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Dec 20, 2003 · Made by the Polish-born and British-educated director Pawel Pawlikowski, Last Resort (BBC, 2000) deals with a Russian woman-artist, Tanya, who, accompanied by her 10-year old son Artyom comes to Britain to unite with her British fiancé, and ends up as a “refugee by mistake” in a detention camp.
Jun 7, 2023 · While no single movie can capture the full experience of every refugee, these films offer a window into a world that can seem so foreign and far away. And what better way to humanize refugees than through the lens of a well-told story?
Nov 7, 2014 · The Good Lie: Directed by Philippe Falardeau. With Reese Witherspoon, Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Emmanuel Jal. A group of Sudanese refugees, given the chance to resettle in the U.S., arrive in Kansas City, Missouri, where their encounter with an employment agency counselor forever changes all of their lives.
- Flee. Flee, an animated docudrama directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen about the true story of a young Afghan refugee’s escape from Afghanistan, has just made history.
- Simple As Water. From a port in Greece, to an orphanage in Turkey, to Germany and the United States, Oscar shortlist documentary Simple As Water provides intimate vignettes into the lives of four Syrian families that have been displaced and separated by over a decade of conflict.
- Encanto. Encant o, Disney’s new Oscar-nominated hit animation, is striking a chord with Latin Americans and refugees around the world. The beautifully animated story features the Madrigal family who live in an enchanted village in Colombia.
- Captains of Za’atari. Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan is the largest Syrian refugee camp in the world, home to about 80,000 people. Ali El Arabi, the director of Captains of Za’atari, describes it as a place, “poor in opportunities, but rich in dreams.”
Jul 29, 2021 · Although the protagonists of Last Resort are ‘refugees by mistake’, both films explore the cruelties of a system that refuses asylum claimants the right to work for as long as their case is being heard, which can take months, if not years.
3 days ago · The film’s stylistic singularity won’t come as a surprise to those who saw Deshe’s 2013 debut feature “White Shadow,” a kinetic study of albino persecution in Central Africa that won him ...
Feb 16, 2022 · Director Jonas Poher Rasmussen's film, the true story of a gay Afghan man's flight from war-torn Kabul to his eventual refuge in Copenhagen, is a carefully calibrated, compassionate work that's moving and deeply personal.
