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- DirectorMario de la Torre EspinosaEva Patricia FernándezHarraga is an illegal immigrant who do it by land, by air or by sea. With no visa, nor passport. Out of the law (...) Yes, that's the key, outlaw ... but what happens when those harraga are kids?
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsLamia BoussekineNabil AsliSamir El HakimSet in the northern Algerian port city of Mostaganem. The title refers to the hordes of refugees, the 'Harragas', who smuggle themselves out of the country via any means possible. Here we meet one such group, Rachid, Nasser and Imene who pay a smuggler, Hassan, to take them to Spain in his rickety boat. Along with a group of African and Arab migrants, they are risking all they have to cross the stormy Straits.
- DirectorGerardo OlivaresStarsAdoum MoussaAminata KantaMahamadou AlzoumaThree people looking for a better life become stranded in desert with little hope of survival in this drama from Spain.
- DirectorEmanuele CrialeseStarsFilippo PucilloDonatella FinocchiaroGiuseppe FiorelloA Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
- DirectorPhilippe LioretStarsVincent LindonFirat AyverdiAudrey DanaBilal sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe and wants to get to England to see his love who lives there.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsRiccardo ScamarcioOdysseas PapaspiliopoulosLéa WiazemskyDesperate to escape the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a smuggler ship to France. This is the beginning of his odyssey across Western Europe to Paris, where miraculous promises, new friends, and dangers await him at every turn.
- DirectorOlivier Masset-DepasseStarsAnne CoesensAlexandre GontcharovMilo Masset-DepasseA single mother of a thirteen-year-old boy from Belarus seeks refuge in Belgium with dreams of a better life, but instead, she will be incarcerated and separated from her son, risking deportation.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsKierston WareingJuliet EllisLeslaw ZurekAfter being fired from her job, Angie teams up with her flatmate to find employment for immigrants.
- DirectorGianfranco RosiStarsSamuele PucilloMattias CucinaSamuele CaruanaCapturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsAndré WilmsBlondin MiguelJean-Pierre DarroussinWhen an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home.
- DirectorAbdellatif KechicheStarsSami BouajilaÉlodie BouchezBruno LochetA young illegal immigrant from Tunisia tries to survive in the world of Paris miseries.
- DirectorMerzak AllouacheStarsGad ElmalehMessaoud HattauMagaly BerdySalut Cousin! is the tale of two Algerian cousins and their mishaps in the racially volatile environment of Paris.
- DirectorXavier KollerStarsNecmettin ÇobanogluNur SürerEmin SivasThe story of a poor Turkish family who try to emigrate illegally to Switzerland.
- DirectorEmmanuel FinkielStarsElsa AmielNicolas WanczyckiHaci AslanA group of Kurdish refugees tries to get to Great Britain. A female student travels through Europa. A young executive relocates a factory to Hungary.
- DirectorAndrea SegreStarsAbraham Kwasi AppiahJamadu BagayogoJohn Kofi BoatengJanuary 2010, Rosarno, Calabria. Widely publicized immigrant riots exposed the unjust and squalid conditions that thousands of African laborers, exploited by an economy controlled by 'Ndrangheta, the calabrian mafia, endure on a daily basis. For a brief moment the immigrants caught the attention of the Italian public, who responded to these protests with fear and violence. In a few hours the immigrants in question were "evacuated" from Rosarno and the problem was "resolved." But the faces and the stories of those involved in the riots at Rosarno tell a different story. Revealing these stories and giving them voice is the only way we can return to these memories: memories of those days of violence, memories of a not-so-distant history of rural poverty in Rosarno that is often overlooked.
- DirectorRasmus Gerlach
- DirectorAndrea SegreDagmawi YimerStarsDamallash AmtatawNegga DemitseJohannes EyobSince 2003 Italy and Europe have asked Libya to stop the African migrants. What are the Libyan police really doing? What do thousands of African men and women suffer? And why does everybody pretend they do not know about it?
- DirectorFernand MelgarThe personal stories of the people from all around the world waiting for a decision in an asylum-seekers centre in one of most restrictive countries in the world, Switzerland.
- DirectorFernand MelgarA 9 months immersion in the administrative detention center of Geneva, one of the 28 deportation centers in Switzerland.
- DirectorDitte Haarløv JohnsenEvery year thousands of Africans leave their families behind and risk their lives in hope of a better life. Days of Hope, brings us close to these people, providing an inside look at the struggles these emigrants face.
- DirectorRoland SejkoStarsIvo CalebottaEneida del PreteAvni DelvinaIn early March 1991, a number of ships laden with men, women and children appeared off the Adriatic coast of southern Italy. It was the beginning of the so-called "Exodus of the Albanians." Never before in the post-war period had a mass emigration of such proportions taken place. Who were they? What were they running away from? And where are they today, 20 years later?
- DirectorAndrea SegreStefano LibertiIn 2009 Berlusconi and Gaddafi signed an agreement to control migration flows between Italy and Libya. Since then, all migrants intercepted at sea by the Italian navy were forcibly pushed back to Libya, where they have been exposed to any kind of abuses by local police. Our documentary film project aims to tell the unknown side of this story: how this 'push-back policy' has been implemented, what actually happened on the boats, what subsequently happened to migrants after their deportation to Libya.
- DirectorAntonio AugugliaroGabriele del GrandeKhaled Soliman al NassiryStarsTasneem FaredAbdallah SallamA Palestinian poet and an Italian journalist meet five Palestinians and Syrians in Milan who entered Europe via the Italian island of Lampedusa after fleeing the war in Syria. They decide to help them complete their journey to Sweden, and hopefully avoid getting themselves arrested as traffickers, by faking a wedding. With a Palestinian friend dressed up as the bride and a dozen or so Italian and Syrian friends as wedding guests, they cross halfway over Europe on a four-day journey of three thousand kilometres.
- DirectorJonas CarpignanoStarsAlassane SyKoudous SeihonAdam GnegneTwo men make the dangerous journey from Africa to Italy for a better life, but then face hostility and violence in this shocking look at the life-and-death struggle of refugees.
- DirectorBoris LojkineStarsJustin WangEndurance NewtonNabyl Fally KoivoguiOn his clandestine journey from Cameroon to Europe through the Sahara desert, Léonard meets Hope, a Nigerian girl who's following the same dream.