Entre Tierras (2023)

A documentary about the history of Ukrainian Cossacks in the Kuban.

Cada año miles de mujeres centroamericanas cruzan la frontera entre Guatemala y México, mujeres decididas que inician una travesía incierta, pero cargada de sueños. El transitado corredor migratorio Huehuetenango-Comitán, en la frontera chiapaneca entre ambos países, es uno de los más descuidados por los defensores de derechos humanos. La amenaza más grande a la que se enfrentan las mujeres durante su travesía se deriva de los estigmas que lugareños, familiares y extraños les imponemos con nuestra mirada y trato. A pesar de todo, llenas de tenacidad y valentía, ellas ven en el trayecto hacia el norte la posibilidad de salir de la miseria y darles una mejor calidad de vida a sus familias.

Tres hombres atraviesan la noche en el centro de una ciudad ajena. Desapercibidos, se sumergen en las sombras de sus historias, donde el tiempo se escurre por caminos inciertos y memorias que por momentos parecen cruzarse.

The extraordinary story of Swiss rapper Besijan Kacorraj, whose biggest problem is not having a Swiss passport. Besijan is deported to Kosovo after several armed robberies, although he has grown up in Zurich since the age of one.

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of whom became a filmmaker. It's a fascinating, maddening, sometimes even humorous look at what the director calls "a typical German story." (Film Forum)

The story of three Turkish men. They all grew up in Switzerland and all got deported after various criminal offenses.

In March 1943, twenty-year-old Ovadia Baruch was deported together with his family from Greece to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Upon arrival, his extended family was sent to the gas chambers. Ovadia struggled to survive until his liberation from the Mauthausen concentration camp in May 1945. While in Auschwitz, Ovadia met Aliza Tzarfati, a young Jewish woman from his hometown, and the two developed a loving relationship despite inhuman conditions. This film depicts their remarkable, touching story of love and survival in Auschwitz, a miraculous meeting after the Holocaust and the home they built together in Israel. This film is part of the "Witnesses and Education" project, a joint production of the International School for Holocaust Studies and the Multimedia Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In this series, survivors recount their life stores - before, during and after the Holocaust. Each title is filmed on location, where the events originally transpired.

Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are chained to their seats for 40 hours at worst. They are accompanied by police officers and immigration officials. The passengers are flown to their native countries, where they haven't set foot in in up to twenty years, and where their lives might be in danger. Children, wives and work are left behind in Switzerland. Near Geneva, in Frambois prison, live 25 illegal immigrants waiting for deportation. They are offered an opportunity to say goodbye to their families and return to their native countries on a regular flight, escorted by plain-clothes police officers. If they refuse this offer, the special flight is arranged fast and unexpectedly. The stories behind the locked cells are truly heartbreaking.

Las crisis migratorias han sido y son un tema de vital importancia, sobre todo durante las dos últimas décadas. En este tiempo, la Ruta Canaria se ha convertido en la principal vía de acceso a Europa desde España. “Aquí estamos” tiene como objetivo denunciar la vulneración de los derechos fundamentales de las personas migrantes que entran en España de manera irregular. El contexto de la crisis sanitaria de la COVID-19 ha dificultado la ejecución de los protocolos de recepción a los migrantes procedentes de África, evidenciando que la normativa de extranjería ha sido insuficiente a la hora de gestionar las llegadas de pateras a las costas. El documental hace un análisis de las normativas europeas a través de profesionales de diferentes sectores y el testimonio de primera mano de aquellos que lo han vivido.

In 1944 Crimean Tatars has suffered a long road in exile. It was accompanied by famine, illness and loss. In the first years of exile, almost half of deported Crimean Tatars died. But those, who survived, dreamed of only one thing - to return to Crimea. The documentary 1944 tells about the tragedy of all Crimean Tatars through several separate life stories. They are cherished by each Crimean Tatar family and must be remembered by all generations to come.

Young, inexperienced members of the Dutch Boarder Patrol undergo an intensive training on escorting refused asylum seekers to their homeland.

The film explores the destruction of a unique train station in Zurich and the construction of the new prison and police centre in its place. From the perspective of the filmmaker’s window, and with testimony from prisoners awaiting deportation, the film probes how we deal with the extinction of history and its replacement with total security.

This film begins, so to speak, where ‘Vol spécial’ left off. The reality of migration bears its teeth: Following a scuffle, 20-year-old Koumba from France is sent back to the place where she was raised – Senegal. She returns to the lost village of her ancestors hysterical, argumentative and unproductively rebellious. Now the mother of a toddler, she continues to come to terms with the two cultures; the outcome is unforeseeable, as is the outcome of this cinematic long-term observation. The risk of its failure due to its protagonist is palpable. But Koumba’s fascinating metamorphosis is also obvious, her body and character have taken on a more harmonious nature. All hope is not lost.

Since the fall of the Iron Curtain an estimated four million children have found themselves living on the streets in the former countries of the Soviet Union. In the streets of Moscow alone there are over 30,000 surviving in this manner at the present time. The makers of the documentary film concentrated on a community of homeless children living hand to mouth in the Moscow train station Leningradsky. Eight-year-old Sasha, eleven-year-old Kristina, thirteen-year-old Misha and ten-year-old Andrej all dream of living in a communal home.

What connects a photograph, the Second World War and a young couple? Set in the town of Kozienice, which was divided between the Polish and the Germans, the film follows Jewish photographer, Chaim Berman, through his family history, political persecution and work.

Documentary about Finnish Jews during WWII and their unique position as German allies.

Documentary about a "transportation commando" in Germany with the goal to deport 200 people to Albania...