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    The Jump 2020 POSTER

    The Jump

    2020

    Lithuanian

    8.3

    1

    100%

    83%

    asylum seekers

    cold war

    Documentary

    History

    Giedre Zickyte Giedre Zickyte Director Henry Kissinger Henry Kissinger as Self Gerald Ford Gerald Ford as Self Ann Ingham Ann Ingham as Self Cindy White Glazewski Cindy White Glazewski as Self
    In the Cold War years of the 1970s, an American patrol boat meets a Soviet ship off the east coast of the United States for talks about fishing rights in the Atlantic. In the midst of this, while Russian commanders are aboard the U.S. Coast Guard vessel where the talks are being held, a Lithuanian sailor jumps across the ten feet of icy water separating the boats. Crash-landing on the deck of the American ship, he desperately begs for asylum. Though they try, the Americans ultimately fail to provide protection and the Soviets are allowed to capture him and brutally return him to their vessel. Thus begins a stranger-than-fiction story of imprisonment, discovery, fame, and freedom. Through rare archival footage and a dramatic first-person re-enactment of that fateful day by Simas Kudirka, the would-be defector himself, this tale of one of the biggest Cold War muddles takes us on a journey of uncanny twists of fate, and the emotional sacrifices of becoming a universal symbol of freedom.
    The Merger 2018 POSTER

    The Merger

    2018

    English

    6.6

    10

    78%

    95%

    Action

    asylum seekers

    australian rules football

    Comedy

    country club

    Drama

    inclusion

    refugee

    Sport

    sports

    Mark Grentell Mark Grentell Director Kate Mulvany Kate Mulvany as Angie Barlow John Howard John Howard as Bull Barlow Adam Drummond Adam Drummond as Hibbert Fayssal Bazzi Fayssal Bazzi as Sayyid
    A country football coach who has a plan to rebuild the local football team by recruiting recently settled asylum seekers.
    Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container 2002 POSTER

    Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container

    2002

    German

    7.7

    Action

    art

    asylum seekers

    austria

    Documentary

    politics

    Reality-TV

    xenophobia

    Paul Poet Paul Poet Director Daniel Cohn-Bendit Daniel Cohn-Bendit as Self Peter Simonischek Peter Simonischek as Self Helene Partik-Pablé Helene Partik-Pablé as Self Carl Hegemann Carl Hegemann as Self
    FOREIGNERS OUT! SCHLINGENSIEFS CONTAINER is a thrilling, insightful, funny chronicle and reflection of one of he biggest public pranks and acts of art terrorism ever committed. Austria 2000: Right after the FPÖ under Jörg Haider had become part of the government, the first time an extreme right wing party became state officials after WW2, infamous German shock director Christoph Schlingensief showed a very unique form of protest. Realising public xenophobia and the new hate politics in the most drastic ways possible, he installed a public concentration camp right in the middle of Vienna's touristic heart, right beside the picturesque opera where hundreds of tourists and locals pass by daily. And it was no concentration camp you had ever feared to return from the old times, but one that cynically reflected our new multimedia culture. Satirising reality TV shows, "Big Brother" especially, a dozen asylum seekers were surveilled by a multitude of cameras, could be fed and watched by.
    Limbo 2020 POSTER

    Limbo

    2020

    English

    7.2

    19

    96%

    Action

    asylum seekers

    Comedy

    Drama

    island

    musician

    refugee

    scotland

    separation from family

    Ben Sharrock Ben Sharrock Director Ellie Haddington Ellie Haddington as Beatrice Silvie Furneaux Silvie Furneaux as Cheryl Grace Chilton Grace Chilton as Margaret Amir El-Masry Amir El-Masry as Omar
    An offbeat observation of refugees waiting to be granted asylum on a fictional remote Scottish island. It focuses on Omar, a young Syrian musician who is burdened by the weight of his grandfather’s oud, which he has carried all the way from his homeland.
    The Perfect Story 2022 POSTER

    The Perfect Story

    2022

    English

    7.1

    2

    asylum seekers

    Documentary

    refugee

    somalia

    Michelle Shephard Michelle Shephard Director
    The Perfect Story offers a riveting, intimate look at the ethical and moral challenges sparked by the relationship between a foreign correspondent and a young Somali refugee. By revealing the boundaries of journalism and filmmaking, the film questions what stories are told, why, and who gets to tell them.
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