Movies: Asylum seekers

  • 1998
    Asylum

    Asylum (1998)

    Asylum

    01998HD

    This feature documentary follows three newly arrived people in Canada and their experiences with the Canadian Refugee process. As claims are assessed and paperwork is double checked, we begin to examine exactly who can be considered a refugee....

    Asylum
  • 2024
    Someone's Trying to Get in

    Someone's Trying to Get in (2024)

    Someone's Trying to Get in

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    A Haitian asylum seeker flees an immigration camp, unknowingly approaching a house owned by a paranoid blue-collar worker....

    Someone's Trying to Get in
  • 2023
    The Hearing

    The Hearing (2023)

    The Hearing

    22023HD

    After crossing 11 countries irregularly to seek asylum in Canada, Peggy, Simon and their three children are waiting for the hearing that will determine whether they get refugee status or not. Having fled political repression in the Democratic Republi...

    The Hearing
  • 2024
    Asylum

    Asylum (2024)

    Asylum

    02024HD

    Asylum is a poignant drama that unfolds the harrowing journey of Khadija Jallow and her daughter, Khawla, seeking asylum after a political coup in their home country, The Gambia. As Khadija recounts her story during an asylum interview, the narrative...

    Asylum
  • 2017
    Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time

    Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time (2017)

    Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time

    6.32017HD

    An urgent and powerful documentary, shot in a detention centre where asylum seekers trying to reach Australian shores are indefinitely detained. Secretly shot on a mobile phone by Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani while detained on Manus, in Papua ...

    Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time
  • 2023
    Matar

    Matar (2023)

    Matar

    02023HD

    Matar Dia, from Senegal, is now a mediation agent in an asylum center in Paris. He loves to draw, that’s why he painted the walls of the laundromat where he works. He tells us about his story and some of the residents’ as he shows us his art....

    Matar
  • 2017
    Grey Violet: Odd One Out

    Grey Violet: Odd One Out (2017)

    Grey Violet: Odd One Out

    12017HD

    A Russian mother and her queer son try to cope with their new situation, as the son, a political activist and radical artist, applies for political asylum in Europe....

    Grey Violet: Odd One Out
  • 2017
    Before Our Eyes

    Before Our Eyes (2017)

    Before Our Eyes

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    One inside, one outside. One thin line that creates “us” and “them”. The importance of the borders has again a huge impact in Europe. Yesterday it was all about free movement. Today it´s about controled borders. And walls and fences have become norma...

    Before Our Eyes
  • 2019
    De wijde wereld

    De wijde wereld (2019)

    De wijde wereld

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    Documentary about asylum seekers in the Netherlands....

    De wijde wereld
  • 2023
    Ahmed's Story: Life in Limbo

    Ahmed's Story: Life in Limbo (2023)

    Ahmed's Story: Life in Limbo

    02023HD

    The story of Ahmed Albarjo, a man living in Malta struggling to secure Refugee Status. Made in collaboration with Spark 15 and RAAH....

    Ahmed's Story: Life in Limbo
  • 2020
    Mirage

    Mirage (2020)

    Mirage

    02020HD

    Mali - Algeria - Libya - Italy. Issa’s escape from West Africa to the European mainland lasted ten years. Everything was supposed to be better here. But when he arrived in Rome, the only thing waiting for the young man was a life of homelessness and ...

    Mirage
  • 2018
    Catholic Worker Farm UK

    Catholic Worker Farm UK (2018)

    Catholic Worker Farm UK

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    This documentary is a brief insight into the life of The Catholic Worker Farm, London. The Farm aims to provide accommodation, food, English lessons, counselling and other services for 19 destitute (without access to public funds) female asylum seek...

    Catholic Worker Farm UK