The Refugees Welcome Film Festival

30.9. - 6.10.2021

The Refugees Film Festival has been born due to the necessity to highlight the enormous drama of the crisis of millions of people in the XXI century that must leave their homes searching for a better life or only escaping from death.

Through a selection of films from all across the globe, the Film Festival aims to raise awareness of common persons that had changed radically their way and place of living and that depict circumstances in a desperate bid for freedom or only to survive.

Ranging from blockbusters to independent films, the program aspires to shed light on their situation and contexts, their fears, losses, hopes, successes, and their despair, courage, and resilience.
The line-up also includes stories of resilience and hope, population under war, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), racial persecutions against native Americans, genocides against minorities, etc.

Also, the film festival includes productions made with and by women, men, and children in their new lives in the cities or places of temporary settlement. The Film Festival will also be featuring special guests from the films, including the filmmakers, actors, and protagonists.

In one week of programming, we will have more than 50 great films from more than 20 different countries. Mostly will be premiere in Europe.

We will see great shorts and features, dramas, and documentaries with tons of nominations and awards in the most important film festivals all over the Word.

This window to the best of the movies about this interesting and actual issue, that cross not only Europe-Middle East-Africa, but also different regions with migrations (international and internal, Natives of the Americas, etc.), past, and current migrations because old wars, like in Vietnam and Cambodia, discrimination in between neighbors in Berlin, governmental repression against Afroamericas and Hispanics in the USA, social crisis because of the COVID-19, and beautiful and poetic movies that go beyond the issue of migration to the condition of the Human Being, upcoming wars (¿?) in Northern Europe, Worker Class Solidarity that cross the Atlantic, etc., will permit here, in Berlin, empathize with millions and millions of Humans that exist, and not only in the queue of Ausländerbehörde.

We hope that the third edition of the Refugees Film Festival could help to understand, through the cinema, this complex reality that is going on in the entire world.

More info in https://www.refugeesfilmfest.com     https://babylonberlin.eu/programm/festivals/rff    
All the films have English subtitles
(if the language spoken in the movie is not English)