A Mandolin in Exile
The Modhurchora Refugee Camp, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, is the largest of its kind in the world, where millions of Rohingya refugees are confined. In this hopeless land, filled with the extreme despair of existential s
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The Modhurchora Refugee Camp, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, is the largest of its kind in the world, where millions of Rohingya refugees are confined. In this hopeless land, filled with the extreme despair of existential s
The exiled Austro-German musician and composer Artur Schnabel was a giant of his time, but in Germany today he is nearly forgotten. Pianist and Schnabel devotee Markus Pawlik (in collaboration with baritone Dietrich Hens
The unpublished correspondence between the great musician Pau Casals, and the Catalan poet Joan Alavedra, and the accounts given by experts, will tell the story behind the creation of The Manger, a musical composition bo
Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.
Set in the early 1970s, it tells the story of a Chinese-Japanese student who returns to her native Hong Kong after graduating from a university in London. Once she arrives back home, she and her family begin to fight, la
In an impoverished neighborhood of Casablanca, Morocco, Fatima awaits impatiently for news from her husband in exile. Will she finally receive the immigration papers that will potentially secure a brighter future for her
Exile is not the subject of the narrative. Polynices, banished from the city, is not the protagonist but rather a figure of omission, reduced to a shadow. A shadow whose traces can be discerned only through contemplative
Tahir Agha sells all his assets when his business in Maraş deteriorates. He immigrates to Istanbul with his wife Hatice, sons Selim, Murat, Kemal and daughter Fatoş, where he sets his mind to open a repair shop. But in t
In the shadow of a tree Salamatu separates pebbles from the beans she has found at the local market square. Nighttime is coming and her children are hungry. Gmanun is packing 14 years of life in bags and preparing to go
This film focuses on Trotsky's exile in Buyukada, Istanbul, one of the first places the revolutionary theorist settled to live and write after Stalin forced him into exile in 1929.
Nursel Aydoğan, Fırat Anlı and Zülküf Karatekin are linked by political exile in Europe after threatened prison sentences in Turkey.
Filmed over midsummer 2019 in Fife, Scotland. This film accompanies a 358 page book.
A terrible disaster tore people from their homes and scattered them across the world. But apparently, human nature is such that they are drawn to their native land. And so they return, defying the restrictions and mortal
A documentary that follows Anya, a woman residing in Ukraine during the early stages of the war, who tells her story and contemplates how countries will treat her fellow Ukrainians who were forced to flee.
Sons and daughters of Argentinian exiles during the last dictatorship tell their story.
A man is a guest of the EDEN Hotel. He can enjoy its luxuries with no limits, except for one room. The room becomes the most interesting place for the man. The animators illustrate the biblical story with a beautiful cut
A year has passed since the presidential elections in Belarus, when the current government harshly suppressed protests against falsified results. Thousands of people are still in prisons, tens of thousands were forced to
This feature documentary looks at new evidence that suggests the majority of the Jewish people may not have been exiled following the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD. Travelling from Galilee to Jerusalem and the catacombs of
Venom - A Diva in Exile is based on the short story by writer Zsófia Bán, on the troubling story of Hungarian singer and film star Katalin Karády. She was accused of spying during the war, imprisoned, tortured and banned