Asylum Seekers Movies

Mohammad is a young asylum seeker from Pakistan. To make a living, he works illegally as a night delivery worker. He strives for a better life in a...

It's 1990 and an Indonesian fishing boat abandons Iraqi and Cambodian refugees in a remote part of the Western Australia. Although most are quickly...

Documentary about asylum seekers in the Netherlands.

A Hungarian Secret Service official attempts to defect the country and earn political asylum in the West.

Examines how the Immigration and Naturalization Service decides who will be granted asylum in the United States. The applicant must have a...

Mirte is a cleaner in the reception centre for asylum seekers at the airport. She tries to forget her past through routine. When the charismatic West...

The lives of two asylum seekers fleeing post-social unrest in their home city intertwine in Britain, starting a romance that tests their resilience...

“I want to be a tiger. I am an atheist from Iraq and I am seeking asylum. About my hallucinations… It’s difficult. Horrible...

The Perfect Story offers a riveting, intimate look at the ethical and moral challenges sparked by the relationship between a foreign correspondent...

To cool the heat on the asylum debate - the biggest 'hot potato' in Australian politics, we took a hot potato food van around the country in the lead...

This documentary is a brief insight into the life of The Catholic Worker Farm, London. The Farm aims to provide accommodation, food, English...

The lives of a human smuggler transporting refugees to the Darién Gap, an asylum seeker in New York City, and frontline humanitarian...

A Russian mother and her queer son try to cope with their new situation, as the son, a political activist and radical artist, applies for political...

An urgent and powerful documentary, shot in a detention centre where asylum seekers trying to reach Australian shores are indefinitely detained....

A documentary film crew follows a young Iranian girl, Roya, after her request for asylum was denied and is forced to enter an illegal life on streets...

One inside, one outside. One thin line that creates “us” and “them”. The importance of the borders has again a huge impact in...

Mali - Algeria - Libya - Italy. Issa’s escape from West Africa to the European mainland lasted ten years. Everything was supposed to be better...

What does it mean to belong to a place, a country? In a south Tel Aviv elementary school, that question is addressed head-on by a fourth-grade class...

Belgium is often seen as a safe haven for LGBTQ+ individuals, but many asylum seekers face discrimination and oppression upon arrival. An animated...

Matar Dia, from Senegal, is now a mediation agent in an asylum center in Paris. He loves to draw, that’s why he painted the walls of the...