Fogo no Mar (2016)

A family history archive as told by matriarch Azalu Mekonnen and her granddaughter Samira Hooks.

By land, by air, and by sea, viewers can now experience the struggle that millions of creatures endure in the name of migration as wildlife photographers show just how deeply survival instincts have become ingrained into to the animals of planet Earth. From the monarch butterflies that swarm the highlands of Mexico to the birds who navigate by the stars and the millions of red crabs who make the perilous land journey across Christmas Island, this release offers a look at animal instinct in it's purest form.

Each year over 1.2 million wildebeest travel across the vast Serengeti plains and Kenya's Masai Mara on a 1,800 kilometer circular journey, relentlessly followed by every big African predator. Revolutionary spy cams - airborne, swimming or disguised as rocks, skulls or dung - reveal the Great Wildebeest Migration from entirely new perspectives. This 2-part series focuses on the growing-up of a calf as he takes his first steps, faces his first deadly perils and tries to cross crocodile-infested rivers. It combines natural humor with exciting drama and gripping music.

At the beginning of the 60's, thousands of Portuguese turned up in France through the underground. They were fleeing misery, war and repression. Left to unscrupulous smugglers, they had to cross the Iberian Peninsula tracked by the Portuguese and Spanish police. For many, the voyage towards France turned into a disaster. As a child in a shantytown, the author remembers having heard about these terrible odysseys. Thirty years later, he goes in search of the stories of his childhood and seeks to understand what sparked this unprecedented emigration known as the "plebiscite by foot" against Salazar. Between childhood memories and historical investigation, he looks for the images of this exodus, the largest in post-war Europe.

Curta-documentário com entrevistas a migrantes que vivem no Nordeste, contando suas memórias, jornadas, desafios na migração e com a pandemia da Covid-19. Realizado pelo Grupo MIGRA com recursos do Edital de Apoio à Pesquisa em Criação Artística da PROExC/UFPE.

The vege­ta­bles come from the garden behind the house, the fish comes out of a can, and money for bread is earned at the factory. It’s because of this money that they came here. Women from Turkey stand side-by-side with women form Meck­len­burg at the conveyor belt of a fish-proces­sing factory in Lübeck. Their hands are stained brown, the pungent smell of fish clings to them, and their arms and backs ache. If these jobs were done by men, machines would have been invented long ago to replace them. But female labour is cheap and the women do not complain. They have learned to work – and therein lies the source of their pride. (Source: https://www.artechock.de/film/text/filminfo/g/ge/gefubr.htm)

Um cineasta imigrante decide fazer um filme caseiro sobre suas experiências biográficas em Paris reencenando a história de um casal de estrangeiros em crise. Paralelamente, de férias no Brasil, questiona sua relação com a cidade e com o país.

The Mejia family emigrated from Oaxaca to Fresno, California 40 years ago. Filmmaker Trisha ZIff filmed the family in 1996, and returns now to see the changes that have settled over them, and follows the family on their return to Mexico.

Partitions draws on photographs, state documents, audio recordings and footage of domestic spaces and routines, to tell a story of Sindhi migration following the Partition of India in 1947. Inspired by the life of a woman who was born in Hyderabad, Sindh, grew up in Madras (Chennai) and lived the rest of her life as a Singaporean, the film juxtaposes fragmented recollections of the past with enduring practices of the present.

Follow Chris Cotter, an American traveler, as he explores a common migration path through Ethiopia and into Israel, tracking the plight of Eritrean refugees. Chris and his crew visit several refugee camps, including the never-before-documented Afar region. The refugees tell stories of oppression, torture, and survival. Searching for solutions, Chris speaks to various NGOs and experts, including Assistant Secretary of State, Anne Richard. The outlook is bleak, but the spirit of the Eritrean refugees is hard to ignore.

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.

A saga dos trabalhadores de origem rural nordestina ao chegarem ao grande centro industrial do país.

Five Afghan men try to reach Europe. The filmmakers followed them for over six months, filming their clandestine journey and chronicling a migration combining fantasy and stark reality, setbacks and achievements, in the midst of the dangers of such trips.

A humorous observation in Barcelona’s immigrant neighbourhood El Raval. Four barber shops, four places of remembrance, strange time and space capsules inhabited by people who left their home to find a better one, while the Spaniards are about to leave their own country themselves.

A high-rise apartment built in the 1960s provides housing for 2500 people from 42 nations. Separated from the city by a river and bounded by towering sandstone cliffs, everyone attempts to live and survive in their own way. Foreigners who have a go at being Swiss, and Swiss who observe with scepticism. They meet in the corner shop run by an Iraqi living in exile, send their kids to a children’s club managed by a missionary, and old drinking mates meet regularly over a beer in the neighbourhood’s only bar. Despite all the differences, they are rather proud of the fact that they come from here.

ADRIFT- People of a Lesser God is the story of an incredible odyssey made by several-times Pulitzer Prize-nominated undercover reporter Dominique C. Mollard. In this gripping story, Mollard sails with 38 African migrants, among them a five-month-old baby, out of West Africa on a quest to reach the golden shores of Europe. All aboard are packed together like sardines in a leaky fishing canoe as they set off under full moon on their harrowing journey. ADRIFT-People of a Lesser God captures the struggle of these desperate migrants as they brave their way across the cold Atlantic, risking their lives in search for a better future. —Ziad H. Hamzeh

Almost eight years ago the family of Marcela Gómez separated. His parents and younger sister emigrated to the United States and lived in Cali, Colombia. While reconstructing the history of her family through the home movies they sent her in the mail, Marcela questioned the phenomenon of third world migration to the great powers and how these powers assume an immigrant.

A metaphor of the Flood in our times, The Flood is the rain of violence that washes over us. Noah´s Ark is the train that runs through Mexico toward the United States and migrants are the species attempting to save their lives. For the directors, cinema moves people not just by condemnation, but by confronting and fostering emotions which lead to new, constructive ideas. This documentary became a cinematographic diary for their first viewer, their three-year-old daughter, Zafirah.

Vencedor do Oscar de Melhor Filme Estrangeiro, este conto à la Fellini de decadência e amor perdido encontra um jornalista envelhecido na Itália relembrando seus dias em meio à exuberante vida noturna de Roma após seu 65º aniversário.

A história do aspirante a escritor, Nick Carraway, que deixa o Oeste para ir para Nova Iorque na primavera de 1922, uma era de baixa moral, de um jazz deslumbrante e de reis do contrabando. Perseguindo o Sonho Americano, Nick instala-se perto da casa do misterioso milionário Jay Gatsby e também da casa da sua prima Daisy e o seu mulherengo marido de sangue-azul, Tom Buchanan. É assim que Nick é atraído para o cativante mundo dos super-ricos, das suas ilusões, dos seus amores e deceções. Nick assiste, dentro e fora do mundo em que habita, à história de um amor impossível, sonhos incorruptíveis e amargas tragédias, levando-nos até às nossas lutas do mundo atual.

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial na Itália, o judeu Guido e seu filho Giosué são levados para um campo de concentração nazista. Afastado da mulher, ele tem que usar sua imaginação para fazer o menino acreditar que estão participando de uma grande brincadeira, com o intuito de protegê-lo do terror e da violência que os cercam.

Ao chegar a Los Angeles, Sebastian o pianista de jazz conhece a principiante atriz Mia e do inesperado, apaixonam-se intensamente. À procura de oportunidades para as suas carreiras na competitiva cidade, os jovens vivem na esperança que o seu relacionamento funcione na perfeição.

Através de três turbulentas décadas, Forrest cavalga numa cadeia de eventos que o levam da incapacidade física até ao estrelato no futebol, de herói do Vietnam a empresário de pesca de camarão, de honras na Casa Branca aos braços do seu verdadeiro amor. Forrest é o símbolo de uma era, um inocente à solta numa América que está a perder a sua inocência. O seu coração sabe o que o seu limitado QI não consegue saber. O seu compasso moral nunca balança. Os seus triunfos tornam-se numa inspiração para todos. Forrest Gump, é a história de uma vida.

Um artista pobre e uma jovem rica se conhecem e se apaixonam na fatídica jornada do Titanic, em 1912. Embora esteja noiva do arrogante herdeiro de uma siderúrgica, a jovem desafia sua família e amigos em busca do verdadeiro amor.

Um ladrão que rouba segredos corporativos por meio do uso da tecnologia de compartilhamento de sonhos, recebe a tarefa inversa de plantar uma ideia na mente de um Diretor Executivo.

Um homem deprimido que sofre de insônia conhece um estranho vendedor de sabonetes chamado Tyler Durden. Eles formam um clube clandestino com regras rígidas onde lutam com outros homens cansados de suas vidas mundanas. Mas sua parceria perfeita é comprometida quando Marla chama a atenção de Tyler.