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Docs about refugees

  • An animated still from Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s ‘Flee’ showing the Afghan male protagonist Amin and the white, Danish filmmaker. Courtesy of NEON.
    December 8, 2021

    'Flee' Documentary Deploys Animation to Address Traumatic Memories

    At the end of August 2021, the images of frantic Afghanis crowding Kabul airport were a stark reminder of the despair with which people flee their
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  • June 25, 2020

    Doc Stars of the Month: Cheyenne Adriano and Mari Timans, 'Unsettled'

    Taking Best Documentary Feature Film at last year's Outfest, Tom Shepard's Unsettled , an IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund grantee, adheres to every
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  • February 4, 2020

    Dancing for Their Lives: 'Walk Run Cha-Cha' Finds Joy on the Ballroom Floor

    When filmmaker Laura Nix walked into a dance studio in the San Gabriel Valley to find 40 people ballroom-dancing in the middle of the day, she
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  • February 2, 2020

    Refugee Trauma: 'Life Overtakes Me' Documents Kids in Comas

    John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson co-directed the Oscar-nominated documentary short Life Overtakes Me , an IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund grantee
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  • February 17, 2019

    'Lifeboat' Documents the Mediterranean Migrant Crisis

    Filmmaker Skye Fitzgerald’s upbringing in Oregon defied the norm, even in a state known for alternative lifestyles. Consider the family dog: his name
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  • June 20, 2018

    Watch and Share These Five Documentaries for World Refugee Day

    June 20 th is World Refugee Day. It has been 18 years since the United Nations General Assembly declaration and 67 years since the 1951 Refugee
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  • March 30, 2016

    Tales from Refugee Camp: 'Life on the Border' Offers a Kids-Eye View

    This year's Berlin International Film Festival presented a special screening of Life on the Border, a gripping project initiated and produced by Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi. Over the past years Ghobadi has tirelessly narrated stories of the Kurds, the largest ethnic group without a state; their population spans from southeastern Turkey to northwestern Iran, northern Iraq and northern Syria.
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