Movies: Displacement

  • 1984
    Silver City

    Silver City (1984)

    Silver City

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    After World War II, 4,000 Polish families came to Australia. They were Jews, Fascists, anti-Communists, and others dispossessed. In a large hostel, where even married men and women were housed in separate barracks, the adults lived for two years whil...

    Silver City
  • 1969
    Perghuzat

    Perghuzat (1969)

    Perghuzat

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    Forced by the dangerous state of his homeland, Perghuzat moved to Berlin. He is alone, working small jobs day and night to survive. The profound clash of cultures, the linguistic barrier and the lack of spare time lead him into a condition of extreme...

    Perghuzat
  • 2009
    Moving to Mars

    Moving to Mars (2009)

    Moving to Mars

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    Moving to Mars charts the epic journey made by two Burmese families from a vast refugee camp on the Thai/Burma border to their new homes in the UK. At times hilarious, at times emotional, their travels provide a fascinating and unique insight not onl...

    Moving to Mars
  • 2009
    Martha of the North

    Martha of the North (2009)

    Martha of the North

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    In the mid-1950s, lured by false promises of a better life, Inuit families were displaced by the Canadian government and left to their own devices in the Far North. In this icy desert realm, Martha Flaherty and her family lived through one of Canadia...

    Martha of the North
  • 1969
    Muddy Shoes

    Muddy Shoes (1969)

    Muddy Shoes

    01969HD

    An elderly Jewish woman, who was a teenager during the outset of the Holocaust and was forced to choose between her own life and her younger brother's, still lives with the guilt until she finally shares her nightmare experience with her own adult da...

    Muddy Shoes
  • 2020
    When Glaciers Go

    When Glaciers Go (2020)

    When Glaciers Go

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    A diminishing water supply is driving people from their land in a remote region of Nepal. The younger generation of the Gurung family adapts by commuting from their ancestral home, where subsistence depends on grazing goats and cows, to a village tha...

    When Glaciers Go
  • 1988
    No Address

    No Address (1988)

    No Address

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    This feature-length documentary by Alanis Obomsawin examines the plight of Native people who come to Montreal searching for jobs and a better life. Often arriving without money, friends or jobs, a number of them quickly become part of the homeless po...

    No Address
  • 2021
    Tell Them We Were Here

    Tell Them We Were Here (2021)

    Tell Them We Were Here

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    Tell Them We Were Here is an inspirational feature-length documentary about eight artists who show us why art is vital to a healthy society and reminds us that we are stronger together....

    Tell Them We Were Here
  • 2018
    River Song

    River Song (2018)

    River Song

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    Tashi is a lonely single man living on the edge of a small town in Arunachal Pradesh. The town is slowly being inundated by water from a nearby dam reservoir. One day he meets Eshna, who has come to town with her husband who is overseeing the dam's c...

    River Song
  • 2001
    Das ist alles

    Das ist alles (2001)

    Das ist alles

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    Portrait of a Russian village near Kaliningrad and its multiethnic inhabitants....

    Das ist alles
  • 2019
    Displacement and Resilience

    Displacement and Resilience (2019)

    Displacement and Resilience

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    The documentary is a five country-based sequences featuring stories about conflict, migration and the experience of exile; Tibetan women refugees in Dharamshala, India, Syrian refugee family in Tunisia, evicted indigenous women in the Phlippines; Roh...

    Displacement and Resilience
  • 2018
    Citizen Xenos

    Citizen Xenos (2018)

    Citizen Xenos

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    An intimate look into the lives of individuals experiencing displacement and relocation amidst the European migration crisis. A journey of strangers arriving at the shores of Lesbos in Greece, the people who receive them and the struggles they face t...

    Citizen Xenos
  • 2018
    Haus

    Haus (2018)

    Haus

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    A displaced black queer boy finds refuge in his city's underground Kiki Ballroom scene....

    Haus
  • 1969
    Boundaries and Pathways

    Boundaries and Pathways (1969)

    Boundaries and Pathways

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    An unsentimental yet compassionate film about building a community to increase a sense of belonging despite living the worst times ever imagined....

    Boundaries and Pathways
  • 2024
    Agenda Item: Erasure

    Agenda Item: Erasure (2024)

    Agenda Item: Erasure

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    Seven political activists from Israel come together in a theater in Tel Aviv and read from the transcripts of government meetings dating back to 1948, which had been classified until recently....

    Agenda Item: Erasure
  • 2019
    Faces Burn

    Faces Burn (2019)

    Faces Burn

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    Our place is on fire and we are on fire with it. If that, what we are, is not any longer and an eternal search begins - for who we are, where we stand and where we should go....

    Faces Burn