"Young Afghani Refugees Paint their Memories of War"
In the Skaramanga's Refugee Camp Greece, a group of refugee children from Afghanistan at the age of 10-13 paint their experience and memories from the war and their journey to Europe. In this short documentary they describe through their drawings their city as they remember it, the city that they've found shelter in and the city that they wish to live in the future.
In the Skaramanga's Refugee Camp Greece, a group of refugee children from Afghanistan at the age of 10-13 paint their experience and memories from the war and their journey to Europe. In this short documentary they describe through their drawings their city as they remember it, the city that they've found shelter in and the city that they wish to live in the future.
A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. Entering Turkey on foot through a snowy, Kurdish-controlled pass, the pair again take their lives into their hands and face suffocation when they are locked in a freight container on a ship bound for Italy. From there they plan to travel on to Paris, the Sangatte refuge centre and ultimately asylum in London.
A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.
The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere.
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. So he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences including that she's rich, he's poor, she's a city girl, and he's a country boy the two become fast friends. Together they create Terabithia, a land of monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants where they rule as king and queen.
A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.
The unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse traveling together in the boy's search for home.
The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiring artist, she secretly documents her harrowing journey with her drawings.
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.