Refugee Movies

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...

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...

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

Documentary about the humanitarian crisis of the refugees between 2015 and 2018

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

Amir, shot during the height of the Afghan civil war in the 1980s, investigates and portrays the life of Afghan refugees living in and around the...

An American veteran of the Vietnam War returns a precious keepsake to the daughter of an enemy solider, 50 years later. The film stars Elyse Dinh, a...

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

"The Boy Of The Fish" follows Noon, a young boy living in a Syrian refugee camp, who finds solace and a sense of freedom in a whale-shaped doll he...

Documentary Film maker, Mark Brown, attempts to discover the damaging effect the over-spilling immigrant population has on the coastal city of...

The film documents Palestinian everyday's life under Isreali occupation in East Jerusalem. It uncovers Isreals policy of judaizing the city in order...

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....

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...

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,...

The lives of two asylum seekers fleeing post-social unrest in their home city intertwine in Britain, starting a romance that tests their resilience...

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...

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...

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...

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

Powerfully and heartbreakingly detailing the challenging process that LGBTQ refugees must go through to find safety and security while starting over...