Oksijan
A 7-year old Afghan boy finds himself trapped in a refrigerated truck with 14 other refugees as they are smuggled into the UK.
A 7-year old Afghan boy finds himself trapped in a refrigerated truck with 14 other refugees as they are smuggled into the UK.
Saleem Haqdad
Ahmad
Ella Purnell
Inca
Noof Ousellam
Zain
Elham Ehsas
Jawad
A 7-year old Afghan boy finds himself trapped in a refrigerated truck with 14 other refugees as they are smuggled into the UK.
A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.
A dog that helped soldiers in Afghanistan returns to the U.S. and is adopted by his handler's family after suffering a traumatic experience.
Orphaned in Africa as a child, Lilly escapes to England as a refugee, fleeing civil war in Ethiopia. Lost in this cold new world, Lilly embraces the immigrant community in London, attempting to reunite people with their scattered families. But as her friend Amina discovers, Lilly's mission isn't purely selfless: a passionate lost love affair is revealed.
After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.
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Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor's guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.
A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.
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A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond.
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