This documentary is about families living in "Icho Danchi", a public apartment complex in Kanagawa. In the school the children attend, the majority of students have a foreign background and many of their parents were refugees. Born in Japan, the children seem to have a comfortable life but they also have concerns of their own which are very different from those of their parents.
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Yu-jin Kitagawa, the leader of a Japanese music duo Yuzu, sets out on a journey to face the realities of the world, not as a popular musician but merely as one young man from Japan. The destination were refugee camps in Kenya.
What did he witness and feel there in the continent of Africa? What is it that he will try to tell us?
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.
Lalia is a child who dreams of the Sahara, her country of origin. Growing up in the refugee camp, she never lost hope to see the ocean as well as the land of Saharawi, which she has only heard her grandmother and grandfather talk about.
14 kilometres is the short distance between North Africa and Spain but it is an incredibly long journey for refugees and immigrants from Africa trying to find new life in Europe! This film illustrates the frightful reality of how 14km can be stressful to humans, both physically and mentally.
As in 'The Odyssey', the Aegean Sea is the setting when our hero, Elias, sets out on his adventures. On the same waters, under the same sun and the same sky as the dawn of civilization. After countless incidents and accidents, a stopover in paradise and a sojourn in hell, the magical conclusion of his journey takes place in Paris.
After serving in the Occupied Territories during the Second Intifadah, discharged Israeli soldiers, return to civilian life only to discover the gap between the reality which they witnessed in the Territories, and the silence which they encounter at home. In order to become a civilian again, soldiers are forced to ignore their past experiences...
This animated quasi-documentary follows the filmmaker's emotional attempt to decipher the horrors that unfolded one night in September of 1982, when Christian militia members massacred more than 3,000 Palestinian refugees in the heart of Beirut as Israeli soldiers surrounded the area.
A chance encounter in New York City grows into a strong friendship between a lonely college professor and a young musician. All goes well until one of them is being deported back to his country since the immigration authorities find that his asylum application had been denied.
The film gazes intimately into the lives of 3 women from former Yugoslavia who now live in Switzerland. It is an exploration of physical and emotional displacement, as more and more people move between cultures and countries, in the increasingly borderless world.
The film chronicles the parallel lives of a family divided by the Thai-Cambodian border after the Khmer Rouge regime. The hopes and the dreams finally come true as the family reunites in their Cambodian village after 12 years in the refugee camp.
The film reveals the story of the most extensive clandestine operation in the history of modern warfare. The secret war in Laos, which was conducted alongside the Vietnam War, displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
Both Sallieu and Joyce seem like ordinary teenagers living in Toronto. Having revealed their tragic background, the camera features strong and courageous refugees making new lives for themselves in a city away from home.
Mobarak, a young Afghan refugee falls in love with an English teacher Molly. Their relationship runs into difficulties, when the town is split between those in favor of the refugees and those not. Mobarak fills the screen with his pure feeling for her.
3 lost boys from Sudan resettle in America, where they are given 3 months to find they way to live. This is an inspiring story of their triumph in their own words with Brad Pitt as a producer and Nicole Kidman as a narrator.
Over 200,000 men, women and children are imprisoned in North Korean camps. Occasionally, opponents of the dictatorship succeed in fleeing the country. Some of them, now living in Seoul, South Korea, decided to make a unique and controversial musical based on their experiences in the 'Yodok' concentration camp.
Switzerland has just passed a restrictive asylum law. At close range the film shows the daily sorting process and, with emotion and humor, gives us an unorthodox look at the critical issues that face Europe today.
Before becoming a successful rapper, Sudanese born hip hop artist, Emmanuel Jal, served for nearly 5 years as a child soldier in the Sudanese People's Liberation Army. With the help of an aid worker, he escaped the army. Ever since, Jal has dedicated himself to peace in Sudan and a better future for Africa.
The father of a Palestinian boy, shot by Israeli soldiers, donates his son's organs to six Israeli children and saves their lives. This powerful story is one more step towards the reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.
Images from the regime of Burma (Myanmar) are rarely seen outside the country. In 2007, 30 Burmese video reporters provided the world's press with secret recordings of human rights violations, thereby risking their own lives.
