Short film based on the personal experiences of the director, who used to be an asylum seeker himself. A young man seeks asylum in the Netherlands. He is received, gets a toilet roll, a plate of Brussels sprouts and a sleeping place in a caravan. Tired, but with a smile on his face, he falls asleep. Nine years later, he sings a Dutch song in the early morning, when he is deported from the country in a police van.
Lukman Atrushi
Alex Berson
Ann Nicole Tazelaar
Short film based on the personal experiences of the director, who used to be an asylum seeker himself. A young man seeks asylum in the Netherlands. He is received, gets a toilet roll, a plate of Brussels sprouts and a sleeping place in a caravan. Tired, but with a smile on his face, he falls asleep. Nine years later, he sings a Dutch song in the early morning, when he is deported from the country in a police van.
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
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 man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.