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The 40th anniversary of Idi Amin's expulsion of Ugandan Asians in 1972 coincides with the festival of Dussehra in which Hindus celebrate the victory of good over evil. Victims of this forced migration to Great Britain re
In 'Exiled for Existing’, more than 40 lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer refugees and asylum-seekers in Glasgow explore the impact of having to flee a place to be yourself.
This feature documentary tells the story of 2 teens who head out west in search of self. Like a quarter of Vancouver’s itinerant youth population, Mélo and Ti-criss made the trip from Quebec, hopeful for a better life. S
Three alien criminals from the planet Tryzzia are exiled to a distant planet for their heinous crimes. The planet is Earth! Who will stand against these evil extra-terrestrials and thwart their killing spree, or are we a
Cha made Exilèe ("exiled" in French) following her first trip back to Korea in 1979. For this simultaneous film and video installation, she embedded a television monitor into a freestanding wall and projected a Super 8 f
A short film that explores the life of the Brazilian writer, sociologist, journalist, and activist, a key figure in the fight for rights of people living with HIV in Brazil.
The film highlights the history of the Crimean Tatar people—from their deportation in 1944 to their current resistance to occupation—and seeks answers about Crimea's future and the mechanisms for its return. The film fea
It’s 1968, the military dictatorship is established in Brazil. After murdering a soldier, Alice flees to her hometown, a place she left as a teenager, and hasn’t come back since then. At the bucolic house, she finds her
A Chilean teacher, Ramiro, is sentenced to internal exile in a southern town where tidal waves often appear. He falls for a woman, Maite, whose father asks him to take her away. Although he gets his freedom he doesn't le
During the alien invasion of 2022, one man flees through a wormhole to 1992, where attempt after attempt is made to catch and kill him.
It is a farewell story that focuses on the absolute loneliness Napoleon Bonaparte experienced during the final days of his life after being exiled to the island of Saint Helena, and his deep longing for his homeland.
Margarita Coppola, a member of the Communist Party, recounts her time in hiding during Pinochet's military dictatorship. She was persecuted and had to abandon her three daughters in order to secretly publish the newspape
A Ukrainian comic opera with spoken dialogue in three acts with music and libretto by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky (1813–1873). The orchestration has subsequently been rewritten by composers such as Reinhold Glièr
In part two of this six part series Oliver Tambo is sent abroad to run the ANC after it is banned in South Africa in 1960. This episode traces Tambo's efforts to bring the injustice of apartheid to the world's attention.
The film is told as a personal encounter with exiled Sri Lankan journalists who have been "silenced" and almost killed in their home country because they exposed war crimes, corruption and massacres of civilians.
The Wandering Jew tells the story of Arthur Levi (Jacob Ben-Ami), a German-Jewish artist who experiences the new German antisemitism when his masterpiece, a portrait of his Polish-born father entitled "The Eternal Wander