Movies: Displacement
- 1984
Silver City (1984)
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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...
- 1969
Perghuzat (1969)
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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...
- 2009
Moving to Mars (2009)
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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...
- 2009
Martha of the North (2009)
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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...
- 1969
Muddy Shoes (1969)
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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...
- 2020
When Glaciers Go (2020)
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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...
- 1988
No Address (1988)
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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...
- 2021
Tell Them We Were Here (2021)
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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....
- 2018
River Song (2018)
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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...
- 2001
Das ist alles (2001)
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Portrait of a Russian village near Kaliningrad and its multiethnic inhabitants....
- 2019
Displacement and Resilience (2019)
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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...
- 2018
Citizen Xenos (2018)
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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...
- 2018
Haus (2018)
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A displaced black queer boy finds refuge in his city's underground Kiki Ballroom scene....
- 1969
Boundaries and Pathways (1969)
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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....
- 2024
Agenda Item: Erasure (2024)
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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....
- 2019
Faces Burn (2019)
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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....