FILMS

The Visitor

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Genres: Fiction
Related Countries: U.S.A.
Release Year: 2007
Running Time: 104min
Audio: English, Arabic,French
Subtitle: Japanese
Story:
A chance encounter in New York City grows into a strong friendship between a lonely college professor and a young musician. All goes well until one of them is being deported back to his country since the immigration authorities find that his asylum application had been denied..

Yodok Stories

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Genres: Documentary
Related Countries: Norway,Poland
Release Year: 2008
Running Time: 82min
Audio: Hangeul
Subtitle: Japanese,English
Story:
Over 200,000 men, women and children are imprisoned in North Korean camps. Occasionally, opponents of the dictatorship succeed in fleeing the country. Some of them, now living in Seoul, South Korea, decided to make a unique and controversial musical based on their experiences in the ‘Yodok’ concentration camp.

God grew tired of us

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Genres: Documentary
Related Countries: U.S.A.
Release Year: 2006
Running Time: 89min
Audio: English
Subtitle: Japanese
Story:
3 lost boys from Sudan resettle in America, where they are given 3 months to find they way to live. This is an inspiring story of their triumph in their own words with Brad Pitt as a producer and Nicole Kidman as a narrator.

Molly and Mobarak

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Genres: Documentary
Related Countries: Australia
Release Year: 2003
Running Time: 85min
Audio: Englihs
Subtitle: Japanese
Story:
Mobarak, a young Afghan refugee falls in love with an English teacher Molly. Their relationship runs into difficulties, when the town is split between those in favor of the refugees and those not. Mobarak fills the screen with his pure feeling for her.

The Refugee All-Stars

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Genres: Documentary
Related Countries: U.S.A.
Release Year: 2005
Running Time: 50min
Audio: Japanese dubbing
Subtitle: No English Subtitle
Story:
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars are a band of six Sierra Leoneanmusicians living in a refugee camp in Guinea.They have lost everybody and everything in the civil war, but theybring hope and happiness to their fellow refugees through their music.

Everybody’s Children

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Genres: Documentary
Related Countries: Canada
Release Year: 2008
Running Time: 52min
Audio: English, French
Subtitle: Japanese
Story:
Both Sallieu and Joyce seem like ordinary teenagers living in Toronto. Having revealed their tragic background, the camera features strong and courageous refugees making new lives for themselves in a city away from home.

Cambodia Dreams

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Genres: Documentary
Related Countries: New Zealand,Cambodia
Release Year: 2008
Running Time: 65min
Audio: Khmer
Subtitle: Japanese,English
Story:
The film chronicles the parallel lives of a family divided by the Thai-Cambodian border after the Khmer Rouge regime. The hopes and the dreams finally come true as the family reunites in their Cambodian village after 12 years in the refugee camp.

War child

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Genres: Documentary
Related Countries: U.S.A.
Release Year: 2008
Running Time: 94min
Audio: English
Subtitle: Japanese
Story:
Before becoming a successful rapper, Sudanese born hip hop artist, Emmanuel Jal, served for nearly 5 years as a child soldier in the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army. With the help of an aid worker, he escaped the army. Ever since, Jal has dedicated himself to peace in Sudan and a better future for Africa.

BURMA VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country

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Genres: Documentary
Related Countries: Denmark
Release Year: 2008
Running Time: 84min
Audio: Burmese,English
Subtitle: Japanese,English
Story:
Images from the regime of Burma (Myanmar) are rarely seen outside the country. In 2007, 30 Burmese video reporters provided the world’s press with secret recordings of human rights violations, thereby risking their own lives.

THE MOST SECRET PLACE ON EARTH

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Genres: Documentary
Related Countries: Germany
Release Year: 2008
Running Time: 75min
Audio: English
Subtitle: Japanese
Story:
The film reveals the story of the most extensive clandestine operation in the history of modern warfare. The secret war in Laos, which was conducted alongside the Vietnam War, displaced hundreds of thousands of people.