46 movies

April 5, 2024

In een voormalige mijnwerkersstad staat The Old Oak, de laatste kroeg van het inmiddels vervallen plaatsje in Noord-Engeland. De lokale bevolking kan zelf amper het hoofd boven water houden en ziet hun woonplaats steeds verder leeglopen. Kroegbaas TJ hoort zijn mopperende, vaste klanten zwijgzaam aan. Als dan de pub ook nog eens met sluiting wordt bedreigt, zorgt de huisvesting van Syrische vluchtelingen in het stadje voor extra onrust. Maar een onwaarschijnlijke vriendschap brengt de verschillende werelden voorzichtig tot elkaar, met The Old Oak als gezamenlijk middelpunt. In The Old Oak gloort er hoop in het besef dat we het toch samen moeten doen.

April 30, 2021

An offbeat observation of refugees waiting to be granted asylum on a fictional remote Scottish island. It focuses on Omar, a young Syrian musician who is burdened by the weight of his grandfather’s oud, which he has carried all the way from his homeland.

Na verhuisd te zijn voor de universiteit, keert Leevi voor de zomer terug naar zijn geboorteland Finland, om zijn vervreemde vader te helpen bij het renoveren van het vakantiehuis aan het meer, zodat het kan worden verkocht.

Tareq, een recente asielzoeker uit Syrië, is ingehuurd om te helpen met het werk, en wanneer Leevi's vader voor zaken naar de stad terug moet, krijgen de twee jongemannen een band en beginnen ze aan een romance in de idyllische Finse zomer.

De dreigende terugkeer van de vader naar het huis aan het meer, de voortzetting van de studie van Leevi in het buitenland en de complexe relatie van Tareq met zijn familie in Syrië zijn echter de grootste verrassing.

March 27, 2020

Marius is een succesvolle advocaat in Vilnius. Hij raakt via een chatroom geobsedeerd met Ali, een aantrekkelijke Syrische vluchteling in Belgrado. De rijke Marius heeft een bruisend sociaal leven, gevuld met culturele ervaringen. Ondanks alle voorspoed voelt hij een leegte en een groot gemis in zijn leven. Litouwen en Servië liggen niet ver van elkaar, maar kunnen ze hun weg vinden door de kloof die hun uiteenlopende levens van elkaar scheidt? En hoe gaan ze om de obstakels van de fysieke grenzen die tussen hen in staan?

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.

June 21, 2017

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.

March 5, 2024

In a war-torn Middle Eastern city where music has been banned by Islamic extremists, Karim, a brilliant musician, struggles to rebuild his destroyed piano while trying to escape to Europe.

This intimate documentary follows a group of Syrian children refugees who narrowly escape a life of torment and integrate into a foreign land.

March 24, 2023

A glance at the divided U.S. political system through the eyes of a young Syrian refugee on the streets of Memphis, TN, as he faces the harsh realities of chasing the American dream.

November 9, 2023

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.

March 31, 2019

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.

September 28, 2017

On a Mediterranean shore, a Syrian father's decision to give his daughter a better life puts her in danger of losing it.

February 4, 2022

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…

February 7, 2013

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.

De driejarige vluchteling Lean reist samen met haar ouders van het Midden-Oosten naar Europa. Ze zijn begonnen aan een reis van 86 dagen naar Zweden, waar haar grootouders wonen. Lean zal het zich later misschien niet meer herinneren.

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.

June 15, 2017

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.

September 21, 2023

Two Syrian refugee girls document each others' attempts at making their first films.

June 8, 2016

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.

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