A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.

The Merger

2018

English

6.6

♡ 10

78%

95%

Action

asylum seekers

australian rules football

Mark Grentell Director

Kate Mulvany as Angie Barlow

John Howard as Bull Barlow

Adam Drummond as Hibbert

Fayssal Bazzi as Sayyid

A country football coach who has a plan to rebuild the local football team by recruiting recently settled asylum seekers.

The Flood

2019

English

5.7

♡ 35

67%

Anthony Woodley Director

Arsher Ali as Nasrat

Iain Glen as Philip

Mandip Gill as Reema

Lena Headey as Wendy

Wendy, a hardened immigration officer is offered a high-profile asylum case, judged on her ability to quickly and clinically reject applicants. Through her interrogation, she must uncover whether Haile is lying and has a more sinister reason for seeking asylum.

The Cloud-Capped Star

1960

Bangla

7.8

♡ 26

86%

Ritwik Ghatak Director

Arati Das as

Narayan Dhar as

Suresh Chatterjee as (as Suresh Chattopadhyay)

Ranen Ray Choudhury as Baul singer

A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.

It Will be Chaos

2018

Arabic

6.5

♡ 7

100%

Lorena Luciano Director

Francesco Mollo as Self

Part road-movie and part intimate portrait of lives in transit, IT WILL BE CHAOS unfolds between Italy and the Balkan corridor, intercutting two unforgettable refugees stories of human strength and resilience.

All Saints

2017

English

6.3

♡ 23

95%

72%

Action

asia

based on a true story

Steve Gomer Director

Cara Buono as Aimee Spurlock

David Keith as Boyd

John Corbett as Michael Spurlock

Nelson Lee as Ye Win

Michael Spurlock decides to trade in his corporate sales career to become a pastor. Unfortunately, his first assignment is to close a country church and sell the prime piece of land where it sits. He soon has a change of heart when the church starts to welcome refugees from Burma. Spurlock now finds himself working with the refugees to turn the land into a working farm to pay the church's bills.

Hearts and Bones

2019

English

6.6

♡ 6

81%

Ben Lawrence Director

Hugo Weaving as Dan Fisher

Alan Dukes as Graham Fisher

Ava Caryofyllis as Iraqi Minefield Girl

Hayley McElhinney as Josie Avril

A shell-shocked photojournalist, haunted by what he has witnessed on assignment in Africa, returns home on the eve of becoming a father. When one of his photographs threatens to destroy a Sudanese refugee's new life, the two men are reunited by nightmare events from the past.

And Breathe Normally

2018

Icelandic

7.0

♡ 4

94%

Isold Uggadottir Director

Gunnar Jónsson as Driver

Sólveig Guðmundsdóttir as Kolbrún

Helga Vala Helgadóttir as Lawyer

Jakob S. Jonsson as Sigvaldi

At the edge of Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, two women’s lives will intersect – for a brief moment – while trapped in circumstances unforeseen. Between a struggling Icelandic mother and an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond will form as both strategize to get their lives back on track.

Berlin Alexanderplatz

2020

German

6.9

♡ 5

47%

67%

Action

based on novel or book

Burhan Qurbani Director

Thelma Buabeng as Amira

Jella Haase as Mieze

Joachim Król as Pums

Albrecht Schuch as Reinhold

In 2015, thirty year old refugee Francis, the sole survivor of a boat that illegally crossed the Mediterranean, is drawn into Berlin's seedy underbelly.

The Donut King

2020

English

7.1

♡ 3

97%

Alice Gu Director

Daewon Song as Self

Chuong Pek Lee as Self

Susan Lim as Self

Ted Ngoy as Self

Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy builds a multi-million dollar empire by baking America's favourite pastry: the doughnut.

Birds Are Singing in Kigali

2017

Polish

5.5

♡ 6

Joanna Kos-Krauze Director

Jowita Budnik as Anna Keller

Eliane Umuhire as Claudine Mugambira

Jerzy Gudejko as Jan

Witold Wielinski as Witek

We meet ornithologist Anna in 1994 just as genocide is raging in Rwanda, perpetrated by the majority Hutus against the Tutsis. Anna manages to save the daughter of a colleague whose family has been murdered, and she takes her to Poland. But the woman returns to Rwanda to visit the graves of her loved ones. The director originally worked on the movie with her husband Krzysztof Krauze (My Nikifor – Crystal Globe, KVIFF 2005), but after his death in 2014 she eventually finished this challenging picture alone.

Ghabe

2019

Swedish

4.7

♡ 7

Markus Castro Director

Sara Sommerfeld as Angela

Martin Melin as Border Police 1

Elias Palin as Nicklas

Wafai Laila as Yusuf

A refugee falling in love. "Ghabe" follows a Syrian refugee during the summer of the 2015 migration as he falls in love with a majestic forest in Sweden and a mysterious local woman living on its border.

The Boat Is Full

1981

German

7.1

♡ 6

75%

Markus Imhoof Director

Ilse Bahrs as Frau Ostrowskij

Tina Engel as Judith Krueger

Michael Gempart as Landjäger Bigler

Curt Bois as Lazar Ostrowskij

During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: four Jews, a French child, and a German soldier. They seek temporary refuge with a couple who run a village inn. They pose as a family: the deserter as husband, Judith as his wife, an old man from Vienna as her father, his granddaughter and the French lad, whom they beg to keep silent, as their children. Judith's teenage brother poses as a soldier. The fabrication unravels through chance and the local constable's exact investigation. Whom will the Swiss allow to stay? Who gets deported?

Arch of Triumph

1948

English

6.3

♡ 6

54%

Lewis Milestone Director

Leonardo Scavino as Capt. Gonzales

Gene Roth as Gestapo Agent

Ingrid Bergman as Joan Madou

Curt Bois as Tattooed Waiter

In the winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic, who practices medicine illegally and stalks his old Nazi enemy Haake with murder in mind. One rainy night, Ravic meets Joan Madou, a kept woman cast adrift by her lover's sudden death. Against Ravic's better judgment, they become involved in a doomed affair.

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

2000

English

7.7

♡ 3

92%

Mark Jonathan Harris Director

Alexander Leeb as Father

Judi Dench as Narrator

Adolf Hitler as Self

Lore Segal as Self

In the nine months prior to World War II, 10.000 innocent children left behind their families, their homes, their childhood, and took the journey... to Britain to escape the Nazi Holocaust.

Chasing Asylum

2016

English

7.2

♡ 3

92%

Eva Orner Director

Peter Young as Self - chief psychiatrist, detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru Tahira

Tahira as Self - Hazara refugee

Mr. Barat as Self - killed asylum seeker Reza Barat's father

Malcolm Turnbull as Self - Prime Minister of Australia

Chasing Asylum tells the story of Australia's cruel, inhumane treatment of asylum seekers and refugees, examining the human, political, financial and moral impact of current and previous policy.

Silent Night

2002

English

7.5

♡ 5

83%

Rodney Gibbons Director

Linda Hamilton as Elisabeth Vincken

Romano Orzari as Pvt. Jimmy Rassi

Alain Goulem as Sgt. Ralph Blank

Matthew Harbour as Young Fritz Vincken

Fact-based World War II story set on Christmas Eve, 1944, finds a German Mother and her son seeking refuge in a cabin on the war front. When she is invaded by three American soldiers and then three German soldiers, she successfully convinces the soldiers to put aside their differences for one evening and share a Christmas dinner.

The Port of Last Resort

1998

German

7.4

♡ 4

Joan Grossman Director

Barbara Sukowa as Annie Witting

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer as Voice over

Erika Deutinger as Voice over

Brigitta Furgler as Voice over

Documentary that follows the lives of several Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII.

Death Ranch

2020

English

4.7

♡ 5

80%

Charlie Steeds Director

Travis Cutner as Clarence Cobbs

Shane Guilbeau as Cletus

Brad Belemjian as Gator

Thomas Mark Higgins as Jeb

In 1970s America, three African-American siblings on the run from the police take refuge at an abandoned Tennessee Ranch, unaware their hideout is on the hunting grounds of a cannibalistic Ku Klux Klan cult. Trapped and tortured, the three must fight tooth and nail to escape alive and take down the bloodthirsty Klan.