A Step Without Feet (2020)

In focusing his attention on the competitors of Mr Gay Syria, director Ayse Toprak shatters the one-dimensional meaning of “refugee”. Using the pageant as a means of escape from political persecution, the organiser Mahmoud — already given asylum in Berlin — hopes to offer the winner a chance to travel as well as bring international attention to the life-threatening situations faced by LGBT Syrians.

1994年、ルワンダの首都キガリ。高級ホテル「ミル・コリン・ホテル」で働く支配人のポールは毎日順調に仕事をこなしていたが、ある晩、ホテルからの帰宅途中に街で火の手が上がっているのを発見する。＜アフリカのルワンダで内紛による大量虐殺の危機から人々を救った、実在のホテルマンの勇気と良心を描いたドラマ。主演はドン・チードル。テリー・ジョージが脚本、監督、製作を手がけ、1200人もの命を守り抜く男の勇姿をヒロイックに描き出す。日本公開は危ぶまれていたが、若者によるインターネットでの署名運動で公開が実現した。＞

A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.

A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.

ナイジェリアでクーデターが起き、反乱軍によって大統領一家が殺され同国は深刻な内戦状態に突入する。アメリカ政府は、まだナイジェリア国内に残るアメリカ人全員の速やかなる救出を決定。ジャングルの奥深くで難民の治療に当たっていた女医リーナ・ケンドリックスの救助には、米海軍特殊部隊シールのウォーターズ大尉が向かうことになった。

Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid raising suspicions from the inquisitive and ruthless authorities, they establish as a cover a fake diving resort by the Red Sea.

西暦2027年11月。人類は希望を失い、世界は恐慌状態におちいっていた。なぜか出産の能力が失われ、18年間にわたって全く子供が生まれないのだ。英国は軍事力で徹底的に抑圧することにより、秩序を維持していた。検問所に向かう途中、セオたちの車は暴徒の襲撃にあい、ジュリアンが撃たれて絶命。組織のアジトに逃げ込んだセオは、キーから衝撃の事実を告白される。なんと彼女は子供を身ごもっており、間もなく出産を迎えるというのだ。セオは彼女を連れ、命がけの逃避行を開始する。

One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.

コンビを組んでお尋ね者の懸賞金をだまし取っていたジョーとテュコ。二人はある日、逃走中の強奪犯から、20万ドルもの大金を奪う。だがその金をねらって、セテンサという凄腕のガンマンがやってきた……。三人の男たちの、虚虚実実の駆け引きをユーモラスに描いた痛快ウェスタン。

After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.

ALL SAINTS is based on the inspiring true story of salesman-turned-pastor Michael Spurlock, the tiny church he was ordered to shut down, and a group of refugees from Southeast Asia. Together, they risked everything to plant seeds for a future that might just save them all.

中東の貧民窟に生まれ、両親が出生届を出さなかったせいで法的に存在すらしていない少年。過酷で理不尽な状況に怒り、12歳の彼が両親を告訴するが……。中東の貧困と移民の問題を真正面からとらえた人間ドラマ。

トム・ハンクス製作・主演による実話に基づく社会派エンターテインメント。テキサス出身の下院議員チャーリー・ウィルソンが、アフガニスタンの惨状を知り、小国を護るためのプランを打ち立てるが……。

As daily airstrikes pound civilian targets in Syria, a group of indomitable first responders risk their lives to rescue victims from the rubble.

6歳の少女ハッシュパピーは、“バスタブ”と呼ばれるコミュニティーで、父親のウィンクと暮らしている。彼らは、閉鎖的な場所であったものの穏やかな日々を送っていたが、ある晩、嵐が全てを奪い去る。突然大好きな場所や仲間を失ったハッシュパピー。途方に暮れる状況の中、ウィンクが重病であることを彼女は察知し……。＜最年少でアカデミー賞主演女優賞にノミネートされたクヮヴェンジャネ・ウォレスがヒロインを演じた人間賛歌。世間から隔てられた場所で暮らす6歳の少女の目を通して、現実の厳しさと再生への道のりを躍動感あふれる映像で映し出す。わずか200万ドルという予算でメガホンを取ったのは、アカデミー賞監督賞にノミネートされた新鋭ベン・ザイトリン。カンヌ映画祭やサンダンス映画祭などでも話題になった独創的な物語に熱狂する。＞

In Zaatari, Jordan – one of the world’s biggest refugee camps – Maamun owns a little shop: a small white container aligned in a seemingly endless row of identical containers. There he repairs mobile phones of the numerous Syrian refugees. They are anxious to retrieve the devices’ content which consists of memories from the past, a time when the war had yet to begin and they were not yet refugees but just ordinary people. Maamun and his friend Karim invent a new way to satisfy their customers: they buy a printer to print the photos, allowing the camp dwellers to retrieve some of their identity. The film provides an insight into the daily goings-on in a refugee camp.

Orphaned in Africa as a child, Lilly escapes to England as a refugee, fleeing civil war in Ethiopia. Lost in this cold new world, Lilly embraces the immigrant community in London, attempting to reunite people with their scattered families. But as her friend Amina discovers, Lilly's mission isn't purely selfless: a passionate lost love affair is revealed.

Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited into it, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.

Hundreds of refugee children in Sweden, who have fled with their families from extreme trauma, have become afflicted with 'uppgivenhetssyndrom,' or Resignation Syndrome. Facing deportation, they withdraw from the world into a coma-like state, as if frozen, for months, or even years.

In 2015, the Syrian boy Aylan appeared dead on the beach in Bodrum, Turkey. The image shocked and alerted the world to the refugee crisis. The film imagines what would have happened to this child until the day of his death, when the boat in which he was with a family heading to Greece turned on the high seas. The story arises from a moment of magical realism, in which Aylan's spirit emerges from his body and wanders back to the world of refugees and those provoked by war, who escape to escape for a better life.