The Jump

2020

Lithuanian

8.3

♡ 1

100%

Giedre Zickyte Director

Henry Kissinger as Self

Gerald Ford as Self

Ann Ingham as Self

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

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.

Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container

7.7

Paul Poet Director

Daniel Cohn-Bendit as Self

Peter Simonischek as Self

Helene Partik-Pablé as Self

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

English

7.2

♡ 19

96%

separation from family

Ben Sharrock Director

Ellie Haddington as Beatrice

Silvie Furneaux as Cheryl

Grace Chilton as Margaret

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

English

7.1

♡ 2

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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