Una fiaba omerica che racconta il viaggio avventuroso di due giovani, Seydou e Moussa, che lasciano Dakar per raggiungere l’Europa. Un’Odissea contemporanea attraverso le insidie del deserto, i pericoli del mare e le ambiguità dell’essere umano.
Samba Cissé è senegalese e costretto da dieci anni in un centro di accoglienza alle porte di Parigi. In attesa di un permesso di soggiorno e incalzato dalla paura di essere espulso dalla Francia, Samba si rivolge a un'associazione che si occupa di questioni giuridiche legate all'immigrazione. L'associazione si prende a cuore il suo caso nella persona di Alice, una giovane donna borghese in congedo lavorativo. Affetta da sindrome da stress, Alice sembra trovare in Samba un rifugio e una ragione per uscire dall'impasse. Allo stesso modo Samba è convinto che Alice sia la chiave per regolarizzare la sua posizione sociale. Tra espedienti, mestieri, sotterfugi, baci rubati, fughe ai controlli e costante reinvenzione della sua identità, Samba troverà il suo posto nel mondo e nel cuore di Alice.
A Mexican farmhand migrates to America to better support his family, but his dream crashes to the ground when his wife and daughter can't meet him across the border.
An expatriate in Turkey, Claire pays the services of a smuggler to flee the country with her only daughter, whose custody she has just lost. But he abandons them in a dilapidated house in the middle of the forest.
A film about the unprecedented Swiss grassroots movement of regular citizens who rise to aid thousands of refugees stranded at the European borders. In rich and safe Switzerland people from all backgrounds leave their regular life behind to support people in need. There is a Swiss farmer and his wife who keep cows in the Swiss Alps, a former commander of the Swiss Army, an elder rich lady residing at the lakeside, and a successful comedian and entertainer. These unexperienced volunteers take on an adventure that will change their lives forever.
A boy migrates from Guerrero to Colima in Mexico, guided by the illusion of his parents, who want him to study high school. Nevertheless, the inequality barriers force him to work as a sugarcane harvester.
When Bella is asked to accompany her troublesome grandfather to the market, they all get a lot more than they bargained for.
A man and his dog cross the desert in search of La Frontera, a mighty river that represents the geographical limit with the neighboring territory. Exhausted, they manage to see their goal, but they must cross other obstacles before conquering its waters.
Spiros is one of the many new migrants from Greece who seek a better life in Australia. But as he soon realizes, new dreams come at a great cost.
The tragedy of the Syrian people: War, conflict, loss, migration, exile, asylum, detention, drowning… A deserted place. Abandoned people. Abandoned country. The doors slammed shot; the doors are now locked - the keys thrown away...for what seems forever.
A Tamil couple and an international student experience adjustment issues after moving to Australia.
Lila suffocates in her brother's hospital room, she his the road. Vintimiglia. Women are loading a truck for a food distribution for refugees who try to cross the border. It's ramadan, they must eat before the prayer. Carrying bread loafs in her arms, Lila meets Youssef. Youssef doesn't speak a word of french and he's starving.
With analog and digital material collected during her stay on a "Work Trip" taking care of children in an American kindergarten as a migrant. I'm not speak English proposes —as a visual autobiography— to make visible a phantasmagorical light as a metaphor for the sudaca's bodies that work in invisible care task. Migrant bodies who bear as an imperceptible force the North American Nation.
Enduring 28 days of relentless construction labor, Frank struggles to prep a house for painting amidst Phoenix's scorching pandemic summer.
Le voci di 14 migranti che lasciano le loro case, attraversano la Libia e raggiungono l'Italia dopo aver attraversato il Mar Mediterraneo, si mescolano in un'unica storia, rappresentando migliaia di altre storie affondate in fondo al mare.
In his animated documentary, Henri Marbacher imagines a way of echoing the account of the migratory journey of Agìr, a young Kurd having transited from Syria to Switzerland. Between the voiceover and the animated material, a dialectic is established that reconstitutes memories as a duty of remembrance. – Tom Bidou