Identities & Interests

Migrant Experiences

Films about their feelings, struggles and dilemmas

Nayib Moran, 2012

Dreams

An interview to a Mexican inmigrant who paints children faces in Alameda de Hércules square in Seville

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Aya Gaadan, 2018

The Beginning of a Dream

“No matter how hard your dream is, just try.” (quote from the filmmaker)

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Lucrezia Pollice, 2017

I-dentity

The film features a diverse mix of 18 actors all telling the same story. The film intends to invite young Muslims from around the UK to share their stories.

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Khalid Jone & AbdiHakin Nuur, 2018

Demonstration Call Out

This is a videocall to ask citizens of Amsterdam to join the demonstration in April 2018 in Amsterdam to raise awareness for the violation of human rights of undocumented refugees in Amsterdam.

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Abdi Deeq, 2017

Work Out

A young underage Afghan migrant flees into Turkey not knowing where to go or what to do next. While preparing for his next journey into Europe, he practices hard and soft kicks.

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Jade Jackman, 2017

Calling Home

Through phone recordings, we document the reality of being a female asylum seeker inside Yarls Wood detention centre.

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Voices of London, 2018

Flight

Young muslim voices

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Eric Bimule, 2018

We Are Here Intermezzo

Informative video about the situation of undocumented migrants of We Are Here in Amsterdam.

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Faseeh Choudhary, 2016

14 year old Faseeh Choudhary tells the story about how his favourite sport, cricket, has followed him through life, from Pakistan to Sweden. He uses a digital story telling technique with still images combined with a personal voice recording.

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British Red Cross, 2018

Survivor

A once died man comes back to life

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Gadaa Hunde, 2018

Video report: Eviction in Diemen

In this Video Refugee and journalist Gadaa Hunde (28) interviews refugees and supporters at the eviction of an occupied building in Diemen-Amsterdam.

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Abdi Deeq, 2017

A Borderless World

A glimpse into the journey taken by the unaccompanied asylum-seeking youth in Turkey.

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Nadia Aryeetey, 2014

Don't Bully My Pronunciation

15 year old Nadia tells about how it felt for her to go to a Swedish school when she was new in Sweden, and she struggled with the Sweidsh language.

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Eric Bimule, 2018

Vlog 5: They Are Welcome

Vlogger and refugee Eric Bimule (26) questions people on the street about hospitality in the Netherlands. Do Dutch people really give oppurtunity to refugees entering the Netherlands. Are refugees allowed to work and do they get acces to education?

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Eric Bimule, 2018

Vlog 3: Illegal Asylumseekers

Vlogger and refugee Eric Bimule (26) questions the use of the word 'illegals', in this vlog he interviews people on what they think about the word and why people use the word. No person is illegal!

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Eric Bimule, 2018

Vlog 6: It Is Not Safe There

Vlogger and refugee Eric Bimule (26) joins a demonstration (January 2018) in The Hague. The protest is about a deportation of an asylumseeker to Sudan.

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Eric Bimule, 2018

Vlog 2: Why Is Soccer Important To You?

Vlogger and refugee Eric Bimule (26) takes us to match of the refugee soccerteam We Are Here from Amsterdam and interviews the players.

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Eric Bimule, 2018

Vlog 7: Imprisonment

Vlogger and refugee Eric Bimule (26) questions alien detentiun. Why are people lockup if they didn't do any crime. Only because they don't have a passport.

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Ibsa Abdé and Cheikh Oumar Traoré, 2015

Crossing

Cheikh Oumar and Ibsa tell us how they cross the sea to come France, the difficulties they encountered and how they have finally made it to Europe.

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Eric Bimule, 2018

Vlog 4: We Are Here in Amsterdam and We Want Peace

Vlogger and refugee Eric Bimule (26) attends a demonstration and evictions of a We Are Here building in Diemen -Amsterdam. We see violence from police.

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Eric Bimule, 2018

Vlog 1: What is a refugee?

Vlogger and refugee Eric Bimule (26) walks through the city and asks random people on the street in the Netherlands: What is a refugee?

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Mulham Mohamed Hidel, 2018

It’s Not Hard

“You can change your life for the better despite the difficult circumstances you face.” (quote from filmmaker)

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Karim Al Rabat, 2018

The World Is Fine

“Do not give up, things will become better. After the rain comes the rainbow, it will shine after the storm.” (quote from the filmmaker)

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Ohmid Noori and Bassir Safi, 2013

A Distance

Bassir wants to come to France, but he has no money, can his brother Ohmid that is already in Marseille help him.

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Alicja Plachówna-Vasilevska, 2013

Proof

Does your husband sugar his tea? What colour is your wife's toothbrush? Which side of the bed does your wife sleep on? Alicja Plachówna (PL) could answer such questions in the middle of the night without hesitation. That is why her husband Boyan isn't "illegal" in Poland.

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Ellavled Alcano, Marta Girón, Pablo Domínguez, 2014

María Dolores

Maria Dolores, a fanatical South American, crosses the pond with the firm intention of achieving his dream: seeing his idol.

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Michelle Picinić, 2012

A Tenant in Seville

An interview to Isa, a woman who has much contact with exchange students in Seville

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Hamid Reza Rajaby, 2013

Limbo

"The first question they ask is 'Have you got any documentation?' It's kind of confusing, and sad sometimes"

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Lucas Tello, 2012

Kikiriwikis

'When you get close to the border, the first thing you see is the huge fence, when you get closer, you look down, at the break in the fence, and you can see ants going across'

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John Gómez, 2012

The Price of a Dream

'A long time ago, when the Earth was very young, a spirit helped people cross borders.'

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Wilson Teixeira "ICHA", 2012

Saudade (Transition)

This film was made by Wilson Teixeira 'ICHA' from Portugal for the Chez Nous programme.

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Magdalena Kuzar, 2013

Smuggler's ABC

"Hi, welcome again. Long time no see!" - a young girl speaks to a webcam. This could be the beginning of one of the thousands of video manuals about make-up or fashion. It could be, but the recording won't suggest the most trendy colours. Instead we will learn to effectively smuggle alcohol and cigarettes through the border.

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Hülya Mete, 2013

Migrant-Settler

“You are a frail migrant, how dare you aspire living in Byzantine? Get going and carry on or you will get a slap on your neck.”

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Akile Nazli Kaya, 2010

Ebb and Tide

A young woman who reads from her diaries about her life in the Czech Republic while showing the life of her parents from Turkey

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Memduh Can Tanyeli, 2013

Saddler

4 bankruptcies, 3 cities changed, what else could go wrong?

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Handan Kaygusuz, 2013

Bread with Roses, Roses with Bread

Every year, seasonal worker families of Arab origin start out their journey on a tractor from Urfa to Eskisehir and try to hold on to life in an area covered with almost 2500 tents.

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Jade Day, Levine Grant, Romana Khan, Nadiya gonsalves, 2010

My Mother Tongue

A documentary about 3 young people that moved to London when they were children.

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Fatih Bilgin, 2013

How Would You Like to Migrate?

“The freedom to migrate is sacred”

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Dennis Huarachi, 2012

Arrested without Papers

'They made me sign a deportation letter, I signed it'

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Ariana S. Cota, 2012

Self Portrait. Migration's Biographies

The idea arose from a conflict over two issues: the fact that looking back, I have always tried to live where I was born; and throughout my life I have shared the story of loved ones who have been migrants and immigrants.

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David Gallardo, 2012

Crossing

'To be migrant is different, to be migrant penguin is even much more different'

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ODS, 2011

Catalogue of stereotypes on inmigration

There are a lot of prejudices about inmigration in Spain. This is catalogue of them.

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Claire McCartney, 2012

Saved by Seville

How living abroad helped a girl getting over her anxiety problems.

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Francesca Togni, 2006

Travelling

Documentary film made by Francesca Togni (born 1990) from Italy.

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Clapham Film Unit, 2011

Uganda Refugee Heritage Project

A short double-bill that tells the stories of Paul and Isaac, two Ugandan refugees that left the country when they were young and have lived in London since.

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Ngoné Hajjar / Chez Nous, 2012

I'm Here To Stay

A black girl sits next to an old white man on the metro in Paris.

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Lucas Tello Pérez, 2012

Jorge

Jorge is a Senegalese inmigrant who lives in Jerez de la Frontera

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Salih Ahmed, 2013

Congratulations

Learning a new language can be challenging, but when you move to a new country and don't speak the native tongue, there's a lot more pressure to try.

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Cedoux Kadima, 2013

First Steps (Sorry + Please)

When Cedoux Kadima first came to the UK, he spoke no English, and had to try and navigate his way through London, picking up occasional words here and there.

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Pınar Idil Yakut, 2013

Separation

”Actually this place is not like a new home, but more like a new world. Everything is foreign, complicated here. All the things we learned all my life are not applicable.”

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