El futuro del último pub que queda, The Old Oak, en un pueblo del noreste de Inglaterra, donde la gente está abandonando la tierra a medida que se cierran las minas. Las casas son baratas y están disponibles, por lo que es un lugar ideal para los refugiados sirios.
En este drama divertido y emotivo, un músico sirio y sus compañeros refugiados son enviados a una isla remota mientras esperan las respuestas a sus solicitudes de asilo.
Después de mudarse a París para estudiar en la universidad, Leevi regresa a su Finlandia natal durante el Verano para ayudar a su padre separado a renovar la casa del lago de la familia para que pueda venderse. Tareq, un solicitante de asilo reciente de Siria, ha sido contratado para ayudar con el trabajo, y cuando el padre de Leevi tiene que regresar a la ciudad por negocios, los dos jóvenes establecen una conexión embarcándose en un romance ambientado en el idílico Verano finlandés. Sin embargo, se cierne sobre este encuentro casual el inminente regreso del padre a la casa del lago, la continuación de los estudios de Leevi en el extranjero y la compleja relación de Tareq con su familia en Siria.
Marius is a highly successful lawyer based in Vilnius. He becomes obsessed with Ali, a handsome Syrian refugee he first encounters in an online chatroom run out of Belgrade. Marius is rich and enjoys a vibrant social and cultural life. Nevertheless, he feels that something is missing from it. The journey from Lithuania to Serbia is a relatively short one, but can the two navigate their way through the gulf that separates their very different lives? And how do they deal with the precarious obstacles of the physical borders that stand between them? Written and directed by Romas Zabarauskas, The Lawyer questions assumptions about what it means to be an immigrant and the possibilities offered by life in contemporary Europe.
Hamid is part of a secret group pursuing the Syrian regime’s fugitive leaders. His mission takes him to France, on the trail of his former torturer whom he must confront.
Pensioner Roli comes to Fareed's assistance when the Syrian refugee is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife. Together they stumble into a bewildering forest of Swiss bureaucracy to which Roli finds beautifully simple answer.
Un pianista trata de escapar de la persecución a la que es sometido en su ciudad de Oriente Medio, donde la música y las modernas maneras de vivir han sido prohibidas por los líderes islamistas extremistas.
Desde que comenzara la guerra civil en Siria unos cuatro millones de sirios han tenido que abandonar el país huyendo de la violencia. Más de la mitad de ellos son niños. “2016. Nacido en Siria” narra el periplo de esos refugiados desde el punto de vista de los niños que viven este calvario: los abusos de las mafias, las inclemencias del mar, la incertidumbre sobre un futuro al que la gran mayoría se enfrenta apenas con lo puesto, y descubriremos que llegar a su destino es sólo el comienzo de una nueva odisea: la de la integración en una tierra nueva y, en muchos casos, hostil. El mayor éxodo de refugiados desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial visto a un metro y medio de altura a través de siete historias de guerra, sufrimiento y desesperación… pero también de superación, inocencia, valor y esperanza, que nos permitirán entender qué significa haber nacido en Siria.
Una mirada al dividido sistema político estadounidense a través de los ojos de un joven refugiado sirio en las calles de Memphis, TN, mientras se enfrenta a las duras realidades de perseguir el sueño americano.
Asil is a young Syrian refugee awaiting documents in Turkey while processing the trauma of losing her home and family. Her story gives voice to a charming gigantic puppet named Amal, who represents millions of migrant and displaced children in a walk from the Syrian border in Turkey all the way across Europe. Escorted and animated by a group of puppeteers who are themselves refugees, Amal’s epic journey is one of compassion and discovery.
When a banker invites a sex worker to his London apartment, he finds himself coming face to face with both his own past, and one of the world's largest humanitarian crises.
On a Mediterranean shore, a Syrian father's decision to give his daughter a better life puts her in danger of losing it.
Aporia tells the story of someone caught in the midst of cultural, religious, ethnic, and national conflict. After fleeing Syria, Haleem hopes to bring his wife and children and settle in Germany. During a layover in South Korea, he is found in possession of a fake passport. Haleem then finds himself struggling in an unfamiliar country, taking illegal and illicit work in the hopes of being reunited with his family…
Ekhlas Alhlwani was forced to flee Syria with her three children and now lives in Zaatari, a refugee camp in the Jordanian desert. Rizzi spent seven weeks observing her and other women's daily life, which is devoid of any prospects. He shows how Alhlwani makes every effort to establish some kind of normality for her family despite the difficult camp conditions. The film vividlyconveys the cruelty of war, and especially the state o funcertainty and rootlessness to which refugees are exposed. The film is the first part of a trilogy that focuses on the emergence of a new civil consciousness in Malaysia, Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and Syria, as well as the social implications of the end of post-colonialism in these countries.
A 3-year-old girl and her family's long journey from a Greek refugee centre to Uppsala.
A look back over nine years of the Syrian Civil War, an inextricable conflict, like a black box, due to the competing interests of the many factions in presence and those of the foreign powers.
Azat is a Syrian refugee who is trying to get to Germany. While passing through Bulgaria, he is accused of attempted manslaughter over a child and goes to jail. There he meets The Boss - Koko. The friendship between them changes both their destinies.
Two Syrian refugee girls document each others' attempts at making their first films.
Cabir believes he killed a man while fleeing the police in the Turkish-Greek-Bulgarian border area. His feelings of guilt pursue him like a ghost. But is his victim actually the husband of Aliyes, the woman Cabir takes in, hiding, protecting him? Atmospherically dense, Turkish love drama about a refugee from Syria.