Early on in “I Was a Stranger,” we follow Amira (Yasmine Al Massri), a physician working at a hospital in war-torn Syria in the late 2010s. As she tries to save the lives of wounded men, ...

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The image of the lifeless body of two-year-old Kurdish-Syrian boy Alan Kurdi lying washed up on a Turkish beach shocked the world in September 2015. His death, alongside that of his mother and brother ...

Some films are clearly made more as a work of political activism than they are as art or entertainment, and that is the case ...

“As refugees we are better placed to talk about issues that affects us and by all means we should be empowered to tell our stories,” says Abdul Patient – refugee filmmaker and one of the founders at ...

Variety is exclusively unveiling the trailer for “Lost Land” (“Harà Watan”), Japanese filmmaker Fujimoto Akio‘s deeply personal drama about Rohingya refugees that world premieres in the Horizons ...

The Paramount Theatre will screen the documentary Salam Neighbor at 6 p.m. Monday. The film looks at life in the Za atari refugee camp in Jordan, home to people fleeing the conflict in Syria. The ...

"WE are more than just refugees," said Shuhaid, a young refugee from Myanmar raised in Malaysia, during the 3rd Refugee Film Festival held at San Beda University on Saturday, hosted in collaboration ...

NEW YORK – At 12, Syrian refugee Zain Al Rafeaa barely knew how to write his name. He was discovered in the streets of Beirut by Lebanese film director Nadine Labaki, who cast him to star in her new ...

The first trailer has been unveiled for “Hana Korea,” a North Korean refugee drama starring “Pachinko‘s” Kim Minha, ahead of its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival. The trailer ...

When Pin Yathay miraculously escaped the genocide that claimed at least 1.7 million lives in Cambodia, he made a vow that was both universal and personal: to bear witness to the atrocities that ...