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FR 2023, 91 min, Director: Benoit Cohen, with: Fanny Ardant
France has been living alone in her apartment since her husband’s death. When she hears on the radio that an NGO is putting in touch homeless migrants and people who are willing to welcome them, she decides, against her family’s opinion to welcome Reza, a young Afghan broken by war and exile. Two worlds meet, and they begin to hold each other’s hands.
Multi-awarded film with Fanny Ardant!
The Refugees Film Festival (RFF) is born due to the necessity to highlight the enormous drama of the crisis of millions of people in the XXI century who must leave their homes searching for a better life or only escaping from death.
Through a selection of films from all across the globe, the RFF aims to raise awareness of common persons who had changed radically their way and place of living in a desperate bid for freedom or only to survive.
Ranging from blockbusters to independent films, the program aspires to shed light on their situation and contexts, their fears, losses, hopes, successes and their despair, courage and resilience.
The line-up also includes stories of resilience and hope, population under war, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), racial persecutions against native Americans, genocides against minorities, etc.
The RFF includes productions made with and by refugees in their new lives in the cities or places of temporary settlement. The RFF also features special guests from the films, including filmmakers, actors and protagonists.
The 8th Refugees Film Festival presents a remarkable selection of cinematic works, from short films to feature-length productions, featuring both acclaimed European stars like Fanny Ardant and new gems like “Leather & Deforestation” and “The Pool of Nobodies”.
This festival deconstructs the topic of migration by exploring the root causes that force millions to leave their homes. The films navigate a global landscape, from the forced emigration of Native Argentines from the Chaco region to Buenos Aires, due to deforestation, to the journeys of Central Americans traveling to the USA in search of a better life, and the movement of Eastern Europeans into Germany drawn by its comprehensive welfare system. We are not just covering immigration into Europe, but rather migration as a universal, human phenomenon.
This new chapter of the Refugees Film Festival invites you, in the comfort of your home in Prenzlauer Berg, to dive into the desperate struggles of millions of people who simply want to live, and sometimes, also buy a new iPhone. It is an opportunity to connect with the raw, human stories behind the headlines and to witness the universal desire for a life of dignity and hope.
