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Three part documentary series filmed using camera phones by people smuggling themselves into Europe. Episode one begins with a look at the thousands of Syrian refugees arrive in the Turkish port of Izmir....
This film approaches the question of what happens to African migrants once they have been granted political refugee status in European countries through the story of three Somali refugees. Khaled, Shukri and...
Forced from their homeland, Burma, by the repressive military junta, these two families have lived in a Thai refugee camp for many years. A resettlement scheme offers them the chance of a new life, but their...
An impressionistic, semi-documentary by John Akomfrah which uses archival footage of the arrival of immigrants in Britain as well as clips illustrating the difficulties of integration faced by people once...
Photography is known in China as the "Art of Regret". In the rapidly changing city of Kunming, people are ambivalent about whether they want photography to be a medium of preservation and evidence, or of...
In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India for the UK. The first thing he did was buy two Super-8 cameras, one of which he sent home to his family in India. For the next 40 years, the family exchanged...
Diaries, notes and sketches filmed 1949-1963, edited 1976. Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas invented the diary form of filmmaking. Born in Lithuania in 1922, and displaced from his...
With Germany the first port of call for many asylum seekers, war refugees and migrants looking for a better life, this film tells the stories of asylum seekers from Bosinia who are sent to a holding camp in...
Exposé of the cruel and inhuman treatment of a Filipino ‘guest worker’ in Saudi Arabia.
A film adaptation of the novel ‘Return journey’ by Abdulla Hussein. In the early 1960s, illegal Pakistani immigrants lead a troubled and squalid existence, which is precipitated into crisis by the...
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