"Refuge"
Refugee
How would it feel to be on the run from everything you know, in the hope of finding a safe place somewhere else...
Sultans of String - The Refuge Project: Visual Album
Mixed in full Dolby Atmos, this ambitious, diverse, inclusive, and passionately political film puts NY Times and Billboard-charting world music supergroup Sultans of String face-to-face with a VIP roster of global ‘ambassadors,’ some of whom are recent immigrants and refugees to Canada and the U.S., as well as essential Indigenous voices. Film..
The Last Refugees
Among the last Syrian refugees allowed in the US before President Trump’s Muslim travel ban, the Kalajis’ excitement and hope slowly turn into something else as they face the realities of surviving and the magnitude of what they were forced to leave behind.
Refugee Blues
Set to the verses of W.H. Auden’s 1939 poem, the film charts an intimate day in ‘the jungle’ of the refugee camp outside Calais, which contradicts the mainstream portrayal of the camp as a center of violence.
Amir: An Afghan Refugee Musician's Life in Peshawar, Pakistan
Amir, shot during the height of the Afghan civil war in the 1980s, investigates and portrays the life of Afghan refugees living in and around the city of Peshawar in northern Pakistan through the experiences of the musician Amir. The aspirations of Afghan refugees are expressed through their political songs dealing with the civil war in Afghanistan..
Refugees Welcome Here
Helen Matthews is a proud Londoner and even prouder mother. Cultured, generous and inclusive, Helen believes in the EU, farmers' markets and the healing powers of a good brew. But above all else, Helen Matthews believes refugees are welcome here...in theory anyway.
Exercises in Being Close to You: A Story for the Arctic Refuge
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is sacred land to the indigenous First Nations community of Canada; it is also an area where 40,000 caribou calves are born every spring. Krista Davis joins a 10-day expedition to follow the migration of the caribous and explore how we can critically examine our own relationship to the world around us with a came..
Refugee
La crise migratoire en Europe, ce n'est pas que des chiffres. C'est aussi une réalité poignante pour des familles séparées aux frontières. Ici, c'est une famille syrienne qui lutte pour se réunir en Allemagne.
Refugees under the Rainbow
"At the end of the rainbow you will find a treasure – it will completely change your life.“ Whoever tries to find the end of the rainbow will realise things are not that easy - the end of the rainbow is not a fixed point. Also, Yusuf, Ritah and William had to make this experience in their lives – just like many LGBT* refugees. The film tells ..
Utica: The Last Refuge
Utica: The Last Refuge tracks the Azeins, a Sudanese family, from touchdown at the Syracuse airport in 2017 through their first years in Utica. They have landed amidst unprecedented upheaval in US refugee policy. The Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees has to take care of them and other new arrivals while simultaneously fighting for its own ..
Refugees In Japan
Out of thousands of people who sought asylum in Japan, 28 people were granted refugee status in 2016. A further 97 people, though not recognized as refugees, were approved to stay in Japan on humanitarian grounds. More efforts are being made to integrate refugees into Japanese society in partnership with UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
A Requiem for Syrian Refugees
Scored to Gabriel Fauré’s well-known Requiem in D-Minor and shot in stark black and white with a crew of refugees who felt the urgency to convey their situation to the world, A REQUIEM FOR SYRIAN REFUGEES is a wrenching portrait of survival, resilience and empowerment in the camps of Northern Iraq. An intimate perspective on the daily lives and ..
Refuge from the Storm
While working at a night club, Linda meets Steve, an aspiring writer who, in his search for the "Meaning of Life", gets pulled into a world of drugs and spiritual darkness propagated by Katrine, the nightclub owner. Linda begins to see beyond Katrine's world, with the knowledge she receives from a total stranger. With a fearless attitude she conque..
City of Refuge
An American teenager visits and documents her visit to the Zaatari Syrian Refugee Camp.
About Face: The Story of the Jewish Refugee Soldiers of World War II
About Face: The Story of the Jewish Refugee Soldiers of World War II Documents the as-yet-untold World War II story of young Jewish men who escaped certain danger at the hands of the Nazis and returned to fight them in Europe and North Africa. Told through the eyes of these men, the film chronicles the journey from Nazi victim to refugee and, fina..
Space of Refuge
This is a story about the ‘capital of Karen refugee camps’ situated along the Thailand-Myanmar border where 40,000 residents are living behind the military fences. After three decades, the camp has developed and urbanized beyond its original designation as temporary shelters.
National Archives Microfilm Publication M999 Roll 34: Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands: Six Miles from Springfield on the Franklin Road
This film by Kara Walker takes its title and narrative from documents in the Freedman Bureau’s archive and uses her trademark cut-paper silhouettes to animate the disturbing story of an African American family. Controlled by the sticks and strings of their human operators, including the artist herself, the figures moving within a shadow puppet-li..
Giant Pandas: The Last Refuge
Take a fascinating trip to the world of these enchanting creatures to observe them in their natural environment. Their work is critical now, because these well-known creatures are in dire jeopardy. The offspring of captive pandas are rare and sickly compared to those naturally raised, and scientists race to discover why before their habitats and p..
