Refugee Movies

A film about the unprecedented Swiss grassroots movement of regular citizens who rise to aid thousands of refugees stranded at the European borders....

After she enters the United States illegally, 15-year-old Polish singer Katri Walenska finds herself under the wing of aspiring singer Terry Brennan....

When a soccer club manager brings one of his injured foreign players home to recuperate, they form an unlikely bond despite their cultural...

While visiting a home for children, a little girl meets Joseph, a boy whose only dream is to have a yellow umbrella. This unexpected encounter...

This is a true story about forty Jewish children on their way to Palestine, who were blocked by the German and Italian occupation of Yugoslavia in...

We meet ornithologist Anna in 1994 just as genocide is raging in Rwanda, perpetrated by the majority Hutus against the Tutsis. Anna manages to save...

Six refugee stories experienced over several years in the Czech Republic. As a former member of the Soviet socialist bloc and now part of the...

Mohammad is a young asylum seeker from Pakistan. To make a living, he works illegally as a night delivery worker. He strives for a better life in a...

A troupe of clowns gather to perform a story about a priest and a refugee, but as their misguided tale unfolds, the boundaries between fiction and...

Documentary about a "transportation commando" in Germany with the goal to deport 200 people to Albania...

During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of...

An unclassifiable cross between documentary and fiction, Kipp takes the viewer through refugee camps bordering Soviet-occupied areas of Germany.

A country football coach who has a plan to rebuild the local football team by recruiting recently settled asylum seekers.

Refugees in a post-apocalyptic future, two sisters must make the ultimate decision: one or both will die.

Chaja Florentin and Mimi Frons have been best friends for 83 years. Born and raised in Berlin, they had to escape from the Nazis to Palestine with...

After her husband is abducted in Kashmir, a traumatised woman flees to the United States with her young son to rebuild their lives.

A pair of flag waving Brits go to sea to stop the Refugee Small Boats. But their naval fantasy falls apart and they are forced to beg for rescue from...

More than 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war, the greatest displacement...