The late critic Roger Ebert once compared movies to “a machine that generates empathy.” Stepping into the shoes of another person by watching a great film can help bridge huge divides like almost no ...
Oscar and BAFTA nominee Jonathan Pryce, star of The Two Popes, The Crown and Slow Horses, has come aboard the short film ...
Featuring award-winning films from Tunisia, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Canada, Congo, and the U.S. The annual WNY Refugee Film Festival (WNYRFF) has become a real eye-opener into the struggles, hopes, and ...
“As refugees we are better placed to talk about issues that affects us and by all means we should be empowered to tell our stories,” says Abdul Patient – refugee filmmaker and one of the founders at ...
The Paramount Theatre will screen the documentary Salam Neighbor at 6 p.m. Monday. The film looks at life in the Za atari refugee camp in Jordan, home to people fleeing the conflict in Syria. The ...
In her 2022 Toronto curtain raiser “The Swimmers,” telling the true story of two Syrian sisters and their emotional and gruelling journey to Europe to escape the civil war, director Sally El-Hossaini ...
Five refugee documentaries will be running from Monday 13 to Thursday 16 June, at the Book Club “Yfantourgeio”, bringing to you the real stories of refugees around the world. The film week is ...
Johnny Greenlaw. Photo Courtesy of Johnny Greenlaw. Johnny Greenlaw. Photo Courtesy of Johnny Greenlaw. Actor, director, and producer Johnny Greenlaw talks about his new film “The Refugee.” The ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - In 2015, with Germany facing turmoil after flinging its doors open to a million refugees, Berlin repurposed a defunct airport to house them, creating an ad hoc village that is the ...
Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia is the latest high-net-worth individual to get involved in the documentary business. As a producer on Waad Al-Kateab’s “We Dare to Dream,” about the refugee Olympic team ...
The acclaimed, three-time Oscar nominee has been the target of attacks by Poland's right-wing government, which has compared her new refugee drama to "Nazi propaganda." By Scott Roxborough Europe ...