Movies: Migration

While millions of birds migrate freely in the skies above, Fadia, a Palestinian refugee stranded in Lebanon, yearns for the ancestral homeland she is denied. When a chance meeting introduces her to the director, Sarah, she challenges her to find an a...

A Lebanese migrant in The Netherlands receives a haunting voice message from his former best friend in Beirut....

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Mali - Algeria - Libya - Italy. Issa’s escape from West Africa to the European mainland lasted ten years. Everything was supposed to be better here. But when he arrived in Rome, the only thing waiting for the young man was a life of homelessness and ...

A dutch film maker, married to a Nicaraguan, sets himself a goal of finding out what kind of people is risking life trying to emigrate over the borders to USA, and if some of the reach the American dream....

KÖY (Turkish for village) is about the longing for home, for belonging and the freedom of the self. Three women from three generations are united by their Kurdish roots....

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An intimate meditation on exile and home, Prysia’s Garden portrays the quiet life of aging Ukrainian refugee Prysia through the detailed photographic lens of first-generation Ukrainian-American Lida Suchy. By confronting Prysia’s story, Lida reflect...

While everyone knows the migration of wildebeest in east Africa, few have paid attention to their predecessors in this long journey: the zebras. Hundreds of thousands of zebras mark the vanguard of the greater movement of ungulates of the African con...

A family history archive as told by matriarch Azalu Mekonnen and her granddaughter Samira Hooks....

LGBTQ+ people on the move come to Casa Frida, where they redefine what it means to be a migrant and continue to break glass ceilings on their way to a better home and a better identity....

A musical adventure with Taymaz, Sofiia, Apsarah, Loghithan, Omar and Gabriele. Six children from Lucerne with a migration background who find a common language in classical music....

Almost eight years ago the family of Marcela Gómez separated. His parents and younger sister emigrated to the United States and lived in Cali, Colombia. While reconstructing the history of her family through the home movies they sent her in the mail,...

Old home videos and wandering voice recordings trace the quiet unraveling of the relationship between a father and his daughter shaped by migration and years of separation....

Spanning 45 years, the life of the Lee family is told through home videos that reflect themes of memory formation, roles and relationships, and how migration and connections are developed within these cycles....

Nine post war migrants are interviewed in their houses and explain their survival in World War 2, migration to Australia. Travel on ships. Arrival in Australia. Life in migrant camps. Assimilation into Australian society....

In 2024, 82 people lost their lives crossing the English Channel while seeking safety in the UK. In the wake of grief, a poignant journey along the coast of the English port town of Dover slowly confronts the darker undercurrents beneath the surface....