver in Los Angeles, becomes entangled in a criminal underground when a passenger asks him to help save her...

Drawing inspiration from his personal encounter with the Italian refugee child Giovanna during World War II, Markus Imhoof tells how refugees and...

Anna, a young photojournalist from Berlin, travels to Serbia to make a photo documentary about refugees. Upon her arrival to Belgrade, Serbia's...

While Guillermo tries to fix his romantic life making a film about it, he will discover another reality through Samir, a Syrian refugee, who will...

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

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...

While millions of birds migrate freely in the skies above, Fadia, a Palestinian refugee stranded in Lebanon, yearns for the ancestral homeland she is...

This feature documentary tells the stories of 5 asylum seekers who flee their native countries to escape homophobic violence. They face hurdles...

REFUGEE CONVERSATIONS / PAKOLAISKESKUSTELUJA is a 90-minute documentary film. Its themes are: refugees, racism, xenophobia, Islam, Christianity and...

8-year-old Ali lives in a refugee detention centre with his mother and little sister Fatima. When his mother's precious knitting needles are...