In een voormalige mijnwerkersstad staat The Old Oak, de laatste kroeg van het inmiddels vervallen plaatsje in Noord-Engeland. De lokale bevolking kan zelf amper het hoofd boven water houden en ziet hun woonplaats steeds verder leeglopen. Kroegbaas TJ hoort zijn mopperende, vaste klanten zwijgzaam aan. Als dan de pub ook nog eens met sluiting wordt bedreigt, zorgt de huisvesting van Syrische vluchtelingen in het stadje voor extra onrust. Maar een onwaarschijnlijke vriendschap brengt de verschillende werelden voorzichtig tot elkaar, met The Old Oak als gezamenlijk middelpunt. In The Old Oak gloort er hoop in het besef dat we het toch samen moeten doen.

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.

Na verhuisd te zijn voor de universiteit, keert Leevi voor de zomer terug naar zijn geboorteland Finland, om zijn vervreemde vader te helpen bij het renoveren van het vakantiehuis aan het meer, zodat het kan worden verkocht.

Tareq, een recente asielzoeker uit Syrië, is ingehuurd om te helpen met het werk, en wanneer Leevi's vader voor zaken naar de stad terug moet, krijgen de twee jongemannen een band en beginnen ze aan een romance in de idyllische Finse zomer.

De dreigende terugkeer van de vader naar het huis aan het meer, de voortzetting van de studie van Leevi in het buitenland en de complexe relatie van Tareq met zijn familie in Syrië zijn echter de grootste verrassing.

In a war-torn Middle Eastern city where music has been banned by Islamic extremists, Karim, a brilliant musician, struggles to rebuild his destroyed piano while trying to escape to Europe.

Marius is een succesvolle advocaat in Vilnius. Hij raakt via een chatroom geobsedeerd met Ali, een aantrekkelijke Syrische vluchteling in Belgrado. De rijke Marius heeft een bruisend sociaal leven, gevuld met culturele ervaringen. Ondanks alle voorspoed voelt hij een leegte en een groot gemis in zijn leven. Litouwen en Servië liggen niet ver van elkaar, maar kunnen ze hun weg vinden door de kloof die hun uiteenlopende levens van elkaar scheidt? En hoe gaan ze om de obstakels van de fysieke grenzen die tussen hen in staan?

Cabir believes he killed a man while fleeing the police in the Turkish-Greek-Bulgarian border area. His feelings of guilt pursue him like a ghost. But is his victim actually the husband of Aliyes, the woman Cabir takes in, hiding, protecting him? Atmospherically dense, Turkish love drama about a refugee from Syria.

A glance at the divided U.S. political system through the eyes of a young Syrian refugee on the streets of Memphis, TN, as he faces the harsh realities of chasing the American dream.

Pensioner Roli comes to Fareed's assistance when the Syrian refugee is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife. Together they stumble into a bewildering forest of Swiss bureaucracy to which Roli finds beautifully simple answer.

On a Mediterranean shore, a Syrian father's decision to give his daughter a better life puts her in danger of losing it.

A look back over nine years of the Syrian Civil War, an inextricable conflict, like a black box, due to the competing interests of the many factions in presence and those of the foreign powers.

Asil is a young Syrian refugee awaiting documents in Turkey while processing the trauma of losing her home and family. Her story gives voice to a charming gigantic puppet named Amal, who represents millions of migrant and displaced children in a walk from the Syrian border in Turkey all the way across Europe. Escorted and animated by a group of puppeteers who are themselves refugees, Amal’s epic journey is one of compassion and discovery.

Even though Sami is safe in the United States with his 9-year-old daughter, Aya, the injures sustained during the war in Syria are making his life difficult. When news breaks that the rest of his family will arrive from a refugee camp, he should be as elated as Aya. But as Aya grows more eager to see her brother Saeed, Sami grows more anxious.

In 2012 Dalya and her mother Rudayna fled Aleppo for Los Angeles as war took over. Months before, Rudayna learns a secret that destroys her marriage, leaving her single at midlife. Arriving in LA, Dalya enrolls as the only Muslim at Holy Family Catholic High School. Can mother and daughter remake themselves while holding on to their Islamic traditions?

When a banker invites a sex worker to his London apartment, he finds himself coming face to face with both his own past, and one of the world's largest humanitarian crises.

This intimate documentary follows a group of Syrian children refugees who narrowly escape a life of torment and integrate into a foreign land.

Azat is a Syrian refugee who is trying to get to Germany. While passing through Bulgaria, he is accused of attempted manslaughter over a child and goes to jail. There he meets The Boss - Koko. The friendship between them changes both their destinies.

THE STORY WON’T DIE, from Award-winning filmmaker David Henry Gerson, is an inspiring, timely look at a young generation of Syrian artists who use their work to protest and process what is currently the world’s largest and longest ongoing displacement of people since WWII. The film is produced by Sundance Award-winner Odessa Rae (Navalny). Rapper Abu Hajar, together with other creative personalities of the Syrian uprising, a post-Rock musician (Anas Maghrebi), members of the first all-female Syrian rock band (Bahila Hijazi + Lynn Mayya), break-dancer (Bboy Shadow), choreographer (Medhat Aldaabal), and visual artists (Tammam Azzam, Omar Imam + Diala Brisly), use their art to rise in revolution and endure in exile in this new documentary reflecting on a battle for peace, justice and freedom of expression. It is an uplifting and humanizing look at what it means to be a refugee in today’s world and offers inspiring and hopeful vantages on a creative response to the chaos of war.

The happy life of a Syrian kid alters instantly with the sudden war and he finds himself in a state of struggle. The war changes not only lives, but also the role of his box; first as a carefully built toy house, then as a place to take shelter in a refugee camp with full of dangers and finally as a boat that sails for a journey towards hope.

A nine-year-old Syrian refugee girl contemplates her increasingly bleak future after being forced to drop out of school in the midst of Lebanon’s unprecedented economic collapse and battle with Covid-19.

Escaping war, a Syrian writer seeks asylum in Germany with his family. On the escape route he lost his wife so that only he and his daughter are left. Once they are settled in a refugee camp, he is forced to give his daughter to a German family. A moving story of forced assimilation and the struggle of the refugee in the modern world.