Syrian Refugee Movies

A look back over nine years of the Syrian Civil War, an inextricable conflict, like a black box, due to the competing interests of the many factions...

"Dance or Die" is a moving documentary about a young Syrian dancer who escapes the war and finds a new life in Holland. But the ghosts of the past...

A 3-year-old girl and her family's long journey from a Greek refugee centre to Uppsala.

Aporia tells the story of someone caught in the midst of cultural, religious, ethnic, and national conflict. After fleeing Syria, Haleem hopes to...

In 2012 Dalya and her mother Rudayna fled Aleppo for Los Angeles as war took over. Months before, Rudayna learns a secret that destroys her marriage,...

When a banker invites a sex worker to his London apartment, he finds himself coming face to face with both his own past, and one of the world's...

Azat is a Syrian refugee who is trying to get to Germany. While passing through Bulgaria, he is accused of attempted manslaughter over a child and...

A nine-year-old Syrian refugee girl contemplates her increasingly bleak future after being forced to drop out of school in the midst of...

On a Mediterranean shore, a Syrian father's decision to give his daughter a better life puts her in danger of losing it.

Two Syrian refugee girls document each others' attempts at making their first films.

As the Syrian war continues to leave entire generations without education, health care, or a state, Lost in Lebanon closely follows four Syrians...

The happy life of a Syrian kid alters instantly with the sudden war and he finds himself in a state of struggle. The war changes not only lives, but...

Documentary about sharing our cultures through universal themes like music, family, friends, and art. Within the backdrop of Berlins winter...

After an attempt to bring Syrian refugees into the predominately white New England town of Rutland, Vermont, unleashes deep partisan rancor, a...

Set as an experiment in a simulated cell in Oslo, three former political prisoners are locked up for three days with no film crew, to revisit their...

Close to 80,000 Syrian refugees live in the Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan, the second-largest such camp in the world. Fifty-eight percent of its...

As politicians debate and argue, the men, women and children at the heart of the European immigration wave have found themselves caught in the midst...

Refugees are captured by border patrol officers as one woman escapes to find herself surviving on her own in a foreign land.

Ahmed flees his war-torn homeland of Syria and faces discrimination in Iraq. The people of the new society he joins make it impossible for him to...