Refugee Movies

A portrait of a refugee’s fight for survival and belonging in the world.

Swan is a lonely Serbian refugee in Belgrade. He hopes for a visa to follow his long-lost fiancée to Chicago, but winds up at the Happy...

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

Rocky is a talented boxer, but is forced to quit boxing for being an asylum seeker. Rocky starts a new life when his coach tries to build him a...

In the autumn of 2015, Finnish-Iranian Ali Jahangiri wanted to personally experience the reality faced by refugees in Europe. Ali travelled across...

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...

A woman reads the newspaper with such intensity that she gets literally devoured by it. Painted on its pages she witnesses some of the tragic events...

Firas, Jallow and Batoul just arrived in Berlin. They meet one another in a theatre group. They are searching for the good life in Germany - yet...

The documentary tells the story of one day in Smara, a refugee camp in the south of Algeria. A handmade symbolic toke takes us through the lives of...

Girt By Sea is a cinematic love letter to the coastline of Australia - a poetic celebration of our connection to the sea as documented through...

An escaped asylum seeker encounters an Aboriginal man on a remote Australian beach. She must decide whether...

13-year-old Khodor is a child whose family tries to issue him an ID document that proves his existence and gives him the right to education,...

In the near future: Europe is in chaos. Right-wing extremists have taken power in many countries. The democratic state that once was Germany has...

Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.

To cool the heat on the asylum debate - the biggest 'hot potato' in Australian politics, we took a hot potato food van around the country in the lead...

Adapting to her new home in Melbourne, Vietnam War immigrant Hanh (9 years old) mistakes the cunningness of her new “friends” as an act...

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

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

Our once beautiful homeland had become uninhabitable. Too dangerous to walk the streets, drive a car, visit friends. Many had already left Syria....

The remarkable story of Jelena Dokic – an elite tennis star who beat the best in the world with a mental toughness few could match. Jelena...