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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Note 1: The screening platform is limited to Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR. Note 2: *Special screenings of “The Cave” and “Beyond the Raging Sea” are available in late June in cinema. Please refer to ...

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It was not the rampant bloodshed they had witnessed that most bothered Kosovo natives fleeing their embattled land a dozen years ago during the breakup of Yugoslavia. Nor was it the lack of adequate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...