UNHCR Refugee film festival

UNHCR Refugee film festival

UNHCR Refugee film festival

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WELCOME

WELCOME

Japan Premiere
France/2009/110 min/Fiction
Director: Philippe Lioret
Audio: French, English
Subtitles: English, Japanese

(c) 2009 Films Distribution

A 17-year-old Kurdish refugee takes swimming lessons in a seaside community in the north of France. His goal is to join his girlfriend in England by swimming across the English Channel. Set in Calais the film charts the bond that develops between an illegal Kurdish immigrant and a French swimming instructor.


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