Refugee Movies

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

This feature documentary follows three newly arrived people in Canada and their experiences with the Canadian Refugee process. As claims are assessed...

Refugees in a post-apocalyptic future, two sisters must make the ultimate decision: one or both will die.

A group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws.

In 2009 the Norwegian government introduced several measures to restrict immigration. One of the measures was to provide unaccompanied asylum seeking...

When a soccer club manager brings one of his injured foreign players home to recuperate, they form an unlikely bond despite their cultural...

After years of working abroad, Mirjana returns to her small conservative village in the Dalmatian Hinterland, with her parents welcoming her with...

After years working as a border patrolman, José has developed a salty crust of cynicism about his work, which places him in a position to...

After living undocumented in the UK for two years, Nigerian migrant Isio is caught and sent to the Hatchworth Removal Centre. She hopes for a fair...

An estimated 12 million people live in refugee camps worldwide and only 0.1% are resettled, repatriated, or integrated into normal society each year....

Two young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship.

Avi Mograbi documents an Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers’ theatre workshop taking place in an immigration detention centre. In the...

Fact-based World War II story set on Christmas Eve, 1944, finds a German Mother and her son seeking refuge in a cabin on the war front. When she is...

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...

In a new land where everyone receives a new name and begins again without a past, Simón takes responsibility for David, a child he met on the...

An actress used to playing only bit parts becomes the center of attention when a movie director buys her life story as a film project, she is now...

July 1972 in Iran. Mohammed is arrested for illegal spreading of flyers. He is put in jail and tortured. After one year he is released and flees to...

Mohammed, an 18-year old refugee, lives with his chaotic older brother Lakhdar in a rundown apartment in Berlin. Several years after his family fled...

The woman known as "Jenny" decides to take justice for refugees in Europe into her own hands.

After her husband is abducted in Kashmir, a traumatised woman flees to the United States with her young son to rebuild their lives.