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RAI FILM

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Across the Border: Afghan Musicians exiled in Peshawar 2008 54‘

Directed by John Baily .

It is the year 2000 and most of Afghanistan is under the control of the Taliban. Hearing that many of Afghanistain’s musicians are now in exile across the border in Pakistan, ethnomusicologist John

South Asia Refugees / Displaced populations Music / Ethnomusicology Religion / Belief / Faith

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Afghan Exodus 1980 52‘

Directed by André Singer .

When Granada Television visited Afghanistan to make the award-winning Disappearing World ‘The Kirghiz’, they were a proud, independent, nomadic people who made their living by rearing herds of yaks

South Asia Refugees / Displaced populations War / Conflict / Reconciliation Migration

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Amir – An Afghan Refugee Musician’s Life in Peshavar, Pakistan 1985 52‘

Directed by John Baily .

The film investigates and portrays the life of Afghan refugees living in and around the city of Peshawar in northern Pakistan through the experiences of the musician Amir. The aspirations of Afghan

South Asia Music / Ethnomusicology Refugees / Displaced populations

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Are You Listening! 2012 90‘

Directed by Kamar Ahmad Simon Sara Afreen .

By the coastal belts of Bangladesh, in a small village named Sutarkhali, Rakhi, 27, lives with her husband Soumen, 32, and their 6 year-old son Rahul. Fighting against all the odds of the woods,

South Asia Environment Disasters Refugees / Displaced populations Development projects

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Barah Pal 2009 30‘

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 months in the colony as they

South Asia Refugees / Displaced populations Squatter Settlements / Homelessness Travellers / Roma Urban

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Benjamin and His Brother 1999 87‘

Directed by Arthur Howes .

Years of war and ethnic conflict in the Sudan have created a generation of young men, known as the "Lost Boys", who have spent more years in refugee camps than in their home communities.

North America East Africa Refugees / Displaced populations War / Conflict / Reconciliation Children / Young people Family / Kinship

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Boya Boya (Shine Shine) 2014 18‘

Directed by Karen Boswall Ruba Al Akash .

A portrait of Syrian refugee Mohammed, a 12-year-old shoe shine boy, ‘Boya Boya (Shine Shine)’ looks at the reality of the growing population of urban refugees from a child’s point of view. While

Middle and Near East Children / Young people Refugees / Displaced populations Labour

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A Colombian Family 2020 80‘

Main Competition Directed by Tanja Wol Sørensen .

A powerful mother-daughter drama is at the centre of this film. Rooted in disagreement—both personal and political—the film follows the consequences of a war that leaves them with an impossible

South America War / Conflict / Reconciliation Family / Kinship Gender Role and Identity Intergenerational relations Memory Migration Personal Narrative Political Activists Refugees / Displaced populations Social Conflict

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Dervishes of Kurdistan 1973 52‘

Directed by Brian Moser .

A community of Kurds resident in Iran on the border with Iraq forms the subject of this film. Many of the inhabitants of the community are refugees from Kurdish areas of Iraq and the villagers are

Middle and Near East Refugees / Displaced populations Religion / Belief / Faith

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Fighting for Nothing to Happen 2015 48‘

Student Directed by Nora Wildenauer .

After the volcanic eruption of Mount Rokatenda, the people of the island of Pulau Palue in east Indonesia are to be relocated. But are the planned relocation and the "new" life at the

South-East Asia Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy Refugees / Displaced populations Development projects Disasters

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Forget Alberto For Now 2020 19‘

Directed by Beina Xu .

A refugee known only as Alberto flies from Athens to Brussels on a fake passport. Three years later, a small crew from Berlin tries to make a film by shooting the landscape of his transit. Things

Western Europe Western Mediterranean Reflexivity Migration Resettlement Refugees/ Displaced populations

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In Search of Home 2000 30‘

Directed by Julie Moggan .

The Shabani family have been living in Manchester as refugees and are homesick for Kosovo. Feeling increasingly unwelcome in Britain, they return home to confront the nightmares of their recent past,

South-East Europe Refugees / Displaced populations Children / Young people War / Conflict / Reconciliation

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Kalès 2017 63‘

RAI Basil Wright 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, tales, and

Western Europe Migration Refugees / Displaced populations Squatter Settlements / Homelessness Participatory / Collaborative methods

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The Migrants 1985 52‘

Directed by Leslie Woodhead David Wason .

The Migrants is the third film in the trilogy ‘In Search of Cool Ground’ for Granada Television’s Disappearing World series. It is about a drought-induced migration of Mursi from their traditional

North and Northeast Africa Social Change Collective / Community identity Refugees / Displaced populations

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Nuba Conversation 1989 53‘

Directed by Arthur Howes .

Ten years after he made ‘Kafi’s Story’, director Arthur Howes returns to the Sudan to find the members of the Nuba who featured in his earlier documentary film. Soon after he had left the Sudan, the

North and Northeast Africa Children / Young people War / Conflict / Reconciliation Refugees / Displaced populations

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Orphans of Passage: The Uduk 1993 52‘

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, 13000

North and Northeast Africa Refugees / Displaced populations War / Conflict / Reconciliation Religion / Belief / Faith Squatter Settlements / Homelessness

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Out of Place 1993 38‘

Directed by Peter Lutz .

The war in Bosnia in the early 1990s drove Nerma and Mavis from their homes. Having found refuge in Sweden, they learn to cope with a new situation.

Scandinavia Refugees / Displaced populations War / Conflict / Reconciliation

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Returning Home: Revival of a Bosnian Village 2001 48‘

Directed by Tone Bringa Peter Loizos .

The film is the sequel to ‘We are all Neighbours’, the 1993 Granada Disappearing World film, about the breakdown of relations between Muslims and Croats as war overtakes their ethnically mixed

South-East Europe War / Conflict / Reconciliation Collective / Community identity Refugees / Displaced populations

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Sophia and Her People 1985 35‘

Directed by Peter Loïzos .

Sofia and her family lost their village home in 1975 when Turkey invaded Cyprus. The film, mainly set in Nicosia in 1983, shows the pressures of refugee economic recovery through shift work in a

South-East Europe Refugees / Displaced populations Social Change Family / Kinship

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Still Life 2009 26‘

Directed by Siobhan McGuirk .

“I am here because I can’t go home.” Subject to strict controls in the UK, three women asylum seekers wait for claims to be processed and decisions made. Here they find the lives which they

British-Irish Isles Refugees / Displaced populations Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy

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Tablas and Drum Machines: Afghan Music in California 2001 58‘

Directed by John Baily .

Ethnomusicologist John Baily visits Fremont, California, the new home of the large community of exiled Afghans. He is joined by Kabuli master-musician, Ustad Asif Mahmoud, who plans to open a small

North America Music / Ethnomusicology Education / Knowledge transmission Refugees / Displaced populations

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Unwritten Letters 2020 59‘

Directed by Max Bloching Abd Alrahman Dukmak .

Abd is a 24-year-old Syrian who took part in the early days of the 2011 revolution and now lives in Padova, Italy. Together with his German friend Max he is working on a film called Unwritten

South-East Europe Middle and Near East Migration Refugees / Displaced populations Participatory / Collaborative methods Life Story / Life History