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Every year, many Afghans are forced to flee the ravages of war in their country. They depart full of hope for a better life, but not all of them survive to see their destination. Last Station tells the story of one young Afghan refugee's journey. After a long passage through Pakistan, Iran and Turkey, he finally settles in Switzerland, where he faces a stark cultural gap, and questions about his identity as a Muslim.

The film describes the lives of five refugees in Lebanon. One of them, Mohammad from Darfur, finds his three brothers and three of his sisters killed, his mother moments away from death. He decides to flee the conflict in Sudan and make his way to Lebanon, where he becomes one of the 9,000 non-Palestinian refugees and asylum seekers being cared for by UNHCR.

The inspiring story of four refugees fleeing Vietnam in 1980, Mother Fish goes inside the mind of one of the survivors. The present melds with the past as a quiet factory worker relives an extraordinary journey in which she and her sister took to the sea in a creaky river boat in search of a better life.

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They are teenagers who fled crisis regions and undertook an extremely dangerous journey to Austria, all alone, hoping for one thing: to live. After arriving there, they fight to live normal lives, struggling against a system that demands they sacrifice their youth to an uncertain future.

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Why doesn't the conflict end between the junta and the ethnic minorities? The film follows the everyday life of a Karen boy born in a refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar (Burma) border whose wish is to become a Karen soldier, and a young Karen teacher born inside Burma, a graduate of the university inside the refugee camp, who believes in the value of education as a pathway to true independence for his ethnic group.

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Across the country, Ugandan children are getting ready for the biggest event of the year, the National Music Competition. Over 20,000 schools will compete, but only one will go home as the champion. No one expects it to be Patongo, a school in a refugee camp in Northern Uganda, a region suffering from two decades of war.

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There is only one known segment of footage showing any actual killing from the Rwandan genocide. This movie is about the extraordinary journey of that evidence as the original photographer returns to Rwanda, to revisit the people and events that he by chance caught on film.

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The Rwandan government has returned over 50,000 of those who were involved in the 1994 genocide to their communities. Can the survivors forgive and accept them back in their societies? Can the government expect this of the people? The film explores these questions by peering into the lives of four survivors of the genocide. Narrated by Mia Farrow.

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The film tracks Nicholas Kristof, the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the New York Times, and his journey to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where conflict and poverty rage unabated. The film exposes the reality of the country, and in the process sheds light on why field reporting is vital to democracy and the raising of global awareness.

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After studying medicine in Germany for several years, Anberber goes back to his home country Ethiopia. There, he finds his dreams stifled and disarrayed by the country's political turmoil. The film chronicles his internal struggle to stay true, both to himself and to his homeland.

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