Refugees Movies

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

Marie, in her forties, lives in the Hautes-Alpes, cut off from her relatives. She only has her lover, Alex, a border policeman. Thanks to him, she...

Tells the story of climate refugees across six continents, celebrating the voices and experiences of people living at the forefront of the climate...

Successful model Samira Hashi makes an emotional return to Somalia, one of the most dangerous places in the world and the place she was born.

Outaouais, summer 1996. Solange, a 23-year-old Rwandan refugee, finds political asylum in Hull with her four-year-old daughter Lisa. Their...

Those who do not know the Sahara think there is only sand in the desert. But in the desert there are children who play and draw and make movies, and...

Two young university students wish to escape the oppressive Soviet Union. But their plans are monitored by the KGB, who try to intimidate them. One...

After 30 years of conspiracy theories and myth making, this film uncovers the story of the CIA's most extensive clandestine operation in the history...

It is a daring idea: to grow food from old mattresses in a desolate camp at the edge of a war zone. When a refugee scientist meets two quirky...

In every act of compassion, a foreign place becomes home.

In 2032 an eight-year old boy, displaced by global warming, fends for himself as an environmental refugee in a hostile northern metropolis. Haunted...

An Afghan peasant family gets caught up in the turmoils during the Russian occupation. The shepherd find a wounded mujahideen and carries him home....

Bobbing around on Mediterranean waters aboard the Ocean Viking, aid workers from the French relief service SOS Méditerranée gaze at the...

On Our Doorstep delves deep into an aspect of the refugee crisis that rarely reached the press. With NGOs being blocked by red tape and the absence...

A family with five children flees the war raging in their home village on the Russian border. They end up in Mshanets, a farming village on the other...

Five lives, one city, the fate of a nation. A civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance committee volunteer and two street boys. Five stories from...

Spanish actor Pepe Viyuela embarks on a personal journey on the trail of his grandfather Gervasio, a soldier in the Republican Army during the...

Here in Toronto, four young Somali refugees are finishing high school. What did they bring with them? What did they find in Canada? Their...

'Migrating Fears' is a docu-drama on the sentiments around migration, both from the side of the refugees and asylum-seekers as well as from the...