refugees Archives

Between humanitarian tourism and moral compromise

Ketil Fred Hansen / October 1, 2018

A new and insightful anthology discusses disaster relief’s many dilemmas.

Africa, black market, chad, congo, disaster, Doctors Without Borders, Europe, gender equality, Haiti, Healthcare, inequality, Middle East, Migration, refugees, Syria

Exodus – Catch 22

Ellen Lande / January 19, 2018

The Chinese contemporary artist and filmmaker Weiwei delivers a captivating life and death fresco of homeless hordes of people in Technicolor.

Afghan, African, Africans, Ai Weiwei, authorities, backpacks, banks, bargain, Berlin, blankets, border, CAMP, childhood, children, China, Chinese, Christmas, Christmas tree, CNN, conflicts, dirt, drone, drone footage, EU-Libya agreement, Europe, ferry, food, Gaza, Greek, helicopter, Human Flow, humans, inhumanity, Iraqi, Kenya, Konzerthaus, labour, labour camp, Libya, Macedonian, New York, refugee, refugee boat, refugee camps, refugee crisis, refugees, slave, survivors, Syrian, tents, tiger, Turkey, UNHCR, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Weiwei

Re-humanizing refugees

Willemien Sanders / December 9, 2017

With a calm and unobtrusive approach, filmmaker and anthropologist Laurent Van Lancker lets inhabitants of the now demolished Calais camp describe their separate society on their own terms.

Kalès, Laurent Van Lancker, refugees

Not around my luxury villa

Ketil Fred Hansen / December 1, 2017

AFRICA: If this book is translated into English, it will become a new French academic bestseller.

Africa, Bourdieu, Delhi, education, homeless in the, paris, poor, refugees, São Paulo

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

Truls Lie / February 22, 2017

The screening of Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt was followed by a panel debate.

Ada Ushpiz, hanna arendt, Israel, MTR1, philosophy, refugees, totalitarian, Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

Stay Away. We are the Horror

Dieter Wieczorek / February 2, 2017

Questioning Australia’s Refugee Politics.

Australia, Chasing Asylum, eva orner, refugee camps, refugees

Refugees, aestheticized

Truls Lie / November 7, 2011

Can a refugee in a film become too aesthetic, losing his ethical relevance?

accursed, African, Arctic, death, Denmark, Fantôme Créol, fishermen, Giorgio Agamben, Globalization, HOTDOCS, human, Iain Chambers, Imagining Emanuel, immigrant, Isaac Julien, Italy, Jørgen Leth, Lampedusa, Leopard, Liberia, Libya, Luchino Visconti, monthslong, Norway, norwegian, Norwegian Government, Oslo, Place des Cineastes, political refugee, refugee, refugees, sand, ship, Small Boats, social workers, Soldiers, Stanford university Press, Thomas A. Østbye, WESTERN UNION, «biopower»

Some things only come out at night

Steffen Moestrup / November 7, 2011

Nikolaus Geyrhalter travels to the dark side of a Europe filled with lives at night: loneliness, sadness, death, refugees, drunken and somewhat foolish people, sex for money, illness and surveillance.

Abendland, airport, Austrian, Brussels, crematorium, DA Films, death, drunken, dungarees, eeriness, Europe, European Parliament, factory, foolish, foolish people, Gentleness, hospital, hospital room, illness, incubator, loneliness, master, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Oktoberfest, panoramic view, refugees, sadness, sex, sex for money, surveillance, Vertov, Wolfgang Widerhofer

The story of Cuban refugees

Lucinda Broadbent / April 1, 2003

Balseros (Spanish: Rafters) is a 2002 Catalan documentary co-directed by Carles Bosch and Josep Maria Domènech about Cubans leaving during the Período Especial.

Balseros, Carles Bosch, Carles Bosch and Josep Maria Domènech., Cuba, Josep Maria Domènech., Período Especial, refugees