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Barah Pal
Directed by Jennifer Rosen
12 castes of gypsy artists ended their nomadic ways nearly 45 years ago to squat in New Delhi. Now the slum is being dismantled and rehabilitated. These are their last...
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Celso and Cora
Directed by Gary Kildea
The film is about one family who live in the slums of Manila. Gary Kildea and a Filipino collaborator enter this family’s life, filming them as they eat, as they...
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Dreamland
Directed by Gema Juárez-Allen
This film explores the dreams and frustrations of camp squatters in Rio de Janeiro State, as, supported by the MST (Landless People’s Movement), they wait for permission to settle on...
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Gandhi’s Children
Directed by David MacDougall
A monolithic building on the outskirts of Delhi provides food and shelter for 350 boys. Some are orphans, some have been abandoned, others have run away from home. About half...
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The Head Cornerstone
Directed by Ruth Hammill
Griffiths takes his responsibilities seriously and works very hard as a taxi driver in Negril, Jamaica, to support his family. His sense of obligation extends to his siblings, his ageing...
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In Pursuit of Happiness
Directed by Ray Ono
Tokyo life as rarely seen on mainstream media. This short film takes you to the lives of men who live on the outskirts of the city and of Japanese society.
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Kalès
Directed by Laurent van Lanker
A film of wind and despair, of fire and solidarity, of hope and hell. An intimate and inside perspective of the ‘jungle’ of Calais, evoked through a polyphony of bodies,...
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Orphans of Passage: The Uduk
Directed by Bruce MacDonald
In 1987 Sudanese government forces attacked the Uduk of Southern Sudan, and 20-25000 Uduk fled. Since then they have criss-crossed the Sudanese/Ethiopian border 5 times. In the spring of 1992,...
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Other Europe
Directed by Rossella Schillaci
What happens to African migrants once granted political refugee status? In Turin, a northern Italian city, an abandoned clinic has been squatted by more than 200 refugees since December 2008....
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Ravi and Bhajay
Directed by Rachel Webster
Street boys Ravi and Bhajay lead a tough life on the pavements of Mumbai in India. To get away from it, they visit the nearby holy city of Ujjain with...
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Room 11, Ethiopia Hotel
Directed by Itsushi Kawase
The film recounts the life of children living on the street in Gondar, Ethiopia, by witnessing the interaction between two children and the filmmaker. The entire film was shot in...
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Street Fiction
Directed by Dominic Elliot
Through combining their own dramatic reconstructions and real life observation, this film tells the story of children who run away from their homes in search of a better life on...
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Swings and Roundabouts
Directed by Helen Pratt
Five years after the downfall of Ceausescu and Romania still receives an influx of Western European aid workers to help with rural orphanage projects. Temporary and full-time volunteers at an...
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Theatre Girls
Directed by Claire Pollack, Kim Longinotto
The “Theatre Girls Club” is a hostel for homeless, destitute and alcoholic women in Soho, London. It is run by six paid workers and it is the only hostel in...
RAI FILM Festival 2025
The next RAI FILM Festival will take place in person from 27-30 March 2025 at the Watershed Cinema and the Arnolfini International Centre for Contemporary Arts in Bristol (UK) and online throughout the month of April 2025.
