https://www.migrationcollective.com/home daily 1.0 2025-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1482245734375-LGXIL9DTSWIRQS123F3Y/Screen+Shot+2016-12-21+at+1.54.52+AM.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1482323186273-HDG8KY5VRORIL32K6XUR/section+4.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/b216984c-0247-465a-87f0-f82cf253895d/Screenshot+2025-10-19+at+08.54.12.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1729973602039-Q1RNZ7UB84A7VDIQZYMC/Screenshot+2024-10-26+at+21.12.55.png Home https://www.migrationcollective.com/london-migration-film-festival-2022 daily 0.75 2023-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/88d5a973-8b72-4649-8e0f-161c0b1b1bbb/01+Joe+und+Semret-Edit+FG-RGB_+%C2%A9Pascal+Mora.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2022 - * UK premiere * Film: Semret + Q&A Semret lives with her daughter Joe in a small apartment in Zurich, working in a hospital and studying to be admitted to midwife training. The young mother does everything she can to ensure her teenage daughter has a better life than the one she left behind in Eritrea. When Joe begins to press to know more about her origins, Semret must confront her own past, and the sheltered life she has built for herself in Switzerland threatens to disintegrate. At once highly specific and universally accessible, this story is set within the unique context of Switzerland, the only country in Europe that returns Eritreans to Eritrea. This touching tale of a mother and daughter’s competing interests in relation to their ‘home’ country offers a keen insight into the role of trauma in forced migration. Dir: Caterina Mona; Length: 1hr 25 25 Nov, 6:10pm. Genesis Cinema (E1 4UJ). Get your ticket https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/74e4b09e-4671-4150-b094-6e0433dc8102/Freda+-+photo+1.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2022 - Film: Freda + Q&A Freda lives with her family in a poor neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince. They make ends meet thanks to their small street shop. Faced with precarious living conditions and the rise of violence in Haiti, each of them wonders whether to stay or leave. But Freda wants to believe in the future of her country. A beautiful and subtle examination of the many reasons people, and Haitians specifically, choose to leave or that ultimately drive them to stay. A uniquely Haitian story of political optimism, economic migration, and violence told through the eyes of three very different, but equally powerful, women. Dir: Gessica Geneus; Length: 1hr 33 25 Nov, 8:20pm. Garden Cinema (WC2B 5PQ). 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Screened alongside short film: The Bayview (dir: Daniel Cook, 18:18min) Followed by a Q&A with director Tomás Fernández Vértiz Dir: Tomás Fernández Vértiz, Length: 53mins 26 Nov, 6pm, Catford Mews (SE6 4JU) Get your ticket https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/2cfd1042-49a8-4d35-a58a-e968f94d7ac6/Screen+Shot+2022-10-27+at+22.30.29.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2022 - Short films: Femininity and migration * SOLD OUT * See link above for a full description of each film They’re Playing My Song: Josephine (dir: Thom Andrewes, Catherine Carter, Miriam Sherwood, Will Gardner) The Sparrow Is Free (dir: Niki Kohandel) The Curtain (dir: Kateryna Pavlyuk) Those Names (dir: Ines Saidi) Ancora Non Lo So (dir: Maaria Sayed) Violeta & Sofia (dir: Alejandra Rogghe Pérez, Noah Isa Berhitu) This Is Forever (Dir: Susy Pena) Forgotten in Exile – Conchis (dir: Sarah Bougsiaa, Sinai Stengel) 26 Nov, 3pm. Upstairs at the Ritzy (SW2 1JG). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/12a52540-0523-48c0-82c6-dd501ac320d2/A+tale+of+love+and+desire+still+1.png London Migration Film Festival 2022 - Film: A Tale of Love and Desire + Q&A In collaboration with T A P E and Birds’ Eye View we present a special screening of A Tale Of Love and Desire written and directed by Leyla Bouzid. The screening will be presented with We Wrote In Symbols editor Selma Dabbagh. A Tale of Love and Desire follows Ahmed, a 18-year old French-Algerian, who meets Farah, a young Tunisian girl. One born in France, and the other in Tunisia the result is an identity questioning culture clash. In their lessons about Arab literature Ahmed discovered more than just a collection of sensual and erotic tales as he tries to resist the desire he feels for Farah. Dir: Leyla Bouzid; Length: 1hr 42 26 Nov, 5:40pm. Genesis Cinema (E1 4UJ). Get your ticket https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/8cb31bc0-0392-4af9-a7e7-bab5b2038158/POSTER+Landscape.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2022 - Workshop: Through the Foreign City * SOLD OUT * Through the Foreign City is a multi-disciplinary workshop exploring how moving from one space to another can challenge or nurture us. We will use theatre exercises as well as life drawing to reflect on how emotions are expressed, remembered and communicated when stepping into a foreign city. Together, we will explore our sense of agency and our ability to bring about social change. This activity is open to any person aged 13+ and we will provide childcare for families with younger children. Workshop run in collaboration with WassleArts, Babylon Project and Shahre Farang Stories. 26 Nov, 1:00pm, Upstairs at the Ritzy (SW2 1JG) Get your ticket https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/04947e58-e104-42cb-b074-ccb91d4b7a48/queen+of+glory+poster.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2022 - Film: Queen of Glory + Q&A A love letter to immigrant daughters that feels familiar, but never “Hollywoodified” The story of Sarah Obeng, the brilliant child of Ghanaian immigrants, who is quitting her Ivy League PhD program to follow her married lover to Ohio. When her mother dies suddenly, she bequeaths her daughter a Christian bookstore in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx where Sarah was raised. A follow-up on the classic immigrant's tale, Queen of Glory provokes laughter and empathy, as its heroine is reborn through her inheritance. Dir: Nana Mensah; Length: 1 hr 18 26 Nov, 2pm. Garden Cinema (WC2B 5PQ) Get your ticket https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/a3e91c8f-b4c7-4c73-b23e-d0621fed20b7/overseas.jpeg London Migration Film Festival 2022 - Film: Overseas + Q&A * SOLD OUT * In the Philippines, many women get deployed abroad to work as domestic workers or nannies. To do so, they leave their own children behind, before throwing themselves into the unknown. In one of the training centres dedicated to domestic work in the Philippines, a group of trainees are getting ready to face both homesickness and the possible abuses lying ahead. Bordering on fiction, Overseas considers the role and reality of modern slavery within in a globalised world, while emphasising these women’s determination, sisterhood, and the strategies they find to face the ordeals that awaits them in the near future. Dir: Sung-a Yoon; Length: 1hr 30 26 Nov, 6pm. Bertha Dochouse (WC1N 1AW) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/dcf976d3-fc62-457a-95c5-be7eaed18ffc/nudo+mixteco+new+still+.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2022 - Film: Nudo Mixteco Three lives intersect in a Mixtec community in the highlands of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. During the festival of San Mateo, María, Esteban and Toña return to their birthplace. They all left for different reasons, and different reasons are bringing them back, but they each have something in common: their families need them back. Dir: Ángeles Cruz; Length: 1hr 31 27 Nov, 2pm. Garden Cinema (WC2B 5PQ). Get your ticket https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/491f2ed7-8f9a-4257-b347-2b11964dc61e/smash+raids+van.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2022 - Interactive Panel Discussion: On Solidarity and Dissent Most people - migrants and non-migrants alike - want similar things: a comfortable and dignified life, human rights and worker's rights for all, to be 'heard' by the political system, strong public services, safety & peace. But people are angry and everyone wants someone to blame: Brexit, Covid, the cost of living crisis, climate emergency, growing inequality. Within this context, refugees and other people on the move have been turned into scapegoats - in a classic 'divide and conquer' tactic where power is maintained by sewing division. To counter this, we need a radical solidarity: one that recognises and actively resists the 'divide and conquer' tactics. But what could this solidarity look like? How can we meaningfully dissent to the current political treatment of migration and resist the dehumanising rhetoric about migration that seeks to divide us? How can we highlight the similarities between people of differing beliefs? What can we do that actually makes a difference? Join us for an interactive panel discussion with activists, experts by experience, and more to think about how we can bring people together, what meaningful solidarity looks like, and how we can resist! 27 Nov, 1pm. Upstairs at the Ritzy (SW2 1JG). Get your ticket https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/fc7113fe-570d-4ba8-b8dc-0b3db3b26581/aaf85370-8168-4b07-9690-383036a1a337.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2022 - * UK premiere * Film: Leaving to Remain + Q&A Three Roma living in England, but tied to central Europe, film themselves over a critical period as their lives are transformed by the combination of Brexit and Covid. All three face the universal dilemmas of an emigrant; an ambivalent yearning for their home country and an ambition to succeed in their adopted home. Yet all three are conscious of their particular Roma heritage, a community that is almost never depicted on screen. Screened as part of Made in Prague Festival and in collaboration with Czech Centre London Followed by Q&A with director Mira Erdevički and the main film protagonists Denisa Gannon, Petr Torák and Ondrej Oláh Dir: Mira Erdevicki Length: 1hr 30 27 Nov, 6:15pm, Genesis Cinema (E1 4UJ). Get your ticket https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/49ea7740-ca5f-4039-87d1-088fac8f395a/warsha+still+1.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2022 - Short films: Our favourites of 2022 * SOLD OUT * Bee Whisperer (Dir: Dhivya Kate Chetty) My Mother’s Tongue (Dir: Sapana Pun) There Are Lights (Dir: Nadia Emam) Mogoneba, memories of a journey (Dir: Mar Garro Lleonart) The Place That Is Ours (Dir: Dorothy Allen-Pickard, Zena Agha) Life, In There (Dir: Rozalinda Borcila) Not Go Gentle (Dir: Sasha Ihnatovich) Warsha (Dir: Dania Bdeir) 27 Nov, 3pm. Upstairs at the Ritzy (SW2 1JG). Get your ticket https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/22e34686-faac-4e71-91e8-d10d1a4d6c82/this+rain+will+never+stop+.jpeg London Migration Film Festival 2022 - Film: This Rain Will Never Stop + Q&A After they fled the war in Syria, the Suleyman family scattered across Europe and the Levant. Lazgin lives with his family in Ukraine, while his brothers are in Germany, Kurdish Iraq and Syria. This Rain Will Never Stop, a visually-arresting but a gentle documentary exploring how people who had to flee their homes twice cope with and build new lives, follows Lazgin's family, as they encounter yet another military conflict, this time in Ukraine. Whether to escape the war or help relieve the suffering on site - such is the dilemma that the family struggles with. 28 Nov, 6.30pm. SOAS, Khalili Lecture Theatre (WC1H 0XG) Get your ticket https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/375d074f-deb5-4286-a80b-95a551bd0e4e/Wild_Relatives_1.67.1%282%29.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2022 - Film: Wild Relatives + Q&A Deep in the earth beneath the Arctic permafrost, seeds from all over the world are stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault to provide a backup should disaster strike. Wild Relatives starts from an event that has sparked media interest worldwide: in 2012 an international agricultural research centre was forced to relocate from Aleppo to Lebanon due to the Syrian Revolution turned war, and began a laborious process of planting their seed collection from the Svalbard back-ups. Following the path of this transaction of seeds between the Arctic and Lebanon, a series of encounters unfold a matrix of human and non-human lives between these two distant spots of the earth. It captures the articulation between this large-scale international initiative and its local implementation in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, carried out primarily by young refugee women. Dir: Jumana Manna; Length: 64mins Screened with short film: Born in Damascus (dir: Laura Wadha; Length: 15:06min) 28 Nov, 6.20pm. Lexi Cinema (NW10 3JU) Get your ticket https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/a6e2b591-494f-4b3d-990c-631f18c0a52f/future+tense+-+marriage.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2022 - Film: The Future Tense + Q&A ‘In different places, different thoughts emerge.’ Irish artists, Desperate Optimists (aka Molloy and Lawlor) have spent three decades in England – raising their now nearly-adult daughter Molly, and putting down creative and personal roots. In The Future Tense, they consider whether it’s now time to make a move, in an essay film as erudite as it is funny. They explore their own migration story, those of many before them and ask: ‘does Ireland have an addiction to mass emigration?’ And if so, how has English colonialism shaped that? Dir: Joe Lawlor & Christine Molloy; Length: 1hr 29 29 Nov, 6:20pm, Bertha Dochouse (WC1N 1AW) Get your ticket * If you get an error message when booking, please refresh the page! * AND Tickets available at the box office on arrival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/bf93aa0b-c955-4940-8c09-d797c2e3b04c/borom+taxi+good+still.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2022 - Film: Borom Taxi Mountakha is a Senegalese man and a newcomer in Buenos Aires. In Dakar he used to work as a truck driver and he tries to get that job in this new city as well. While working as a street vendor in the meantime, he wonders if his destiny might be related to acting, as some of his new friends have a special bond with cinema. A tone poem of a film that explores a city hidden within a city. Through meditative songs and sounds we unpeel the layers of Mountakha’s life as he grapples with work, being undocumented, maintaining connection with a family so far away, and the warmth of home versus the joys of the life he has found in Argentina. Dir: Andrés Guerberoff; Length: 1hr 1 Screened alongside short film: Traana (Temporary Migrant) (A film by Raphaël Grisey, Kàddu Yaraax, Bouba Touré) 29 Nov, 7pm, Room B103, SOAS University of London (WC1H 0XG) Get your ticket https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/8fa912ba-7caf-4338-8792-32cbae562e3b/conveniencestore3.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2022 - Film: Convenience Store (Produkty 24) + Q&A Mukhabbat, an Uzbek immigrant, works at a convenience store on the outskirts of Moscow. Just like the rest of the immigrants at the store, she is forced to work without getting paid and endure mental and physical abuse, until the day she overcomes her fear and takes her fate into her own hands. Based on true events and active legal cases of immigrants in Russia, Convenience Store captures the terrible aspects of modern slavery in a visceral blend of realism, documentary style, and operatic-scale cinema. Dir: Michael Borodin; Length: 1hr 46 29 Nov, 6.15pm, Lexi Cinema (NW10 3JU) Get your ticket https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/0341b9c8-207a-4067-ad56-d914cf22c591/linafromlima_0HERO.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/4b31d53f-4dab-40f8-825f-58a202184984/xaraasi+xanne.jpeg London Migration Film Festival 2022 - Closing night film: Crossing Voices (Xaraasi Xanne) + pre-screening discussion with director Using rare cinematic, photographic and sound archives, Crossing Voices recounts the exemplary adventure of Somankidi Coura, an agricultural cooperative created in Mali in 1977 by western African immigrant workers living in workers’ residences in France. The story of this improbable, utopic return to the homeland follows a winding path that travels through ecological challenges, neo-colonialism, and conflicts on the African continent from the 1970s to the present day. Join us for a free pre-screening discussion with director Raphaël Grisey Dir: Raphaël Grisey and Bouba Touré; Length: 2hr 3 30 Nov, 8pm for director ‘meet & greet’. 8:50pm for film screening. Genesis Cinema (E1 4UJ). 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Saied Silbak trio: Saied Silbak is a Palestinian composer and oud player born in Shafaa`mr, a city located in the lower Galilee of occupied Palestine. His newly formed trio brings to light a mixture of his own original compositions as well as songs from the classical Arabic and Turkish repertoire, exposing the audience not only to his beautiful and highly crafted compositions, but also to some of the most well-known composers of the golden age of Arabic music. Saied is joined by Fred Thomas on double bass and Hanen Kiwan on percussion. Ernesto Chahoud: Ernesto Chahoud is a renowned DJ, compiler and music researcher from Beirut who brings the most danceable and sometimes strangest records from the Middle East, Ethiopia, and beyond to people’s ears. He co-founded the Beirut Groove Collective and hosts monthly radio shows on NTS and Totally Wired Radio. 24 Nov, Upstairs at the Ritzy (SW2 1JG) 7pm for live band + DJ set 9pm for DJ set ONLY Get your ticket https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1665773631098-YNRZ0NGONKTIGAQSFHWV/Screen+Shot+2022-10-14+at+19.52.23.png London Migration Film Festival 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1665773631098-YNRZ0NGONKTIGAQSFHWV/Screen+Shot+2022-10-14+at+19.52.23.png London Migration Film Festival 2022 https://www.migrationcollective.com/london-migration-film-festival-2023 daily 0.75 2024-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/5d13006e-6c34-4e08-b76a-6a56cdda936e/London+Migration+Film+Festival+Opening+Gala.jpg Lmff 2023 - *Opening Gala* Film: Riceboy Sleeps + Q&A Join us for a night of celebration and solidarity at the opening gala of the the 8th London Migration Film Festival, with stalls, and exhibition, and a special screening of Riceboy Sleeps, followed by a panel discussion on the role of film in challenging narratives on migration. Riceboy Sleeps: Set in the 90s, a Korean single mother raises her young son in the suburbs of Canada determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind. Emotionally frozen, they live in an in-between space between a Korean past they were forced to leave behind and a Canadian present. Including stalls by: Hackney Migrant Centre, The Road to Nowhere, IRMO, SoldariTee, Chutney Magazine & more! Presented in collaboration with SOAS Centre for Migration & Diaspora Studies Dir: Anthony Shim | Length: 1h 57m SOAS, Brunei GLT | Doors 6pm; Film 6:30pm | Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/746f161b-3ad7-4472-981a-7bf7be5ceef5/happiest.jpg Lmff 2023 - Film: The Happiest Man in the World + Q&A * UK premiere * “Sarajevo’s recent history is enacted as a ritual of love and war – a dangerous, ambivalent courtship dance” Asja, a single 40-something woman in Sarajevo, meets Zoran, a 43-year-old banker, at speed dating. But it turns out that Zoran is not there looking for love, rather for forgiveness. During the siege of Sarajevo in 1993 he shot at the city from the opposite side, and he wants to meet his first victim. Now, in their search for resolution, if not love, both must examine the traumas of their past and confront the borders that divide them. Dir: Teona Strugar Mitevska | Length: 1h 25min Genesis Cinema | 6:30pm | Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/f4c04758-2bc4-44f6-89bc-7d88bf577014/On+Freedom+Of+Movement+-+wi+de+muv+%28STILL+2%29%281%29.jpg Lmff 2023 - Short film, talk & afterparty: The Beauty of Movement: Arts and research for new migration narratives Moving between places and across borders is much more than just crossing them. It is a journey of ideas, talent and cultures. The beauty of movement is in the experience shared by so many, and the creativity, ideas and hopes of the people making these journeys. Yet, too often this beauty remains an untold migration story. Hosted by Marta Foresti and Eka Ikpe; featuring the screening of ‘On Freedom of Movement (wi de muv)’ directed by Julianknxx followed by a panel with Federica Fragapane, Khalid Albaih, Gabriella Gómez-Mont and Adama Sanneh (CEO of Moleskine Foundation) In collaboration with LAGO, ODI, Phaidon and Moleskine Foundation Shoreditch Arts Club | Film: 6pm; Afterparty 7pm | Tickets (free) RVSP at: events@lagocollective.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/c1e31f68-9435-4f39-abad-a11a642006d1/R.M.N._still_4.jpg Lmff 2023 - Film: R. M. N. + Q&A Matthias is moving back from Germany to his village in Transylvania. Mahinda, Alick and Rauff are gearing up to work in the local bakery, having moved from Sri Lanka to Romania in search of work. And a French scientist is counting the bear population of the village – a place where the villagers feel forgotten by the EU and institutions meant to represent them. Underlying frustrations and fears soon grip the populace, erupting through the veneer of understanding and calm. R.M.N. – the Romanian abbreviation for an MRI – is a slow-burn drama about a community within the European project wrestling with xenophobia and emigration, that probes at the root of a simmering societal anger. Panel: Olivia Vicol (Work Rights Centre); Lara Parizotto (Migrant Democracy Project); and Rosie Carter (Hope Not Hate) Dir: Cristian Mungiu | Length: 2h 5m Phoenix Cinema | 7:45pm | Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/2758e894-5d51-44a3-8fb2-10b044b9db53/no+uturn.jpg Lmff 2023 - Film: No U-Turn + Q&A with director & producer As a young man, Ike Nnaebue tried to flee to Europe. Twenty years later, he retraces the steps of his previous journey to find out what motivates people today to expose themselves to the dangers of a passage into an uncertain future. Presented in collaboration with SOAS Centre for Migration & Diaspora Studies Dir: Ike Nnaebue | Length: 1h 32m SOAS, Brunei GLT | 6.30pm | Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/fe4c61d4-f7d2-4827-810d-6f7c358726cb/Harvest+Moon_still4.jpg Lmff 2023 - Film: Harvest Moon (Эргэж ирэхгүй намар) *UK premiere* Tulgaa returns from Ulaanbaatar to his childhood home in the steppe to care for his dying stepfather, honouring his remaining commitments by lending a hand with the summer harvest. While working in the fields he meets a cocky young boy, Tuntuulei, who lives alone with his grandparents while his single mother works in the city. Despite getting off on the wrong foot, the two soon find common ground and form a delicate bond that will transform their lives. A tender film that explores fatherhood, and the bonds that can be created when fathers and mothers are absent due to migration. Dir: Amarsaikhan Baljinnyam | Length: 1h 30m Genesis Cinema | 8.45pm | Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/fc302b8c-fca5-4910-abda-abeb72f994cf/eat+bitter.jpg Lmff 2023 - Film: Eat Bitter + Q&A Against the backdrop of civil war in the Central African Republic, Luan, a Chinese construction manager and Thomas, a local sand fisherman, work on opposite ends of the spectrum to construct a sparkling new bank. As deadlines loom, unexpected twists threaten their jobs, relationships, and plans for a better life. Presented in collaboration with SOAS Centre for Migration & Diaspora Studies Dir: Pascale Appora Gnekindy & Ningyi Sun | Length: 1h 35m SOAS, Brunei GLT | 6.30pm | Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/482b2373-bc8b-4b38-9d23-9af16c37fbc0/GFG_By_The_Throat.jpg Lmff 2023 - Film: By the Throat + Q&A with directors * UK premiere * Opening with the story of Shibboleth which saw the Ehpraimites slaughtered when their inability to pronounce ‘shibboleth’ gave away their identity, By The Throat is an experimental documentary that explores the role of language as a deeply engraved border, albeit an invisible one. One that defines the sounds and words we can pronounce. We carry these limits with us, created by our mother-tongue, and they turn us into mobile check-points, wherever we go. Panel: Effi & Amir (directors of By the Throat); Dr Peter L. Patrick (Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Member of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex) Dir: Effi & Amir | Length: 1h 17m Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) | 6:30pm | Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/58da9c9f-c569-4120-8ae7-59f5156c8342/1380247_dirtydifficultdangerous1_208227_crop.jpg Lmff 2023 - Film: Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous + Q&A * SOLD OUT * Screened with short film Aziza (Dir: Soudade Kaadan) Beirut, Lebanon. Ahmed, a Syrian refugee, and Mehdia, an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker, are living an impossible love. While Mehdia tries to free herself from her employers, Ahmed struggles to survive by dealing in second-hand metal scraps, all while being affected by a mysterious disease that is turning his body slowly into metal. This charming film, reminiscent of Kaurismaki, tackles heavy issues of modern slavery, forced migration, and prejudice with a deft and humorous touch. Screened in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts and Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI) Panel: Soudade Kaadan (director of Aziza), Laith Elzubaidi (Pop Culture & Social Change Producer at Counterpoints Arts), Dr Agnes Woolley (Lecturer in Transnational Literature and Migration Cultures) Dir: Wissam Charaf | Length: 1h 23m Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image | 6.30pm | Tickets (free; booking required) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/8c9fde1e-3b85-47c9-bf91-828321718e48/zine+collage.jpg Lmff 2023 - Zine workshop: Border Hacks, Resistance and Everyday Humanity * SOLD OUT * Come and join us for a workshop where researchers invite creative responses to their work, which focuses on people impacted by borders. The researchers will discuss their work (5 minutes each + Q&A) with the audience. Then there is a creative workshop following the discussion (1 hour). We invite you to think about the resistance and humanity you see at borders and in our communities, and then create an A4 poster or mini zine to swap or take with you (all materials will be provided). Suitable for all ages In collaboration with Keele University Upstairs at the Ritzy | 3:00pm | Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/ef75994f-4e06-4762-91e6-4ac8f9f1e2ca/image0.jpg Lmff 2023 - Character writing workshop: In my shoes * SOLD OUT * Where do characters end and begin? How does my context and personal story affect objectivity when it comes to writing a character based on another human being? Is our written self perception an accurate portrayal of our inner world? Join us for a dynamic writing workshop that will delve in the questions of identity and self by using documentary techniques focused on developing a character profile. A sensible yet challenging conversation that will incite the participants to reflect on their personal journeys and how we as humans create from different perspectives allowing them to see through someone else’s eyes, or in other words to be in their shoes for a brief moment in time. Age range: 16+ Produced by Mariana Ortiz Upstairs at the Ritzy | 5:00pm | Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/3c7084af-6886-420a-9e24-3a753f2b1b01/reinventing+the+game%281%29.jpg Lmff 2023 - Game-making workshop: Reinventing the Game In 1855, the 'map of emigration' (Map of the World on Mercator's Projection shewing the British Possessions 1849) was adapted into a board game called the Crystal Palace Game. The Crystal Palace Game signifies the disparities in freedom of movement between the coloniser and colonised, disparities that continue to be visible today. And it highlights how those with the agency to move perceive(d) extractivism as an adventure or a game, while the migration of people from the global majority had much higher stakes than fun. The instructions and game pieces have since been lost and it is currently unknown how the game was played. In this workshop, we will use the 'map of emigration', discussion, and other visual materials to reinvent how the Crystal Palace Game is played, in order to subvert its power and reclaim agency. Produced by Toby Chai Age range: 12+ Upstairs at the Ritzy | 1:00pm | Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/09dd4d93-f0df-4c1a-964e-cb031c50333c/Screen+Shot+2023-10-11+at+16.19.56.jpg Lmff 2023 - Literary magazine & celebration: The Other Side of Hope * SOLD OUT * The Other Side of Hope is a publication edited by immigrants and refugees, and the UK’s first ever literary magazine of sanctuary. This event, where we celebrate the magazine’s third birthday, will include readings by migrant writers and poets, live music, and a Q&A session with the magazine’s editors and contributors. The Other Side of Hope exists to serve and celebrate the refugee and immigrant communities worldwide. Upstairs at the Ritzy | 6:30pm | Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/5850d0ec-120e-4eb6-aef3-4030f2e42343/tape+still.jpg Lmff 2023 - Short films : زندگی در برزخ: Life in Limbo + Q&A * SOLD OUT * 5 films reflect 5 points of view regarding the inhumane impacts of offshore refugee processing centres, the consequences of dispossession, incarceration and colonial power in the contemporary world. Explored through the lens of Australia's infamous refugee policies and the lived experience of those effected by it, these poignant, powerful and personal films resonate with current UK attitudes, foreshadowing the human impact of ‘stopping the boats’. Produced by Refugee Art Project, curated by Faded Neon Films & T A P E collective for London Migration Festival Upstairs at the Ritzy | 2:30pm | Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/d198d405-4de7-46ed-8389-0af336165eb8/The+Migration+Series-Panel+55.jpg Lmff 2023 - On death as an Immigrant * SOLD OUT * “I didn’t make it back in time to say goodbye.” “Grieving over Zoom isn’t the same.” “What might my funeral look like?” These are some of the unique concerns that immigrants confront when they’ve been bereaved or when contemplating their own mortality. Join us for an open and interactive exchange about how being an immigrant affects how we experience death, grief, and mourning. Age range: 18+ Produced by Dr Selena Daly Upstairs at the Ritzy | 1:00pm | Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/50d2db21-d66f-494a-bb7b-a9be73bd4cc9/Stone-Turtle-2-scaled.jpg Lmff 2023 - Film: Stone Turtle "I'd rather be alive on an island of ghosts than be a ghost in the land of living" Zahara, a refugee from Indonesia, lives on a small remote island in Malaysia, where she makes a living selling turtle eggs. One day, Samad, claiming to be a university researcher, visits the island and convinces Zahara to help him navigate. But as the day goes on, Zahara and Samad become entangled in a dangerous and time-travelling dance of duplicity and deception. A spellbinding and enigmatic cross between feminist revenge thriller, folk horror, and animation that offers a dazzlingly new take on political themes. Dir: Woo Ming Jin | Length: 1h 31m Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) | 2:15pm | Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/c9750a64-1f0c-4394-b1b3-853c22fb900e/mohamed+still.jpg Lmff 2023 - Short films: A Broken House: Shorts on migration, creation & community * SOLD OUT * Join us for an evening of short films that explore themes of migration, creation and community, which will be followed by a panel discussion. Mohamed (prod: Katz Laszlo and Mohamed Bah) Ousmane (dir: Jorge Camarotti) A Broken House (dir: Jimmy Goldblum) In collaboration with Haringey Migrant Support Centre; all proceeds go to support their vital work Salisbury Hotel pub (Haringay) | 7:30pm | Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/68d417f5-2151-4208-845b-0a62612a30b9/victim+still.jpg Lmff 2023 - Film: Victim + Q&A Irina, a single mother from Ukraine, lives with her son Igor in a Czech border town. When she discovers that Igor has been assaulted by three ‘Roma people’ her whole world comes crashing down. But as time goes on, Irina spots inconsistencies in his story, forcing her to choose between compromising her conscience to protect her son and revealing the truth at the risk of their immigration status - a choice that triggers a tremor in the faultlines of a divided society. Screened as part of the 27th Made in Prague Festival and in collaboration with the Czech Centre and the Slovak Embassy in London Dir: Michal Blaško | Length: 1h 31m Genesis Cinema | 6:25pm | Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/00d68c39-2fdb-4782-bc9b-bc261b326880/we+dare.jpg Lmff 2023 - Film: We Dare to Dream + Q&A with director * SOLD OUT * Athletes from around the world prepare to compete at the Tokyo Olympics. A promising young Iranian taekwondo fighter, a South-Sudanese field runner, a Syrian swimmer and many more - they all share their passion for sports, and the affiliation to the Refugee Olympic Team. This documentary, from the director of critically acclaimed For Sama, observes their lives, their training, and the emotional journey that will bring them to the competition of a lifetime. Screened with short film Canción de Pilo (dir: Anna Merryfield) Dir: Waad Al-Kateab | Length: 1h 36min The Lexi Cinema | 6:15pm | Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/74cabfbf-690c-44d8-b77b-fbd10263e147/Screen+Shot+2023-10-09+at+22.01.32.jpg Lmff 2023 - Film: Fremont + Q&A Donya works for a Chinese fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Formerly a translator for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, she struggles to put her life back in order. In a moment of sudden revelation, she decides to send out a special message in a cookie. Screened with short film Yellow (dir: Elham Ehsas) Dir: Babak Jalali | Length: 1h 31m Genesis Cinema | 6:10pm | Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/aa480e8a-58ad-4e88-ab07-9401ad07c87c/WHITEBOY_1.jpg Lmff 2023 - Short films: On Belonging & Migration + Q&A with directors * SOLD OUT * In collaboration with GuiltybyAssociation’s: Sine Files, join us for a special screening of stories told by Filipino-British filmmakers. Screening award-winning works from filmmakers this event is a pioneering tribute to the Filipino spirit, showcasing remarkable films that reflect together on belonging, identity and self. Whiteboy (dir: Matty Crawford) Aking Tahanan (My home) (dir: Mark Sevilla) Sean (dir: Ray Roberts) The screening will be followed with a Q&A with the filmmakers where we will discover the directors’ personal journeys making the films and discuss the impact of migration amongst the Filipino community. The Lexi Cinema | 6:30pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/e8247f97-1178-4590-9154-4fb196695953/Screen+Shot+2023-10-09+at+21.59.59.jpg Lmff 2023 - Film: In the Rearview + Q&A with director One country. One minibus. Many journeys. This fly-on-the-wall film captures Ukrainians as they are forced to leave their homes and drive into the unknown. What does it look like to flee from a war? This gentle film explores the raw, human cost of conflict. Each new passenger, whether women or men, young or old, has first-hand experience of the Russian invasion, and a spectrum of emotions surfaces in the car transporting them to safety. Children mutely read books, a woman weeps for the cow she’s left behind, others are lost for words… And beyond the confines of the minibus is rural Ukraine – a vast landscape littered with the carnage of war. Presented in collaboration with Sheffield Doc Fest and Bertha DocHouse Dir: Maciek Hamela | Length: 1h 24m Bertha Doc House | 6:20pm | Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/47fdb603-1dd0-435d-a7a4-f56a7debc522/02.jpg Lmff 2023 - Film: No End + Q&A Ayaz is a middle-aged civil servant living a tranquil life in Iran. News that his brother-in-law Soroush might return after 30 years in exile troubles him: his family has lived for decades in the home Soroush left behind, and Ayaz is worried that they’ll now be forced to leave. Hoping to slow down this process, he circulates rumours that the secret police have been visiting the family looking for Soroush. Yet this seemingly little lie soon spirals out of control. A meditation on the insidiousness of the Iranian regime and exploration of the reasons why people are forced to flee it. Dir: Nader Saeivar | Length: 1h 53min Phoenix Cinema | 6pm | Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/3f44477d-9811-43d7-879a-713f106d4974/still+1.jpg Lmff 2023 - Closing night: The Other Half + Q&A * SOLD OUT * For 15 years, photojournalist Giorgos Moutafis bears witness to the journey of refugees across the dark crossings of Greece’s borders. Futility, death and exhaustion represents a large part of his work, as he finds new angles on this well-trodden terrain. His camera delves into inaccessible places, intimately documenting the stories of people who push against boundaries, revealing how 'the Other Half' lives. One of the most powerful films we’ve ever seen and a damning indictment of the violence inherent in maintaining ‘Fortress Europe’. A film that bears witness, that acts as evidential testimony, and a tour de force that is sadly at least as necessary now as it was in 2015. * Content warning: contains death, violence, and distressing scenes * Dir: Giorgos Moutafis | Length: 1h 12m Bertha Doc House | 6:20pm | Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/83ee1990-6c3f-4b87-91b6-2f80e1066b1f/Partner+slide.jpg Lmff 2023 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1694434845767-EWVWZVGDZYQ3QLPDRWVU/MERC-R-2020-10-image.jpg Lmff 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1697657393603-9S4TVQW74STL29670KJ5/Screen%2BShot%2B2023-10-18%2Bat%2B20.09.30.jpg Lmff 2023 https://www.migrationcollective.com/lmff-2024 daily 0.75 2024-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/552d71bc-5bb7-4b52-b2c7-86e486d8cf07/Screenshot+2024-10-22+at+21.17.05.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - The History of Souleymane (L'Histoire de Souleymane) *London Migration Film Festival Opening Gala* Film + Q&A | 20 Nov; 6:30pm | SOAS Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane repeats his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum interview, the key to obtaining papers and safety. But Souleymane is not ready. This beautiful and poignant film explores the human impact of punitive migration laws, and its intersection with a labour market increasingly dominated by algorithms and insecure work. Dir: Boris Lojkine | Length: 1h 32min SOLD OUT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/36e47fa9-3de8-4560-9921-a822e2eece18/WhatsApp+Image+2024-10-22+at+22.09.34.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - Dessert for Constance (Un Dessert pour Constance) Film + Q&A | 21 Nov; 6:45pm | Off the Cuff In the 70's, Bokolo and Mamadou are Senegalese street sweepers in the city of Paris, looking for a way to pay for the return home of one of their sick comrades. After stumbling upon a 19th-century cookbook they decide to enter a cooking competition. The two cleaners-turned-chefs proceed to expose the pretentious pomp of French cuisine – as well as the industry’s racism and classism.  In a film that could easily have been heavy, Maldoror uses comedy to combat racist stereotypes in this charming portrait of solidarity and triumph, while never shying away from showing the harsh realities of the immigrant experience. Dir: Sarah Maldoror | Length: 1h 1m In collaboration with Brixton Community Cinema SOLD OUT - note the venue changed from what originally advertised https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/c6445452-e7a4-40c2-9612-9d22a047bd8d/WhatsApp+Image+2024-10-26+at+13.46.46.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - Migrating Sounds: The music of diaspora from Scopitones to Tiktok Film Talk + DJs | 21 Nov; 7pm | Ridley Road Social Club Just like flavours and smells, sounds deeply connect us to the values, traditions and identities of home, migrating through bodies and borders, across time and space. For diasporic communities, combining music with video has become a powerful tool for preserving their homeland’s musical traditions and negotiating their sense of belonging, while also adapting to new technologies and modes of exchange. Music becomes an artefact of migration. Join us in the celebration of these music clips: from Scopitones, to cable TV and Youtube to Instagram reels and TikTok. This event will feature an interactive installation open throughout the day, alongside a film programme, roundtable discussion and a DJ set to cap off the night. Produced by Louise Gholam and Isabella Barkett in partnership with ILL-3AB SOLD OUT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/03f808a5-304b-40e8-944e-53679830a7b6/WhatsApp+Image+2024-10-22+at+22.09.24.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - Hummingbirds Film + Q&A | 21 Nov; 7:15pm | Kings College London, Safra Lecture Theatre In Laredo, a city in southern Texas on the Mexican border, best friends Silvia and Beba know that the long summer nights of their youth cannot last forever. Their hang-out spots are so familiar but, stuck in an immigration process over which deportation hangs as a constant possibility, home still seems a fragile concept. Between bars, drive-thrus, friends’ couches and the borderlands, they confront the stresses of survival, the future, and community building. For them, this means protest action for legal abortion and against border control abuses, in a politically divided America. But the dusty half-light is also a time for poetry and dreams. Their laughter and creative expression cement a sense of solidarity and belonging in togetherness. Dir: Silvia Del Carmen Castaños, Estefanía “Beba” Contreras | Length: 1h 17m TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/c64ee49f-d047-46c7-890c-f00ef659f0c8/WhatsApp+Image+2024-10-22+at+22.09.44.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - The Dupes (المخدوعون) Film + Q&A | 22 Nov; 7:15pm | Kings College London, Safra Lecture Theatre Set in the 1950s, The Dupes traces the destinies of three different men brought together by their dispossession, their despair and their hope for a better future. The protagonists are Palestinian refugees trying to make their way across the border from Iraq into Kuwait, the 'Promised Land,' concealed in the steel tank of a truck. Representing different dimensions of the Palestinian experience, each one believes he can make a new life for himself, but as the film’s title suggests, their flight is no solution. Dir: Tewfik Saleh | Length: 1h 47m SOLD OUT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/6e4d7e10-aea0-4090-99f4-9f52da06ac30/Screenshot+2024-10-22+at+21.45.21.png London Migration Film Festival 2024 - Omen (Augure) Film + Q&A | 22 Nov; 6:30pm | Genesis Cinema Having been sent to Europe as a baby after a birthmark convinced his mother that he must be a sorcerer, Koffi and his Belgian fiancée Alice embark on a fraught family trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, complexities abound as four individuals find their different worlds and perspectives clashing which intersect through chapters in the film, each adding a new dimension as the narrative unfolds. A visceral and kinetic tale of reconciliation, superstition, and the violence of extractivism told in a beautiful and at times hallucinatory vision. Dir: Baloji | Length: 1h 32m TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/72415709-5e34-4a2d-8cf6-f9c301cf2687/WhatsApp+Image+2024-10-26+at+12.08.14.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - Drag Down the Borders Drag Show | 22 Nov; Doors at 8pm, start at 9pm | Upstairs at the Ritzy Well those borders aren't going to drag themselves down, are they? Join us for a night full of queer joy and solidarity with Drag Down the Borders as we showcase incredible drag, burlesque, and cabaret! The whole night will be hosted by your favourite Catholic Daddy, Sweet FA. SOLD OUT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/39c78ec9-ee3d-4373-a302-e16a078ba39d/MinA+1.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - ‘When the Lights Go Off...and the Cleaners Get In’ Performance | 22 Nov; 6:30pm | Upstairs at the Ritzy ‘When the Lights Go Off...and the Cleaners Get In’ is a theatrical film and live performance about the lives, dreams and struggles of Latin American women working in the cleaning sector in London. Migrants in Action (MinA) invites to an evening dedicated to acknowledging and celebrating the often overlooked but vital contributions of migrant women. It is a call for awareness, empathy, and action, advocating for the rights and dignity of those who keep our cities running long after the lights go off. SOLD OUT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/cb4165e2-40a1-4b7b-a7cd-2065a04c4760/WhatsApp+Image+2024-10-26+at+12.23.27.jpeg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - Living Traces Tour & workshop | 23 Nov; 2pm | Tower Hamlets Cemetery An insightful trek through Tower Hamlets Cemetery to learn about the histories of people of colour, gender diverse people, and working class people of East London, which will be followed by an interactive workshop. We will think about how we can leave living memories in our public spaces. The workshop will unpack material from local archives revealing the histories of marginalised communities, asking participants - how can local, diverse communities leave their mark as neighbourhoods rapidly change? Guided by prompts, we will create ‘living monuments’ with ethically foraged materials. This is an interactive and insightful workshop for all ages where we will explore the relationship between local history and our natural environment. In collaboration with Chromatic Agency SOLD OUT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/4669da3c-0275-4855-890f-31f5f0395e37/WhatsApp+Image+2024-10-26+at+12.08.48.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - Postcards to the Future Writing workshop | 23 Nov; 12:30pm | Upstairs at the Ritzy What if people no longer needed to seek asylum? What if borders were abolished? What if we could migrate to a future utopia? Sci-fi writing prompts like these can help us to imagine a future world. In Postcards to the Future, participants are guided to create a film pitch exploring "time-migration". Diving deeper into the film ideas, participants are then invited to send a fictional postcard.... which may or may not reach its time-travelling destination. Through writing exercises and group discussion, Postcards to the Future invites you to engage critically with the ideas of migration through space and time. In collaboration with One Thousand & One Letters TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1243b018-cfac-4d73-9185-74588d54f7a7/all+we+imagine.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - All We Imagine As Light (പ്രഭയായ് നിനച്ചതെല്ലാം) *Preview Screening* Film | 23 Nov; 5:40pm | Genesis Cinema Prabha, Anu and Parvaty moved to Mumbai to work at a hospital. Here, they grapple daily with the opportunities and hardships of existence in the city. Balancing an immersive verité style with a touch of the surreal, Payal Kapadia’s Cannes Grand Prix-winning drama captures the many shades of working-class life in Mumbai. The result is a profound and deeply humanist meditation on urban migration and dislocation. Dir: Payal Kapadia | Length: 1h 55 min TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/bb491d75-f01e-42e3-9f71-b70e5e92b5cf/IMG_8082.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - Anti-raids training Workshop | 23 Nov; 5:00pm | Upstairs at the Ritzy Do you know how to spot an immigration raid? Do you want to learn how to challenge raids and intervene when you see state harassment and brutality? In the context of increasingly violent anti-migrant discourse in the UK, the Anti-Raids network co-ordinates solidarity and strengthens local resistance to racist state practices. In this workshop you’ll learn what immigration raids are, how to respond to them, what yours and others’ legal rights are and how to build a community of resistance. Expect a mixture of practical information, role-plays, hand-outs and a Q&A. Workshop by Lewisham Anti-Raids TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/2e7f407c-928e-47c7-ba17-a4b7eac619f3/WhatsApp+Image+2024-10-26+at+12.14.27.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - What gets left behind? Storytelling | 23 Nov; 2:30pm | Upstairs at the Ritzy Join Hekayyatna for an experiential storytelling event which follows the trail of breadcrumbs of what stays after we go. Alongside the audience’s own experiences, this event will unpack and reveal the significance and symbolism of the objects we leave behind during movement and migration, and how these can paint a picture of who we are now. Attendees will be prompted to reflect on the objects they have left behind, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and contemplate how their absence has shaped who they have become. From forgotten notes in library books to family photos lost on ruined walls, to packed suitcases of belongings – the event will explore how we archive what we no longer possess. In collaboration with Hekayyatna SOLD OUT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/9ee30d16-e1e4-4f95-a63b-41bfae8b82fc/%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A9.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - Unpacking Arabic Expressions - Ghorba Workshop | 23 Nov, 1pm | Palestine House Did you know, there are 12.3 million words in the Arabic language, compared to 171,000 in the English language? Well, in this fun, interactive and discussion-based workshop, you’ll be guided into the world of words and phrases exclusive to the Arabic language. In this workshop, we'll unpack the word 'Ghorba' - which refers to living in the diaspora - and we'll explore how it manifests in your life and culture! *This is for both English and Arabic speakers. The workshop will be run in English. Run in collaboration with Culture Mocktail SOLD OUT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/d606f730-2966-4e09-bb3c-1f56171a440b/WhatsApp+Image+2024-10-26+at+13.44.41.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - Black Tea Film + Q&A | 23 Nov; 4.30pm | Institute of Contemporary Arts Disconsolate Ivorian bride Aya abandons her groom at their wedding, then promptly moves to the Chinese city of Guangzhou where she finds work in a tea shop owned by a divorced trader. He mentors her in the art of tea connoisseurship and, gradually, they fall in love. In doing so, they are confronted with the complexities of cultural assimilation. Can their affair survive the turmoil of their pasts and other people’s prejudices? Sissako’s film, in a clear nod to Wong Kar Wai, reveals a narrative of aspirational migration across the rarely addressed axis of Asia and Africa, offering an evocative and insightful perspective on interconnectedness. Dir: Abderrahmane Sissako | Length: 1h 50m TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/19a773f5-ff7b-4099-9239-0a10c841e4da/Screenshot+2024-10-26+at+15.50.43.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - Heart of Snow: Afterlife Films + Music + Q&A | 24 Nov; 3.30pm | Upstairs at the Ritzy Intersectional Diasporic Experience of Koryo-Saram, the (post-)Soviet Koreans. In 1937, Koryo-saram were forcibly displaced from the Far East of the Russian SFSR to Central Asia as part of a secret racist operation launched by Stalin’s government, which was rearranging multiple populations and indigenous peoples due to perceived “anti-Soviet activities”. Over a century of their existence, Koryo-saram have developed their own cuisine, literature, fashion, music, and cinema, often far from the limelight. 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Dir: Payal Kapadia | Length: 1h 55 min SOLD OUT - TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR 23 NOVEMBER SCREENING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1dafb98b-e49a-4f3d-9c26-72ca2e241bc1/WhatsApp+Image+2024-10-26+at+14.05.01.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - B!tch and Stitch Workshop | 24 Nov; 12:30 | Upstairs at the Ritzy Come and join us for an afternoon of crafting, community and creativity at B!TCH & STITCH where we'll knit, natter and get to know each other! Textile work and fabric arts are a medium through which the different cultural and social experiences of immigrant communities, as well as colonial and extractionist histories, can be explored, unpacked and/or celebrated. So, whether you're a knitting novice or a crochet connoisseur, feel inspired to explore a new creative hobby. Workshop led by Maryam Rimi TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/9584f6de-181a-4376-88e9-5b844ccd1749/wolves-always-come-at-night-01.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - The Wolves Always Come at Night (Чоно үүр шөнөөр ирдэг) Film + Q&A | 24 Nov; 6:00pm | Bertha DocHouse Davaa and Zaya (co-writers of the film) live with their children and flock in the Bayankhongor region of Mongolia. But the titular wolf is never far from the door; the climate is changing, which forces the family into an urban centre and a new way of life. A breathtaking and heartbreaking blend of documentary and fiction, this film is a timely reminder of the sometimes tenuous foundations of the places we call home, and of the imminence of climate emergency. Dir: Gabrielle Brady | Length: 1h 35m SOLD OUT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/78046e6e-5948-4c15-adff-bb4c272b1ea2/coyotes.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - Night of the Coyotes Film | 24 Nov; 3:30pm | Bertha DocHouse The seemingly quiet and largely indigenous town of El Alberto is becoming a ghost town, as many have suffered the loss of loved ones who died trying to enter, or can’t return from, the US. To survive this, they start simulating an experience they all know: crossing the border to the US illegally. The residents of the village slip into the roles of border guards, human traffickers, and narcos to reenact the crossing for paying tourists so they can put themselves into the shoes of a migrant for one night. But is this a story of empowerment or a people stuck in a loop of their traumatic experiences? Dir: Clara Trischler | Length: 1h 18m TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/4ea93333-a56d-4720-9b0c-f0daf9e27d07/ama+gloria.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - Àma Gloria Film | 25 Nov; 6:20pm | The Lexi Cinema Cléo loves her nanny Gloria more than anyone. But when Gloria suddenly has to return home to Cape Verde to look after her own children, Gloria invites the heartbroken Cléo to visit her and the two have to make the most of their last summer together. A film that works both as a simple heartfelt drama and as a clear allegory (and critique) of colonialism, Ama Gloria is a beautifully drawn study of a young girl on a steep learning curve about the broader contexts of her, and other people’s, worlds. Dir: Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq | Length: 1h 23m TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/3de969ed-7593-40aa-81e7-cb19fa836414/WhatsApp+Image+2024-10-26+at+14.40.38.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - To a Land Unknown *Preview screening* Film + Q&A | 25 Nov; 6:30pm | Genesis Cinema Athens-based Palestinian refugees Chatila and Reda are trying to save what little money they can to purchase passports so they can move to Germany, only for Chatila to become drawn into a high-risk smuggling plot after Reda spends all their money on heroin. At once a parable of desperation and social realist thriller, this film explores the lengths people are pushed to within the context of the failing and inhumane Greek asylum system. Followed by Q&A with director Mahdi Fleifel Dir: Mahdi Fleifel | Length: 1h 45m TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/c95386b6-f22c-4954-9b26-7674254823c0/Screenshot+2024-10-26+at+14.44.45.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - Crossing Film + Q&A | 25 Nov; 6:30pm | SOAS, Khalili Lecture Theatre Lia, a retired teacher living in a small town in Georgia, has promised to find her long-lost niece, Tekla, after she was forced to leave her family home when she came out as a trans woman. Her search takes her to Istanbul where she meets Evrim, a lawyer fighting for trans rights, and Tekla starts to feel closer than ever. Director Levan Akin centres the vital spirit of Istanbul’s trans community in this poignant story of unlikely connection. Dir: Levan Akin | Length: 1h 46 min TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/639db46e-b638-4a67-bc32-ce67aaea8d53/1+-+Eventbrite+Photos.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - Preserving Ancestral Recipes Cookbook Writing Workshop | 26 Nov; 8:30pm | Upstairs at the Ritzy Everything we eat tells a story. Food connects us to people, histories, and traditions, evoking powerful emotions and childhood memories. For children of the diaspora, it offers a unique gateway to exploring their ancestry and roots. How can we preserve and document our ancestral recipes to ensure they are passed down through generations? Join storyteller and filmmaker Kishanth Javegar in a workshop learning how to document family’s recipes. Discover practical tools to explore your family’s culinary heritage, ask meaningful questions, and create a family cookbook, preserving stories and traditions through the food that shapes your identity. 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Dir: David Fedele & the Jungo of Rabat | Length: 1h 17m SOLD OUT - 2ND SCREENING ADDED ON 28 NOV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/da21029f-b83a-4ef9-b835-f86c15a8411f/WhatsApp+Image+2024-10-26+at+15.02.53.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - Kanaval Film | 26 Nov; 6:40pm | Genesis Cinema After leaving Haiti during the dictatorship, a boy and his mother settle in a rural village in Quebec, where the child relies on his imaginary friend to understand the strange and at times hostile new world around him. Part sci-fi, fantasy and myth, this beautiful film explores a child’s sense of feeling alien(ated) both by his new home and the adults in his life. Dir: Henri Pardo | Length: 1h 52m TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/7eb2dbc1-02e9-4ace-a7ab-804fbbb3cb64/WhatsApp+Image+2024-10-26+at+14.37.14.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - Dante & Shakespeare on the Move Panel Discussion + Performances, Drinks and Chats 27 November, 7pm | King’s College London, Macadam Building, Terrace Cafe In a fast moving world, we look back at the canon in literature - Shakespeare, Dante, Chaucer - and explore their relevance for current discussions on migration, movement and asylum. A dynamic event bringing together artists, writers, academics and people with lived experience of (forced) migration. Join us to celebrate the end of London Migration Film Festival 2024, and get to know each other’s work and perspectives on the centuries old, but never more present, theme of migration. Featuring Majid Adin, Dr Jennifer Allsopp, and The Other Side of Hope literary magazine. 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Dir: David Fedele & the Jungo of Rabat | Length: 1h 17m TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/346fd399-7a51-45c4-a4e9-366a526704a7/WhatsApp+Image+2024-10-15+at+15.12.05.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2024 - Subverting the Narrative of Migration through Creative Acts Films + Q&A + wine reception 29 November, 6pm | University of Westminster, room UG05 PositiveNegatives, a non-profit creative research organisation will join us for a series of screenings that introduce the audience to innovative ways of 'disturbing' the conventional narrative of migration. By prioritizing subjective experiences and applying creative techniques such as animation and illustration, based on ethnographic research, the screenings aim to transform personal stories into art, educational, and advocacy materials. 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This Symposium, through the contributions of artists, activists, and researchers, will specifically explore how and where art intersects with legal structures, with a particular focus on migration. 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A reflection on memory, trauma, and the recently ended Syrian civil war which propelled so much of the language and political response to the so-called ‘refugee crisis’, Ghost Trail offers a timely, tense, and spellbinding moment of reflection to mark the start of the 10th edition of London Migration Film Festival. Dir: Jonathan Millet | Length: 1h 46m | Language: Arabic, French TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/9603a083-53b8-4fb8-8e74-8311fc8c4692/Blue+Has+No+Borders+-+Still+1.png LMFF 2025 - Blue Has No Borders Film + Q&A with director | 28 Nov; 6:30pm | Genesis Cinema In Folkestone, where refugees attempt to reach from France on a daily basis, tensions are rife. Old traditions die hard, voices struggle to be heard and the notion of British identity is regularly asserted and contested. In the face of mounting pressure, director Jessi Gutch sets out to do the unthinkable: seek common ground. Honest conversations with six people, grappling the divisions surrounding race, class and politics, give way to a rumination on how make sense of our present moment, in spite of all the uncertainty and fear. Dir: Jessi Gutch | Length: 1h 27m | Language: English TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/70cf6fc5-8aec-42ba-8509-ae0c82d13a98/23+TRANSIT+Foto+Marco+Kru%CC%88ger+%C2%A9+Schramm+Film.jpg LMFF 2025 - Transit & the Exilic Legacy of Hannah Arendt Film + Q&A | 28 Nov; 6pm | Ciné Lumière Georg, a German refugee, is trying to escape present-day occupied France. As the days pass, other refugees around him are captured or killed. His hopes lie on a passage to Mexico he managed to get tickets for - but the wait seems interminable. To mark 50 years since the death of Hannah Arendt, the film will be followed by a discussion on the ongoing significance of Arendt’s work to contemporary issues of migration, specifically her ideas on statelessness, liminality, exile, and totalitarianism. In collaboration with Goethe-Institut London Dir: Christian Petzold | Length: 1h 41m | Language: German TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/ac0af96f-a546-446f-96aa-e2c2b8153639/WhatsApp+Image+2025-11-02+at+15.46.08.jpg LMFF 2025 - How Did We Get Here? Migration, colonialism & the rise of the far-right Town Hall + Discussion | 29 Nov; 3:15pm | Upstairs at the Ritzy Join Hekayyatna for a thought-provoking town hall thinking about “How Did We Get Here?”. In this gathering, we invite you to journey through the history and current state of immigration to the UK, with a particular focus on the SWANA South West Asia and North Africa region. 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Dir: Alonso Ruizpalacios | Length: 2h 19m | Language: Spanish, English TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/ffd7e283-8d8e-4968-92ea-245bc8e649c9/POSTER+ANIMATION+WORKSHOP.png LMFF 2025 - Drawn from Home: Animated Recipes Workshop | 29 Nov; 1:00pm | Upstairs at the Ritzy An interactive animation workshop that explores the politics of food, feasting, recipes, and community within the context of immigration. For many immigrants, the plate becomes one of the last remaining threads connecting them to a fractured identity. In this workshop, participants will create short, hand-made stop-motion sequences using paper cut-outs to animate a personal scene, whether remembered or imagined. All equipment will be provided. Hosted by Amina Ben Ismail and Enjy Jarrouj | Curated in partnership with Hekayyatna TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/6ea745f8-8577-4cf0-8bf5-9e193cf465dc/3.+Kishanth+Javegar%2C+Preserving+Ancestral+Recipes+Workshop.png LMFF 2025 - Memory, Messiness and Migration Long Table | 29 Nov; 4:45pm | Upstairs at the Ritzy Memory, Messiness and Migration is a participatory Long Table event exploring how our memories and messiness, personal, ancestral, and collective, shape our understanding of migration. Hosted by storyteller and filmmaker கிஷான்த் ஜவகர் - Kishanth Javegar, the evening will begin with Kishanth's reflection on tracing his Tamil roots across India and Eelam. Followed by an open Long Table discussion where participants are invited to share their “Hot Takes” and bring migrational memory items. Together, we’ll sit with the complexities and contradictions of migration; its beauty, discomfort, and in-between spaces, creating a space for dialogue, honesty, and shared reflection beyond echo chambers. Hosted by Kishanth Javegar | Curated in partnership with Hekayyatna SOLD OUT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/fe06bc9e-d20d-4ff0-8484-5776c1d1aff9/Where-the-Night-Stands-Still-Szene-2.jpg LMFF 2025 - Where the Night Stands Still (Come la notte) * UK premiere * Film + Q&A | 29 Nov; 6:30pm | Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Three Filipino siblings, all domestic workers in Italy, reunite in their sister Lilia's inherited villa. As the night unfolds, buried grievances, shared memories, and long-held silences surface, testing their fragile bond. A haunting but gentle meditation on generational displacement, inheritance, and the unspoken tensions that may (quite literally) fracture families. Dir: Liryc Dela Cruz | Length: 1h 15m | Language: Tagalog, Italian, English TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/cfe9ef3a-42fd-4bc6-93cc-3839576acafc/TFSSW_Still_1.jpg LMFF 2025 - Shorts competition: documenting stories of migration Short Documentary Films Competition | 29 Nov; 6:10pm | Bertha DocHouse An evening of short films, each using different approaches in documenting stories of people on the move. From a deep dive into archival material on Palestinian flowers. to an exploration of the connection between language and migration, this programme encompasses the best documentary short films we’ve seen this year. TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/5442541f-8c88-44d3-9ed7-9bd668b1316b/WhatsApp+Image+2025-11-02+at+16.04.37.jpg LMFF 2025 - Adrift Films + Objects + Q&A | 29 Nov; 6:30pm | National Maritime Museum Migrant crossings in the Mediterranean Sea increased during the 2010s, and lethal European policies of surveillance and securitisation led to thousands of deaths at sea. Join Tim May, Curator of Maps and Mobilities to explore this subject through objects in the museum’s collection and the screening of two short documentaries by Forensic Oceanography, ‘Liquid Traces: the Left-to-Die Boat Case’ and 'Death by Rescue – The EU’s Lethal Policies of Non-assistance'. *WARNING: These films address distressing subject matter which may be unsuitable for children. TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/06e7b10b-3bd8-4d61-8793-3a0b6e04ed76/state+of+statelessness.webp LMFF 2025 - State of Statelessness Film + Q&A | 29 Nov; 3:00pm | Lexi Cinema State of Statelessness is the first-ever Tibetan-language anthology feature film, exploring the themes of statelessness and migration through four stories of Tibetans living in exile. Directed by Tibetan filmmakers in India, America, and Vietnam, the film captures the realities of a scattered people, from a father’s tale of the Mekong River to a son’s discovery of a family secret in Dharamshala. Dir: Tenzing Sonam, Ritu Sarin, Tsering Tashi Gyalthang, Sonam Tseten, Tenzin Tsetan Choklay | Length: 1h 46m | Language: Tibetan, Vietnamese, English and Hindi In partnership with London Tibet Film Festival TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/8f6482ee-4901-4751-9a9f-90a0de501d6e/02_still_moriasix_300dpi.jpg LMFF 2025 - Moria Six Film + Q&A | 29 Nov; 3:30pm | Bertha DocHouse In September 2020, after a spurious trial, six refugees are convicted of starting the fire which destroyed the Moria camp on Lesbos. Following this, the filmmaker begins a correspondence with one of the “Moria Six”, Hassan, as new smart camps are being built across the Aegean islands. Highly secure, hidden, and compounded by illegal pushbacks, the film examines the increasingly violent and dehumanising techniques that Greece, as a frontier of Fortress Europe, is using to control migration. Dir: Jennifer Mallmann | Length: 1h 22m | Language: Greek, German, English SOLD OUT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/4a37b2f9-ad8e-4682-a968-406f69fc0e84/lingua-franca-movie-olivia.jpg LMFF 2025 - Voices Without Borders: Stories from Women Transforming the Migrant Narrative Literature + Podcast + Talk | 30 Nov; 5:00pm | Upstairs at the Ritzy Migrant women writers and storytellers come together for an evening of readings, conversation, and live podcasting, celebrating creativity and connection across borders. Through poetry, fiction, and lived experience, Voices Without Borders explores belonging, identity, and the power of shared storytelling. Join us for an inspiring night of words, sound, and hope — stories that move, voices that unite. Hosted by Trime Podcast and The Other Side of Hope | Curated in partnership with Hekayyatna TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/5ab36b08-9799-4371-920e-81a7470a42a9/Still+from+.jpg LMFF 2025 - Framing the Margins: Ethnic Albanian & Romani Depictions in Yugoslav Cinema Workshop | 30 Nov; 12noon | St Margaret’s House In this workshop, Arbër Qerka-Gashi invites participants to explore how cinema and film have shaped problematic societal notions about marginalised communities across diverse contexts. Drawing on research into representations of Romani and Albanian communities in Yugoslav cinema, Arbër challenges traditions of harmful portrayals and opens up space for participants to collectively reflect on and re-imagine how such narratives can be disrupted. Hosted by Balkanism | Curated in partnership with Hekayyatna TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/c662b6d3-c4f8-49fa-9f20-dc91e835d9a6/stories+and+the+black+woods+%281%29.png LMFF 2025 - Stories and the Black Woods Workshop | 30 Nov; 2:00pm | St Margaret's House Stories and the Black Woods celebrates the soul of West African cinema from Nollywood to Ghallywood and beyond. Through film excerpts, live story-sharing, and a vibrant panel with filmmakers of West African descent, the event explores how migration shapes creativity, identity, and storytelling. More than a screening, it’s a space for filmmakers, film lovers, and audiences from various cultures to connect, reflect, and celebrate the cultural power of cinema. Join us for two hours of inspiration, dialogue, and discovery, honouring the stories that cross borders, unite communities, and keep the spirit of African storytelling alive. Hosted by Inyang Edoho | Curated in partnership with Hekayyatna TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/f88c18bd-ad2b-49e0-b67f-7e23d0802f8a/WhatsApp+Image+2025-11-02+at+16.18.18.jpg LMFF 2025 - Diving into Culture & Migration Storytelling + Workshop | 30 Nov; 1:00pm | Upstairs at the Ritzy Join us for a meaningful and insightful storytelling event, where we’ll dive into culture and migration. Community members will come together to connect and learn about each other’s experiences. We’ll hear from featured storytellers who have migrated for a variety of reasons, including for education, work, war, love and more, as they share defining moments in their story that touched or impacted them in some way. Attendees will also have the chance to become a storyteller and share their experiences. And there will be guided cultural conversations on the topic in small groups, where attendees can share their stories and learn from one another too. Hosted by Culture Mocktail | Curated in partnership with Hekayyatna TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/9b020729-ebe2-40b2-9665-aa8449e26001/WhatsApp+Image+2025-11-02+at+16.27.19.jpg LMFF 2025 - Aesthetic Citizenship and the Violence of Beauty Workshop | 30 Nov, 2:45pm | Upstairs at the Ritzy Beauty is political. It affects how bodies are perceived and cared for by institutions, communities, and the state. It is not enough to hold legal rights; one must look like a “good citizen”. Whose presence is legitimate? Who is human enough to grieve? Which bodies are recognised as citizens, and who may be discarded without mourning? This workshop examines how aesthetic norms operate as systems of social control, granting legitimacy to some while denying humanity to others. Through creative reflection, participants will explore how bodily presentation influences the treatment, protection, and dignity of those navigating displacement or migration. Hosted by Unruly Beauty | Curated in partnership with Hekayyatna TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/47bc4e16-7692-4522-b4fc-e28ac478f3d2/last+days+of+us.jpg LMFF 2025 - Shorts competition: imagining stories of migration Short Fiction Films Competition | 30 Nov; 5:30pm | ICA An afternoon of short films - stories of people on the move that are confronted with the new reality their life has become. From difficult goodbyes, to unlikely encounters, this programme encompasses the best short fiction films we’ve seen this year. TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/b141299d-cf38-43c8-93c9-b20a5a2041f2/LETTERS+FROM+WOLF+STREET+%281%29.jpg LMFF 2025 - Letters from Wolf Street (Listy z Wilczej) *UK premiere* Film + workshop | 30 Nov; 6:15pm | Genesis Cinema Filmmaker Arjun Talwar turns his Warsaw street into a lens through which he explores migration, nationalism, and belonging. This documentary blends humour and tenderness with the stark realities of exclusion. In his search for community, Talwar asks if one ever stops being a stranger in a chosen home. The film will be followed by a writing workshop in collaboration with Gather with Anis, during which audience members will be encouraged to create work inspired by the film, and maybe make some new friends. Presented with SplicD Cinema and Gather with Anis Dir: Arjun Talwar | Length: 1h 37min | Language: Polish, English, Roma TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/d92acb31-c841-4e07-9dad-42797bb66cb6/David+Fedele.png LMFF 2025 - Whose Story is it? Representation, Responsibility and Authorship in Documentary Filmmaking Workshop | 30 Nov; 4:00pm | St Margaret's House Independent filmmaker David Fedele (three films at London Migration Film Festival) leads this interactive workshop on ethical documentary storytelling. Explore the tough questions: Whose story are we telling? What right do we have to tell it? How do we ensure responsible representation? David shares his mistakes, lessons learned, and DIY filmmaking approach—from concept through distribution. Open to filmmakers at any stage, plus a special invitation to migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers to learn how to tell their own stories—independently or in collaboration. Interactive format. Ask questions any time. Debate encouraged! Hosted by David Fedele | Curated in partnership with Hekayyatna TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/903613e7-62a7-42a7-8469-d6b2fd0380b6/Soleil+O+02%281%29.jpg LMFF 2025 - Soleil Ô Film + Q&A | 1 Dec; 6:00pm | Richmix A furious cry of resistance against racist oppression and a revolutionary landmark of political cinema, this feature debut from Mauritanian director Med Hondo is a bitterly funny, dazzlingly experimental attack on capitalism and the legacy of colonialism. Soleil Ô follows a starry-eyed immigrant as he leaves West Africa and journeys to Paris in search of a job, a community, and intellectual engagement—but soon discovers a hostile society where his very presence engenders fear and resentment. With this freewheeling masterpiece, Hondo crafts a shattering vision of awakening Black consciousness. Dir: Med Hondo | Length: 1h 38m | Language: French, Arabic TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/0d33327e-2c28-49fe-ac94-42a15de40c25/Screenshot+2024-10-26+at+14.15.18.jpg LMFF 2025 - Meals and Movement: Recipe Writing Workshop Workshop | 1 Dec; 7:30pm | Upstairs at the Ritzy As people migrate, their culture and cuisine travels with them and dishes adapt to new environments and pantries. How can we preserve the flavours and emotions linked to a favourite dish, or harness inspiration from a new experience and translate them into recipes? Join chef and food writer Ixta Belfrage at a workshop where you’ll explore how to write recipes using memory, storytelling and practical exercises. Hosted by Ixta Belfridge TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1ad87fcf-5b7e-401f-af55-8b09481f4f16/Still-Aisha-Cant-Fly-Away-1200x649.jpg LMFF 2025 - Aisha Can’t Fly Away Film + Q&A | 1 Dec; 6:15pm | Rio Cinema Aisha is a 26-year-old Sudanese caregiver living in a neighbourhood in the heart of Cairo where she witnesses the tension between her fellow African migrants and local gangs. Stuck between an undefined relationship with a young Egyptian cook, a gangster that blackmails her into an unethical deal in exchange for safety, and a new house she’s assigned to work in, Aisha struggles to cope with her fears and lost battles, causing her dreams to cross with reality and leading her to an impasse. Incorporating elements of magical realism and body horror, Aisha Can't Fly Away shows how a decent life may be rendered impossible by the conflict, coerced compliance, and exploitation experienced by women refugees in this ambitious and slow-burning feature. Dir: Morad Mostafa | Length: 2h 3m | Language: Arabic TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/11746aa6-8b1d-49e4-8dc8-a01ebde72c13/Mexico.01_002.jpg LMFF 2025 - Mexico 86 Film | 2 Dec; 6:45pm | Genesis Cinema Maria, a Guatemalan guerrillera, in 1976 is forced to flee her country due to the corrupt dictatorship that has already killed her partner - and she has no choice but to leave their newborn son behind. Ten years later, as Mexico is hosting the World Cup and Maria is preparing to expose the crimes of the Guatemalan dictatorship she fled, her son joins her in exile - forcing a choice between motherhood and her cause. A gripping film looking at the many identities people navigate between - mother, activist, refugee. And at the impact that one’s choices have on those they love and who depend on them. Dir: Cesar Diaz | Length: 1h 29m | Language: Spanish TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/864114b0-e9a7-4a6c-b9ff-cbb5216d653c/9.jpg LMFF 2025 - Under the Open Sky Film + Q&A with director | 2 Dec; 6:00pm | Richmix Ahmed’s idyllic life as a nomadic camel-herder is turned upside down when grazing land is sold to private corporations, and he has to choose between keeping his traditional livelihood or modernising with the times. In a story that spans over five years, this film invites the viewer to breathe the same air as the camel-herders of Kutch, whose future is being suffocated by our rapidly modernising world. Dir: Sonum Sumaria | Length: 1h 40min | Language: Kutchi/Sindhi TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/c7cbc413-b87a-41ac-8434-54a9a7aeda72/not+qa+screening.jpg LMFF 2025 - This is not a screening! - an Open Projection Night & Networking Screening + Talk + Networking | 2 Dec; 7:30pm | Upstairs at the Ritzy This Is Not A Screening! is a monthly open projection night for filmmakers, video artists, animators — and anyone working with moving image — to share works-in-progress and build an open dialogue with audiences. The focus is process over polish: rough cuts, test shoots, early ideas. After each showing, we open the room for thoughtful feedback and reflection. There’s no competition and no gatekeeping. This Is Not A Screening! is a space to breathe, listen, and build community around shared values. Followed by a networking space open everyone interested in the overlap between migration and film. Hosted by This Is Not A Screening! | Curated in partnership with Hekayyatna TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/c456669f-1db0-4617-92c2-9c49949e3278/Screenshot+2025-10-28+at+20.58.13.png LMFF 2025 - Maydegol Film + Q&A | 2 Dec; 7:30pm | SOAS Alumni Lecture Theatre An Afghan teen girl living in Teheran lives for her dream to become a professional Muay Thai boxer. To do so, she has to overcome many hurdles - rigid training, a family that doesn’t approve of her dream, and the severe limitations imposed on Afghan refugees living in Iran. A timely documentary looking at the situation for Afghans who have fled decades of conflict and repressive regimes - and at the ways in which people cope with the uncertainty they face. Dir: Sarvnaz Alambeigi | Length: 1h 13min | Language: Persian, Dari, English TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/721df261-0c0d-43e8-b47a-423321779868/WhatsApp+Image+2025-11-02+at+17.36.22.jpg LMFF 2025 - Migrant Cinema - A Journey Through Time *London Migration Film Festival Closing Night* Short Films + Talk | 3 Dec, time 7:00pm| Genesis Cinema This special event marks ten years of migrant cinema by looking not only at what has been represented, but at what can now be imagined. Opening with a short reflection on how migrant cinema has shifted over the last decade, the programme brings together four films that move beyond crisis narratives into speculative, dream-like and ancestral registers. Through fantasy, parable, transcendence and ritual, these works imagine other ways of being, belonging and moving through the world. The screening is followed by a panel conversation reflecting on how migrant filmmaking has evolved, what border-abolitionist and decolonial futures might look like on screen, and how cinema can help reimagine migration beyond the limits of the nation-state. 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The aim of the London Migration Film Festival is to portray the diversity, nuance and subjective experience of migration - in order to restore the dignity and humanity inherent within it. The next edition of London Migration Film Festival is from 24-30 November 2022. If you want to know more please get in touch at themigrationcollective(at)gmail.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1555934655416-1H554DVXMS65PUVI8PZE/stories+untold.jpg Projects - Stories Untold Stories Untold is a short-film series that spoke to 6 London based migrants from different social, political and economic backgrounds, who told us their story with their own words. We are aiming to share these stories far and wide, screening them in schools, businesses and both national and international festivals. To know more about them, or to plan a screening of the film, click here or get in touch at themigrationcollective(at)gmail.com. 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The festival included as many participatory events as possible, to facilitate conversations on themes such as the relation between race and migration in literature, or how is it possible to write about the experiences of ‘others’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1555934352507-723F01DXNN818223DEJ2/book+club.jpg Projects - Migration & Diaspora Bookclub Over the past few years a growing number of writers have focused on the experience of migrants and members of diasporas. Starting from July 2018 we have been hosting regular book club gatherings to explore the work of authors such as Kamila Shamsie, Guy Gunaratne, Sam Selvon, Moshin Hamid and many more. If you want to join the book club, have suggestions or just want to meet new people who share a passion for literature and migration click here and join our next gathering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1555934702981-W4EBFJEX5HPCU8FUZHZI/living+library+.jpeg Projects - Living Library The Living Library is exactly what it says it is - a library made up of lives. Through it, you will be given the opportunity to 'read' chapters of someone's experience, as the books in this case are actually people. They are there to tell you their story of migration, of their journey, of their hopes and experiences, of the motivations behind their mobility, of their lives here today. This will give you a chance to engage in a real dialogue with migrants and refugees of different backgrounds and walks of life. We held the first Living Library during Refugee Week 2017, and it was a complete success. If you would like to host the Library, please get in touch with us at themigrationcollective(at)gmail.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1490364788675-EKWL59UMVARBK5HLJ7CT/30461368664_550d30cc49_o.jpg Projects https://www.migrationcollective.com/who-we-are daily 0.75 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1481934998120-FE1POVOHAWHWPEMKG7ID/15493718_10155052835271564_3991065161241044454_o.jpg Who we are https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1481934957464-I7W4DQOJZ18WS3N22BQF/me.png Who we are https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1523544855319-DOQDG8CWPLROYKAJK5Q5/vc.jpg Who we are https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1547159835748-R1GYM66QV5JJZVXQ11WC/Sal.jpg Who we are https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1482251799007-V6S09S8H6ZQIM9DK3O6R/30557120484_332b234510_o.jpg Who 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1508655173767-2HJH2U825WZ62MQKDXC8/between+fences+poster.jpg LMFF 2017 film list BETWEEN FENCES, 2016 (Israel) Avi Mograbi and Chen Alon meet African asylum-seekers in a detention facility in the middle of the Negev desert where they are confined by the state of Israel. Together, they question the status of the refugees in Israel using ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ techniques. The film asks pressing questions of those people on both sides of the camera: What leads men and women to leave everything behind and go towards the unknown? Why does Israel, land of the refugees, refuse to take into consideration the situation of the exiled, thrown onto the roads by war, genocide and persecution? Can Israelis, and others, working with the asylum seekers put themselves in the refugee’s shoes? Can their collective unconscious be conjured up? Director: Avi Mograbi Length: 85 mins Where and when: Genesis Cinema, Sunday 3 December, 15:30 Price and tickets: £6.5-10; buy a ticket here. Q&A: Sue Clayton (Goldsmiths / filmmaker), member of New Arts Studio (art therapy with refugees), Federica Mazzara (University of Westminster) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1508654812982-E3CS97RBU0RV0MRFMFQ5/images.jpeg LMFF 2017 film list GOD'S OWN COUNTRY, 2017 (UK) Spring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path. Director: Francis Lee Length: 1h 44min Where and when: Genesis Cinema, Friday 1 December, 18:30pm Price and tickets: £6.6-10; buy a ticket here. Q&A: Alexandra Bulat (UCL), Nicolas Hatton (The 3 Million), Seán McGovern (Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Fest) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1508655080184-F764Q4PKJTOD0TEP1J1Y/THE+AMBASSADOR%27S+WIFE.jpg LMFF 2017 film list THE AMBASSADOR'S WIFE, 2016 (Israel) Yerusalem is an intelligent and elegant woman married to the Eritrean ambassador in Paris. After her husband's assassination, she is forcibly repatriated to Eritrea, from which she flees into Israel. She now finds her fortunes and status reversed, as she begins a life as an undocumented asylum seeker in Tel Aviv. The Ambassador's Wife shows how anyone could become an asylum seeker, as well as offering a glimpse into the little spoken-about the world of Eritrean asylum seekers and their coping strategies in Israel. Director: Dina Zvi-Riklis Length: 40 min Where and when: Deptford Cinema, Saturday 2 December, 13:00 - screened alongside The Parable of the Return and The Virgin Vegan Price and tickets: £4.50-6; buy a ticket here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1508655023152-SXZFHWI5NUTICPFPLEUC/parabola+del+retorno.jpg LMFF 2017 film list THE PARABLE OF THE RETURN, 2016 (UK, Colombia) | *London premiere* Wilson left his home in Medellin (Colombia) on his way to Bogotá but never arrived to his destination. Thirty years later after the peace agreements with FARC, he returns from exile in London to meet his family, who believe him dead. This film offers a glimpse into the life of a long-term refugee living in London, the reasons that made him leave his country, and his sometimes conflicting emotions as he decides to go back. An experimental movie filmed from the perspective of Wilson, showing us what he sees on his journey, The Parable of the Return blurs the lines between fiction and reality. Director: Juan Soto Length: 41 min Where and when: Deptford Cinema, Saturday 2 December, 13:00 - screened alongside The Ambassador's Wife and The Virgin Vegan Price and tickets: £4.50-6; buy a ticket here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1508655003643-FX4O5F7SLRCTO448H4V9/the+other+side+of+hope.jpg LMFF 2017 film list THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE, 2017 (Finland) Winner of Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival, The Other Side of Hope interlaces the struggles of two men who have fled their homes. The first is Khaled, a Syrian asylum seeker who arrives in Helsinki as a stowaway on a coal freighter. The second escapee doesn’t undertake quite such a hazardous journey. Wikström walks out on his alcoholic wife, wins a fortune at poker and buys a failing restaurant called the Golden Pint. Despite the tragic situation it portrays, the film is full of humour and food-for-thought, making it a pure delight. Director: Aki Kaurismäki Length: 1h 40 mins Where and when: Genesis Cinema, Saturday 2 December, 18:00 - screened alongside Roots, Only Roots. Price and tickets: £6.5-10; buy a ticket here. Q&A: Saad Eddine Said (Battersea Art Centre), Katie Barlow (photographer and documentarist) and Lucy Carrigan (International Rescue Committee) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1509354151670-V5ZARF8MC8Q4XCXRXPPL/abigail-+poster.jpg LMFF 2017 film list ABIGAIL, 2017 (Turkey) Anna is a woman in her late twenties who emigrated to Turkey from Russia. She makes her living by nursing a housebound and unresponsive older woman. After an unexpected development, Anna decides to change her job, but this decision makes things harder for her. This quiet film considers the sacrifices people make: for their families, in choosing to migrate, and in small everyday choices. The film offers a gently sad insight into the coercion implicit in hidden industries, such as being a carer. Director: Soner Sert Length: 17 mins Where and when: Deptford Cinema, Sunday 3 December, 17:30 - screened alongside The Dog Price and tickets: £4.50-6, buy a ticket here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1508655197788-OORPY5TI93KP8U1E96CL/ambaradan.jpg LMFF 2017 film list AMBARADAN, 2017 (Italy) | *UK premiere* Luca is an Italian man of African heritage who was adopted when he was a kid. Striving to fit in a predominantly white society that has 'othered' him throughout all is life, he becomes racist and joins far-right groups. Ambaradan explores themes of belonging, identity and rejection, and shows the journey that today's migrants in Italy and elsewhere go through while navigating in a societies unwilling to accept the 'other'. Director: Amin Nour and Paolo Negro Length: 15 min Where and when: Genesis Cinema, Sunday 3 December, 18:00 - screened alongside Per Un Figlio Price and tickets: £6.5-10; buy a ticket here. Q&A: Golam Tipu (representative of the Italian/Bengali community), Angelo Boccato (journalist) and Paolo Negro and Marzia Ercolani (director and lead female actress in Ambaradan) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1508870043723-3639T6S9U76KY79K3YFK/the+virgin+vegan.jpg LMFF 2017 film list THE VIRGIN VEGAN, 2016 (South Africa) After spending 3 years in England completing her MBA studies, golden girl Thato has returned to her butchery owning, South African township home with a new diet. She's a vegan. At her welcome home dinner party, all is revealed...but not all is understood. A VEGAAN? VEGEEN? VIRGIN?? Misunderstanding and misinterpreting her new lifestyle as a vegan for the word 'virgin' her family want to believe she's changed her diet due to her virtue. A light comedy, The Virgin Vegan looks at the experience of a young woman who upon returning to her home country as she needs to adjust to her family's traditions and expectations for her own future. Director: Reabetswe Moeti Length: 24 min Where and when: Deptford Cinema, Saturday 2 December, 13:00 - screened alongside The Parable of the Return and The Ambassador's Wife Price and tickets: £4.50-6; buy a ticket here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1510075461416-QF034LRZ1O1H9OFPQFB2/Underground4+Print.jpg LMFF 2017 film list UNDERGROUND, 2017 (Denmark) Ali travelled from Afghanistan to Denmark in 2011 to seek asylum, but after two and a half years his case was refused. Since then he has lived underground, and undocumented, in Copenhagen. 'Underground' explores Ali's experiences of living under the radar as a failed asylum seeker in Denmark. This quiet, intimate film considers how the conditions of ‘rightlessness’ and ‘deportability’ influence Ali’s general experience of time, place, and belonging. Director: Julie Høj Thomsen Length: 22 mins Where and when: Genesis Cinema, Sunday 3 December, 15:30 - screened alongside Between Fences Price and tickets: £6.5-10; buy a ticket here. Q&A: Sue Clayton (Goldsmiths / filmmaker), member of New Arts Studio (art therapy with refugees), Federica Mazzara (University of Westminster) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1508655113557-ETZ8N0ENNAP928EG6SPD/la+cocina+de+las+patronas.jpg LMFF 2017 film list LA COCINA DE LAS PATRONAS, 2016 (Mexico) | *UK premiere* ‘Las Patronas’ is a town in Mexico. The train, La Bestia, that passes everyday through it carries migrants from Central American on their way to the US border, on a dangerous journey lasting many days. Everyday a group of women in Las Patronas cook meals that they hand to migrants on the train, giving them a comforting bit of food on their journey. ‘La Cocina de las Patronas’ is a documentary that shows how small acts can become grassroots activism that positively impacts migrants' lives, while creating a better understanding of migration from between Central and North America. Director: Javier García Length: 1 h 4 min Where and when: Deptford Cinema, Saturday 2 December, 19:00-21:00 Price and tickets: £4.5-6, buy a ticket here. Q&A: Q&A: Rebecca Baron (Ben & Jerrys), Jennie Corbett (Doctors of the World), and Sue Clayton (filmmaker/Goldsmiths). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1508655232948-583C0G8KYJ5G1OLN2YX4/human+flow.jpeg LMFF 2017 film list HUMAN FLOW, 2017 (USA) | *London preview* Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Human Flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration. The documentary elucidates both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. Captured over the course of an eventful year in 23 countries, the film follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretches across the globe in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Greece, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, and Turkey. Director: Ai Weiwei Length: 2 h 20 min Where and when: Somerset House, 5 December, 19:30 Price and tickets: £15. Buy a ticket here. This screening will be a London preview, and the event will be introduced by one of the film's writers Tim Finch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1510238289769-1QPL1VI0IVBKTYD1DWZY/Roots+Only+Roots_Zaki_Samoud_Tunisia.jpg LMFF 2017 film list ROOTS, ONLY ROOTS, 2017 (Tunisia) During a clandestine tour in Italy, an interview between an immigrant and two journalists takes an unexpected turn. The events revealed prove to be dreadful. Director: Zaki Samoud Length: 5.45 mins Where and when: Genesis Cinema, Saturday 2 December, 18:00 - screened alongside The Other Side of Hope Price and tickets: £6.5-10; buy a ticket here. Q&A: Saad Eddine Said (Battersea Art Centre), Katie Barlow (photographer and documentarist) and Lucy Carrigan (International Rescue Committee) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1508654966109-2CP2XMHC3YXPEEC9SUYO/The+Art+Of+Moving-Poster+A2.jpg LMFF 2017 film list THE ART OF MOVING, 2016 (Germany, Turkey) A group of Syrian video activists being threatened in south-eastern Turkey because of their anti-Isis comedy sketches relocates to Istanbul with a plan to set up a new satirical TV show. However, unexpected events force the group to decide, one by one, how and whether they can continue. This documentary offers a fresh look at the experiences of Syrians in Turkey, both in the way they see themselves ('A refugee? I'm just someone who had to leave their country because of war'), and in the way they decide to use satire and comedy to challenge ISIS. A new, compelling form to talk about the so-called ‘refugee crises’. The film switches perspectives between an external observer and the subjects of the documentary themselves, as they film and talk into the camera, while incorporating also parts of the satirical videos they produce, thus offering a very dynamic pace. Director: Liliana Dulce Marinha de Sousa Length: 1h 28min Where and when: Genesis Cinema, Saturday 2 December 15:30pm Price and tickets: £6.5-10; buy a ticket here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1508655157314-ESLAS5L5POCEI2YLMIM8/el-futuro-perfecto-poster.jpg LMFF 2017 film list EL FUTURO PERFECTO, 2016 (Argentina) Xiaobin, a young Chinese immigrant in Buenos Aires, tries to find her own way through the jungle of contradictions in her new everyday life. This film focuses on the integration experience of Xiaobin, as she learns a new language, meets people outside the tight Chinese community and gets acquainted with the new society that has become her home. Director: Nele Wohlatz Length: 1 h 5 min Where and when: Deptford Cinema, Saturday 2 December, 16:00 - screened alongside Toprak and Exotique Price and tickets: £4.50-6, buy a ticket here We are able to offer you this film thanks to the support of MUBI. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1509821085897-3R1801ADZEVP4T3UL215/Screen+Shot+2017-11-04+at+6.39.48+PM.png LMFF 2017 film list WEARING OUR DIGNITY, 2017 (Canada) At a women's centre in Quebec, women of all different backgrounds come together to actively engage with and support one another. But each woman has her own reason for coming along. This subtle documentary talks to immigrant and Quebecois women about the integration with both their new reality and each other. Director: Clarissa Rebouças Length: 24 min Where and when: Deptford Cinema, Saturday 2 December, 19:00 - screened alongside La Cocina de las Patronas Price and tickets: £4.5-6, buy a ticket here. Q&A: Q&A with people engaged in activism at different levels: Rebecca Baron (Ben & Jerrys), Jennie Corbett (Doctors of the World), and Sue Clayton (filmmaker/Goldsmiths). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1511789935618-TC84JUTXP3X5P7RZD2OA/Poster+Small.jpg LMFF 2017 film list OKSIJAN, 2017 (UK) Oksijan tells the true story of a 7-year old Afghan boy who finds himself trapped in a refrigerated truck with 14 other refugees as they are smuggled into the UK. Director: Edward Watts Length: 18min Where and when: Genesis Cinema, Saturday 2 December 15:30pm - screened alongside The Art of Moving Price and tickets: £6.5-10; buy a ticket here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1511307159280-756H35DBOXHOIICHU9NH/poster+with+laurels+MISAFIR+A++++++++++++++guest+%282%29.jpg LMFF 2017 film list MISAFIR "A GUEST", (2017) Turkey The film follows three teenage refugees who have fled to Istanbul from countries enthralled in wars (Syria, Afghanistan, Palestine) searching for better lives - a city which has embraced them as 'guests' rather than as 'refugees'. Director: Mariam El Marakeshy Length: 26 mins Where and when: Upstairs at the Ritzy, Sunday 3 December, 13:00 - screened as part of the Young Refugee Roundtable Price and tickets: £2, his film is presented thanks to the support of Global Migration Film Festival and IOM UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1508655135695-62BWE7Z25IY3HZNPBQ2Z/TOPRAK+-+Affiche+sans+festival+170801.jpeg LMFF 2017 film list TOPRAK, 2017 (France), | *UK premiere* Toprak, 8, translates for his parents who can't speak French. Today, he goes to the hospital with them for his mother's second trimester ultrasound. He will be the first one to know if the twin babies are brothers or sisters. Director: Onur Yagiz Length: 11 min Where and when: Deptford Cinema, Saturday 2 December, 16:00 - screened alongside Exotique and El Futuro Perfecto Price and tickets: £4.50-6, buy a ticket here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1508655298655-OV9MBZI2PG93QVS5F8RG/THE_DOG_by_Lam_Can-zhao.jpg LMFF 2017 film list THE DOG, 2016 (China) | *London premiere* The director follows a stray puppy in the streets of Guangzhou, China, offering glimpses in the lives of the many people it gets in touch with and is taken care by. Most of them are migrant workers who have moved to the mega-city to work in construction or in factories. In the past two decades more than 220 million people migrated within China, from the countryside to the fast-growing cities on the coast, representing the biggest migration flow in human history. The Dog, a black and white, contemplative film, offers us a rare insight into their lives. The first feature film of 20-year old Canzhao Lan, his work has been compared to Jia Zhangke and Chantal Akerman. The film has been realised by a very small crew and stars only non-professional actors, giving the film a sense of immersive realism. Director: Canzhao Lan Length: 1h 28 min Where and when: Deptford Cinema, Sunday 3 December, 17:30 Price and tickets: £4.50-6, buy a ticket here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1508656114357-3WUSSGKC8ZGNGQ35MRKD/locandina.jpg LMFF 2017 film list PER UN FIGLIO/FOR A SON, 2016 (Italy, Sri Lanka) | *UK premiere* Sunita, a middle-aged srilankan woman, lives with her teenage son in the outskirts of a northern Italian city where she works as a domestic worker. The relationship between mother and son is fraught with tension and silence. Having grown up in Italy, the boy is a cultural hybrid his mother struggles to understand, as she fights to live in a country to which she does not want to belong. Director: Suranga Deshapriya Katugampala Length: 1 h 14 min Where and when: Genesis Cinema, Sunday 3 December, 18:00 - screened alongside Ambaradan Price and tickets: £6.5-10; buy a ticket here. Q&A: Golam Tipu (representative of the Italian/Bengali community), Angelo Boccato (journalist) and Paolo Negro and Marzia Ercolani (director and lead female actress in Ambaradan) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1508935442722-QW42P3Y2FP3ABDKPLW27/Affiche+Exotique+%28re%CC%81duite%29.jpg LMFF 2017 film list EXOTIQUE, 2015 (France) Philomène, a Parisian teenager of African origin, loves Bastien, a guy in her class. But with her frizzy hair, she doesn't feel she has the weapons of seduction to challenge all those girls with sleek hair. So she gets a weave. Philomène lives this 'capillary change' as a metamorphosis. 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Director: Soraya Milla Length: 18 min Where and when: Deptford Cinema, Saturday 2 December, 16:00 - screened alongside Toprak and El Futuro Perfecto Price and tickets: £4.50-6, buy a ticket here https://www.migrationcollective.com/london-migration-film-festival-1 daily 0.75 2018-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1508484856608-8RETZMTSH6E4CCAV9UOB/images.jpeg London Migration Film Festival 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1511790169535-GE6KGQLLP5ICS3FHTOT3/Poster+Small.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1508484985616-9SXUPSSL6DYWMDXZ6XRK/The+Art+Of+Moving-Poster+A2.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1508870984309-6L7JE30N1SC2HPB3WLB6/Roots+only+roots.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2017 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Migration Film Festival 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1508498586990-YB441AIU2QPK6HS0Z80J/ritzy.jpeg London Migration Film Festival 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1508871653894-W2LULSV0KM15FAIPYWX5/Dartmouth+Films+Logo+Black.png London Migration Film Festival 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1508448969828-0TIAJLCM7MUGR0RPDTDZ/London+Migration+Film+Festival+poster+4.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2017 https://www.migrationcollective.com/lmff-2018-film-list daily 0.75 2018-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1540712533518-23L2OBJ45GEYSP7JU3VW/royal+cafe.jpg LMFF 2018 film list ROYAL CAFE, 2016 (France) A Swiss-Tibetan filmmaker moves to Paris, where she wants to make a film about the local Tibetan community. To do so, she starts hanging out at Royal Cafe, one of the meeting places for Tibetans in Paris. Here she meets people with different backgrounds and experiences of being part of the Tibetan diaspora. Director: Tenzin Dazel & Rémy Caritey Length: 39min Where and When: Deptford Cinema, Sunday 2 December, 5.30pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1540667946986-5N77PLATJ3F17YU68LA5/el+mar+la+mar.jpg LMFF 2018 film list EL MAR LA MAR, 2017 (USA) Vast and sprawling, the Sonoran Desert is mostly empty. The landscape is a landscape of death. Traces of human and animal attempts to venture through it accumulate, fade and decompose, until their very existence is inscribed in its topography. This is the route which the poorest of immigrants take. El Mar La Mar takes you through an unforgiving landscape where life and death, beauty and dread, hostile sunlight and glittering starlit nights mingle into a journey which few could live to tell. Director: Joshua Bonnetta and J. P. Sniadecki Length: 1h 34min Where and when: Genesis Cinema, Sunday 2 December, 3.30pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541192011604-PR9X8MMN5T50YS9DAF6E/merger.jpg LMFF 2018 film list THE MERGER, 2018 (Australia) Screened in collaboration with IOM - UN Migration Agency and Global Migration Film Festival With the club facing ruin, a country footy coach takes the community and himself on a journey of change as he executes a plan to recruit refugees to ensure the team and the town survives. Director: Mark Grentell 1h 43min Where and when: Somerset House, Saturday 1 December, 5:30pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541168352413-U8SJ8GSMHHO7UGOX4X5T/Screenshot+2018-11-02+at+14.18.33.png LMFF 2018 film list VIOLETTA: A PRIVATE LIFE WITH A POLISH MIGRANT, 2012 (UK) This observational documentary tells the story of a group of Polish immigrants living in Plumstead, London. They share one house, and their individual every day life is connected by the shared space of the Victorian terrace. The ordinary life is seen from the perspective of one woman: Violetta, who expresses her feelings and experiences of migration in intimate interviews, stories and memories. Director: M+M Hawkins Length: 49min Where and when: Deptford Cinema, Sunday 2 December, 2:30pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1540717337741-GMNNJNYTOBGIGX8K2FA1/twin+flower.jpg LMFF 2018 film list TWIN FLOWER, 2018 (Italy) A young woman from Italy and a young man from Ivory Coast are running away from their ghosts. They meet each other in a small town in Sardinia - and find out that what unites them is more powerful than what separates them. Director: Laura Luchetti Length: 1h 36min Where and when: Peckham Springs, Wednesday 5 December, 7.30pm Screened alongside Island. Tickets here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1540667258144-KPM55DF9B2R3IZZMEH2P/Wajib.jpg LMFF 2018 film list WAJIB, 2017 (Palestine, France) Shadi is a hipster Palestinian architect living in Italy. He returns to Nazareth for his sister’s wedding, helping his father, Abu, in the tradition of hand-delivering hundreds of invitations to guests. As they spend time together, both father and son have their views on family and tradition challenged, as they grapple with the Palestinian reality of living under occupation. Director: Annemarie Jacir Length: 1h 36min Where and when: Genesis Cinema, Saturday 1 December, 6:30pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541271997452-1EHSHHBRH97LHQ0EULJJ/Screenshot+2018-11-03+at+19.04.50.png LMFF 2018 film list ASMAT, 2015 (Italy) A video to commemorate the victims of the disaster that occurred on October 3, 2013, off the coast of Lampedusa. Its intention is to force the institutions and civil society, in the words of the director, to “name each and every one, to make us aware of how many names lost their bodies on one single day, in the Mediterranean sea”. Director: Dagmawi Yimer Length: 17min Where and when: Genesis Cinema, Sunday 2 December, 6.30pm (screened alongside The Order of Things) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1540666347634-KFYN0VBQ69XLFW27CXH3/another+news+story.jpg LMFF 2018 film list ANOTHER NEWS STORY, 2017 (Greece, Germany, Croatia) In 2016, Europe is going through a so-called “refugee crisis”. As the western world watches the news of migrants entering European borders, this documentary follows those who follow them — the reporters, cameras and media crews who make that journey undocumented. Director: Orban Wallace Length: 1h 26min Where and when: Genesis Cinema, Friday 30 December, 6.45pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541272773261-IDI12A9VXA04IUVC7NV7/only+my+voice.jpg LMFF 2018 film list ONLY MY VOICE, 2017 (Greece) In transit through Athens, four women from the Middle East share their stories. They all left their countries at different times in their life and for different reasons. As they preferred not to be identified, only their voices are heard. Stories of up-rootedness and contradictory sensation and personal experience of freedom will gradually echo each other; resonating and interacting with the city of Athens. Director: Myriam Rey Length: 12min Where and when: The Lexi Cinema, Monday 3 December, 6:30pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541108816450-MSDQ7NBT73VJ1IPZ8K6D/together+apart.jpg LMFF 2018 film list TOGETHER APART, 2018 (Cyprus, Philippines) Together Apart is an intimate family portrait of two generations of migrant women from the Philippine highlands. 25-year-old Guil Ann follows in mother Carren’s footsteps work as a live-in domestic helper in Cyprus, despite vowing to live a different life than her mother. Having lived apart for most of their lives, mother and daughter are reunited for the first time in years - only to be separated again when Carren gets arrested by the Cypriot immigration police. Director: Maren Wickwire Length: 57min Where and when: Deptford Cinema, Sun 2 Dec, 5.30pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1540754654988-0YS9WAKMQ0XO7NW3L4UT/REVENIR+Poster+%28ENG%29.png LMFF 2018 film list REVENIR, 2018 (France, Ghana, Togo) Revenir follows Kumut Imesh, a refugee from the Ivory Coast now living in France, as he returns to the African continent and attempts to retrace the journey that he took when he was forced to flee civil war in his country… But this time with a camera in his hand. Director: David Fedele & Kumut Imesh Length: 1h 15min Where and when: Deptford Cinema, Monday 3 December, 7pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1540666744337-51Y4H5YOHPI4BUJV6NMV/a+family+tour.jpg LMFF 2018 film list A FAMILY TOUR, 2018 (Taiwan, Hong Kong) One family, three lands. An exiled Chinese film-maker arranges to meet her mother on a travel tour in Taiwan after years of separation. Persecution, family bonds, hopes and fears all blend into a bittersweet trip to remember, as the film explores the complex relationship between China and Hong Kong. Director: Ying Liang Length: 1h 47min Where and when: Genesis Cinema, Saturday 1 December 3.30pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1540929435152-X96P8WIRBEALDJWV3EQQ/OKOL+POSTER.jpg LMFF 2018 film list OUR KIND OF LOVE, UK (2018) Samira, an Afghan village girl, is on her first date in London. Director: Azeem Bhati, Elham Ehsas Length: 16min Where and when: SOAS, Thursday 29 November, 7.30pm Screened alongside The Postman and Little Pyongyang. Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541267808379-KQ6CSAW37OGAVZALOPFZ/Screenshot+2018-11-03+at+17.56.13.png LMFF 2018 film list LUCY, 1984 (USA) Armed with a camera and tape recorder, Verena Rudolph arrives in New York City to search for her aunt Lucy, who disappeared from her Bavarian hometown 50 years ago. Piece by piece, a mosaic of her eccentric life emerges from the tales of her best friends - four women aged between 90 and 100 - and her Black adoptive daughter Luci. Director: Verena Rudolph Length: 47mins Where and when: Deptford Cinema, Sunday 2 December, 12:00noon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541194903405-O7KC70VZCRTTK5ZWS30Y/Screenshot+2018-11-02+at+21.26.24.png LMFF 2018 film list THE IUVENTA, 2017 (UK, Mediterranean) Since the end of 2016, culminating in summer 2017, a growing campaign of delegitimisation and criminalisation has systematically targeted NGOs engaged in search and rescue. The ship Iuventa, of the German NGO Jugend Rettet, was seized by the Italian judiciary under suspicion of ‘assistance to illegal migration’ and collusion with smugglers during three different rescue operations. The seizure came only days after the NGO, along with several others, had refused to sign a ‘code of conduct’ that would have dangerously limited their activities. The video presented here offers a counter-investigation of the authorities’ version of these three episodes, and a refutation of their accusations. Director: Forensic Architecture Length: 33min Where and when: SOAS, Monday 3 December, 7pm (screened alongside Iuventa) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1540936221199-U93DTSN9ZOQJWD140UCG/babylon.jpg LMFF 2018 film list BABYLON, 1980 (UK) London, 1970s. DJ for Brixton reggae sound system 'Ital Lion Sound', Blue is getting ready for the local sound system showdown with rival crew, Jah Shaka. But as the day of the competition approaches, Blue suddenly sees his life falling apart. After losing his job, he's beaten up by the police on a trumped-up charge, and then discovers that all of his sound equipment has been destroyed by local white residents. Tired of having to deal with the constant daily pressures of racial-hatred and intolerance, Blue finally decides to take matters into his own hands. Director: Franco Rosso Length: 1h 30min Where and when: Migration Museum, Monday 3 December [time tbc] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1540730444216-UPV7FVA3IMS0FN6AXRS1/Fareed.png LMFF 2018 film list FAREED, 2018 (Canada) Young Berber dressmaker, Fareed is passionate about poetry and calligraphy. The news in Montreal, where he lives, are constantly filled with stories about the violence and barbaric acts committed in the name of Islam. Fareed has to overcome the way migrants like himself is represented in the media, and fight to become part of society. Director: Rudy Barichello Length: 11min Where and When: Genesis Cinema, Friday 30 November, 6.45pm (screened alongside Another News Story) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541170235982-5G68C7OELEDRBBYVJ6ZM/haw+poster.png LMFF 2018 film list HUSBAND AND WIFE, 2018 (UK) The wife of a Polish migrant comes to London, determined to complete a task. Her husband had lived in Lewisham for a few years before a tragedy changed their lives for ever. When Beata arrives, she finds an extremely hostile environment which she doesn’t understand. The filmmakers follow her as she navigates the bureaucratic procedures in order to bring her husband’s ashes back home. Director: M+M Hawkins Length: 49min Where and when: Deptford Cinema, Sunday 2 December, 2:30pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1540668338235-PVOEWXEGFG07XIQWR7TQ/l%27ordine+delle+cose+3.jpg LMFF 2018 film list THE ORDER OF THINGS, 2017 (Italy) An Italian police officer from the European immigration task force is sent to Libya to strike a deal to turn jails into publicly-funded “hot spots”, where migrants can be kept as authorities process their cases. Here he befriends Swada, a Somali woman trying to reach her family in Rome. Director: Andrea Segre Length: 1h 55mins Where and when: Genesis Cinema, Sunday 2 December, 6.30pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1540670821226-YVERW037HHL3YEKW6865/returnee+poster.jpg LMFF 2018 film list RETURNEE, 2017 (Kazakhstan) Saparkul has decided to return to Kazakhstan, the home country of his father. Because his father is old, he has chosen to give up his position as muezzin in their local mosque in Afghanistan and has already received all the necessary documents by the Kazakh authorities. Together with his wife and daughter, the two men start the long journey from Afghanistan to Kazakhstan. However, the country of Kazakhstan has changed since Saparkul’s father left. And as his health slowly deteriorates, the family is forced to make a living in a place whose people mostly avoid them. Director: Sabit Kurmanbekov Length: 1h 35min Where and when: Deptford Cinema, Sunday 2 December, 8pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1540930573953-5AFK7RA57ZESO7ZHEY3K/before+i+forget.jpg LMFF 2018 film list BEFORE I FORGET, 2018 (Germany, Syria) If you could no longer return to the place where your memories were made, would you still recall them in the same way? Razan Hassan takes us with her on an autobiographical journey trying to recover her only record of the past, while she tries to forge a new identity following her displacement from Syria. Director: Razan Hassan Length: 11min Where and when: Deptford Cinema, Monday 3 December, 7pm (screened alongside Revenir) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1540721583569-IDSA34XWJLUGTZSP9GWI/little+pyongyang.jpg LMFF 2018 film list LITTLE PYONGYANG, 2018 (UK) North Korean defector and a former soldier, Joong-wha Choi, lives with his wife and kids in London. He works in a warehouse on the A3 motorway enjoys the new-found comforts of his British life away from the pressures of the North Korean state. But he remains conflicted, as he desires to return to the land which betrayed him yet undoubtedly remains his true home. Director: Roxy Rezvany Length: 24min Where and When: SOAS, Thursday 29 November, 7.30pm Screened alongside The Postman and Our Kind of Love. Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1540722362426-SZKR0XI1GFHVATNGG646/one+cambodian+family.jpg LMFF 2018 film list ONE CAMBODIAN FAMILY PLEASE FOR MY PLEASURE, 2018 (USA) A refugee from Czechoslovakia has settled down in the US. When she hears about Cambodians refugees fleeing a dictatorship in their country, she is determined to step in and sponsor a Cambodian family so that they can move into her community. Director: A. M. Lukas Length: 13min Where and when: Deptford Cinema, Sunday 2 December, 5.30pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1540733526382-C2AI9G5UMQ0222Q82VI9/Correct+spel+postman.jpg LMFF 2018 film list THE POSTMAN, 2017 (UK) The Postman tells the tale of one Iranian man’s daily journey in London, who writes poetry while delivering the words of others. Director: Vahid Keshavarz Length: 7min Where and when: SOAS, Thursday 29 November, 7.30pm Screened alongside Little Pyongyang and Our Kind of Love. Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541269137308-FDLTW7HG4VJEHUYU8ZCR/Ellis+island+poster.png LMFF 2018 film list ELLIS ISLAND, 1982 (USA) Between 1892 and 1954, over 12 million people arrived at Ellis Island, hoping to enter the United States. For the 280,000 who were turned back, Ellis Island became the “Isle of Tears.” Blending dance, fiction and ghostly imagery, Meredith Monk evokes a dark American legacy. Director: Meredith Monk Length: 28min Where and when: Deptford Cinema, Sunday 2 December, 12:00noon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1540932180521-11L755OOVRLYZF3F2DV7/iuventa.jpg LMFF 2018 film list IUVENTA, 2018 (Germany, Mediterranean) The documentary Iuventa relates the events of a crucial year in the lives of a group of young European men and women all involved in different ways in the Jugend Rettet humanitarian project, starting from the first voyage of the Iuventa ship in the Mediterranean Sea to the heavy accusations that led to the seizure of the vessel more than a year later. Director: Michele Cinque Length: 1h 24min Where and when: SOAS, Monday 3 December, 7pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1540718949427-TR09NVO9DMXDJHIBVGCS/taste+of+cement.jpg LMFF 2018 film list TASTE OF CEMENT, 2017 (Germany, Lebanon) A portrait of workers in exile. An empathetic encounter with people who have lost their past and their future, locked in the recurring present. The director creates an essay documentary of Syrian construction workers building new skyscrapers in Beirut on the ruins caused by the Lebanese civil war. At the same time their own houses are being bombed in Syria. Mute and imprisoned in the cement underground, they must endure until the new day arrives where the hammering and welding drowns out their nightmares. Director: Ziad Kalthoum Length: 1h 15min Where and when: The Lexi Cinema, Monday 3 December, 6:30pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541243940518-9AQ1Z63JAXIZE4IFFUTB/1803019-KAREN-Poster-Web.jpg LMFF 2018 film list I AM GOLDEN KAREN, 2018 (Thailand, Burma) I Am Golden Karen tells the story of Thaawa, a young rapper from Burma’s Karen State who is part of an entire generation that has grown up in Thailand but nurtures a strong desire to return to their motherland. The film follows Thaawa as he negotiates his identity from being a young migrant arriving in Bangkok to becoming a father. He questions his responsibilities towards the family and his desire to both settle in Thailand and return to Karen State. Directors: Maui Druez, Preben Verledens Length: 1h 13min Where and When: Genesis Cinema, Tue 4 Dec, 6.45pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1540936508725-8WZ1HF3M923Z6ES5G93Q/Screen+Shot+2018-10-30+at+21.54.07.png LMFF 2018 film list ISLAND, 2018 (Italy) A migrant in Italy relies on Skype and phone calls to maintain relations with his family. Director: Ege Göksu Length: 3min Where and When: Peckham Springs, Wednesday 5 December, 7.30pm Screened alongside Twin Flower. Tickets here https://www.migrationcollective.com/lmff-2018-programme daily 0.75 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541027534711-JEZ7U8MWB5IN81612CO2/merger.jpg LMFF 2018 programme - The Merger Somerset House, Sat 1 Dec, 5:30pm Tickets here Screened in partnership with IOM, UN Migration Agency and the Global Migration Film Festival A former star footballer turned community outcast is persuaded to coach the struggling, local footy team in his small town in Australia. He recruits refugees to revive the team with hilarious results, and ultimately takes his community on a journey of change. Funny and moving, this film brings loveable characters and levity to a complex issue. Xenophobia, socio-economic challenges and “the good old days” are some of the very real subjects addressed in the Australian comedy “The Merger”. Building on themes of shared interests and integration as a two-way street for both refugees/migrants and the communities where they live. The film will be followed by panel discussion with: Ahmad Al-Rashid (Syrian refugee; IOM), Kevin Coleman (England’s Football Association), Dr Mark Doidge (University of Brighton), and Shaista Aziz (Oxford Diversity League; Oxford City Councillor) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541055943135-8Z1KG5EFQFKD4TYIPQX5/revenir.jpg LMFF 2018 programme - Revenir, Before I Forget Deptford Cinema, Mon 3 Dec, 7pm Tickets here Revenir: Revenir follows Kumut Imesh, a refugee from Ivory Coast now living in France, as he returns to the African continent and attempts to retrace the same journey that he himself took when forced to flee civil war in his country… But this time with a camera in his hand. Before I Forget (short): If you could no longer return to the place where your memories were made, would you still recall them in the same way? Razan Hassan takes us with her onto an autobiographical journey trying to recover her only record of the past, while she is trying to forge a new identity following her displacement from Syria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541279786923-OIW9ZCAWW14CC8GYP6DE/TOC_46-1540x866.jpg LMFF 2018 programme https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541028927630-VP1FARN0SRLJ6AAYAEHX/Hanging_Jugs_1.1.1.jpg LMFF 2018 programme - El Mar La Mar Genesis Cinema, Sun 2 Dec, 7pm. Tickets here Vast and sprawling, the Sonoran Desert is mostly empty. The landscape is a landscape of death. Traces of human and animal attempts to venture through it accumulate, fade and decompose, until their very existence is inscribed in its topography. This is the route which the poorest of immigrants must take. El Mar La Mar takes you through an unforgiving landscape where life and death, beauty and dread, hostile sunlight and glittering starlit nights mingle into a journey which few could live to tell. Created over three years by Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab graduates, this is an immersive and poetic examination of the hostile landscapes that people are forced to move through, once all other routes have been closed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541026681311-12E6SEKTQ6YF0BGPANR8/wajib.jpg LMFF 2018 programme - Wajib Genesis Cinema, Sat 1 Dec, 6.30pm. Tickets here Shadi is a Palestinian, hipster-ish architect living in Italy. He goes back home to Nazareth to attend his sister’s wedding and to help his father Abu hand-deliver hundreds of invitations, following the Palestinian tradition. As they spend time together, father and son will find the time to confront each other on themes such as family values, tradition, as well as living in an occupied country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541054293794-WKUKOHLBBSKS8K5ZMS0U/coverlg_home.jpg LMFF 2018 programme - The Order of Things, Asmat + Q&A Genesis Cinema, Sun 2 Dec, 6.00pm; Tickets here Screened in collaboration with CinemaItaliaUK The Order of Things: An Italian police officer from the European task on immigration is sent to Libya to strike a deal and turn jails into publicly-funded “hot spots”, where migrants traveling to Europe can be kept as authorities process their cases. Here he befriends Swada, a Somali woman trying to reach her family in Rome. Asmat (short): ‘Asmat’ meaning ‘Names’ in Amharic is a poetic elegy to the victims of the 2013 Lampedusa shipwreck. The films will be followed by a panel discussion with: Andrea Segre (film director, The Order of Things); Violeta Moreno-Lax (lead legal adviser on the case pending against Italy for its policy of cooperation with Libya in the containment of migration flows at the European Court of Human Rights); Federica Mazzara (senior lecturer in Intercultural Communication at University of Westiminster). Chaired by Kavinda Navaratne, Universtiy of Turin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541056119009-LAJM6D3PJCC43SMTS8AC/44845511_1158583044306752_9042895007110922240_n.jpg LMFF 2018 programme - Windows of Displacement - play by Akeim Toussaint Buck Upstairs at the Ritzy, Sat 1 Dec, 4.30pm. Tickets here Akeim Toussaint Buck will perform a sonic reworking of his one-of-a-kind solo show, an autobiographically sourced solo: blending dance, song and spoken word to explore personal narratives, ancestral memory and the shifting (and increasingly urgent) politics surrounding the movement of people. Using his own experience of being a Jamaican born citizen now residing in the UK, he considers both historical as well as current political and socio-economic references. Akeim draws on the contexts of imperialism, colonialism and displacement to create a story of the past, present and future of humanity. Prepare to be taken on a journey galvanising people power and reclaiming our collective responsibility! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541853845679-MCN0DP3WX76LC3D53RM5/Programme+final.png LMFF 2018 programme https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541075592772-RZBTT2FHNO4P89MQ8QIT/44829763_1158716290960094_6700058121726853120_o.jpg LMFF 2018 programme - Long-table workshop: Voyeurism in documentary filmmaking on migration Migration Museum, Sun 2 Dec, 12:30pm *sold out* In collaboration with Alternative Fictions As people reached the shores of Greece, moving through Europe in search of safety and security, many filmmakers and photographers moved in the other direction. The power of the camera is the ability to witness and document, to say, “This is what is happening”, but what do these images mean to those being portrayed and to us, as spectators? In this special event, we will open up a discussion about voyeurism, and our position as storytellers, curators and media consumers. We invite you to sit at our table and take part in these discussions with filmmakers, protagonists, curators and activists who will share their work and experiences with us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541055424873-SG1QUFAYMIBLMPL9T4L0/returnee.jpeg LMFF 2018 programme - Returnee Deptford Cinema, Sun 2 December, 8pm Tickets here Saparkul has decided to return to Kazakhstan, the home country of his father. Because his father is old, he has chosen to give up his position as muezzin in their local mosque in Afghanistan and has already received all the necessary documents by the Kazakh authorities. Together with his wife and daughter, the two men start the long journey from Afghanistan to Kazakhstan. However, the country of Kazakhstan has changed since Saparkul’s father left. And as his health slowly deteriorates, the family is forced to make a living in a place whose people mostly avoid them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541078040101-FMW8D552OCXF1DUKXD0O/Screenshot+2018-11-01+at+13.06.40.png LMFF 2018 programme - The Personal is Political: How Polish women negotiate the price of migration + Q&A Deptford Cinema, Sun 2 Dec, 2:30pm Tickets here This double bill and panel discussion offers two observational documentaries exploring everyday struggles of two Polish women in London. Violetta lives in shared accommodation with her adopted friends, lovers and family. Beata has travelled to London to collect her husband’s ashes and achieve closure on a traumatic period of her life. Following the films there will be a panel with: the protagonists of the film, directors M+M Hawkins, Candida Yates (Professor of Culture and Communication, Bournemouth University), Dr. Kathy Burrell (expert on Polish Migration, University of Liverpool), and Dr. Elena Marchevska (Senior Lecturer in Drama and Performance, LSBU) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541058834650-IIGZUOHUOVF1GDDJW4P0/https_%252F%252Fcdn.evbuc.com%252Fimages%252F49299146%252F193759042099%252F1%252Foriginal.jpg LMFF 2018 programme - Extracts from ‘Welcome to the UK’ (theatre) by PsycheDelight In their first play 'Borderline', a group of young refugee and European performers made thousands of people laugh and cry as they staged a satire on the Calais refugee camp. In their second play, which will premiere in London in 2019, they will follow the stories of young asylum seekers as they settle in London. "I had enough sadness. I love making people laugh. it makes me feel better..." Enayat, 17y from Afghanistan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1543570340313-MZWR4E41HV8DBYQ87CMY/47127711_343346793117935_2744086925043302400_n.jpg LMFF 2018 programme - Closing night: Twin Flower, Island + DJ Peckham Springs, Wed 5 December, 7.30pm *sold out* Twin Flower: A young woman from Italy and a young man from Ivory Coast are running away from their ghosts. They meet each other in a small town in Sardinia - and find out that what unites them is more powerful than what separates them. Island (short): A migrant in Italy relies on Skype and phone calls to maintain relations with his family. DJ Blonde Zilla will make us dance to close the night and celebrate the end of LMFF 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1635707341869-YES3T5BZDZ9YVT8B2K0X/Ahmadzia_WebLandscape.jpg LMFF 2018 programme - Afghan kite-making workshop Upstairs at the Ritzy, Sat 1 Dec, 1.30pm. Tickets here Do you have children, or are you a child at heart? Come to our Afghan kite making workshop and get away with your own self-made kite! In Afghanistan kite fliers of all ages come together to display the beautiful kites they have made and sometimes fly them in competitions. At this family-friendly workshop participants will get an opportunity to make an Afghani kite of their own with Ahmadzia, former resident artist at the Horniman Museum Ticket price includes all materials and each attendee will bring home their very own completed kite https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541056998071-G56J77XJGY2T9KXVD0VV/babylon.png LMFF 2018 programme - Babylon + Q&A Migration Museum, Tue 4 Dec, 7pm Tickets here DJ for Brixton reggae sound system 'Ital Lion Sound', Blue is getting ready for the local sound system showdown with rival crew, Jah Shaka. But as the day of the competition approaches, Blue suddenly sees his life falling apart. After losing his job, he's beaten up by the police on a trumped-up charge, and then discovers that all of his sound equipment has been destroyed by local white residents, hostile to his music. Tired of having to deal with the constant daily pressures of racial-hatred and intolerance, Blue finally decides to take matters into his own hands, and strikes out at his oppressors. Followed by a panel discussion with Clive Nwonka (fellow in film studies at LSE), Patrick Vernon OBE (British social activist and commentator of Jamaican heritage, strongly involved in the Windrush Scandal) and others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1543075696688-UY2N6KYTOW0CIXVV4M4B/389-cat-banner.jpg LMFF 2018 programme - Race, Borders and Empire - workshop Migration Museum, Sat 1 Dec, 12.30 *sold out* Workshop delivered by Consented Borders have become part of our common sense so much that it is difficult to imagine a world without them. Many might argue that borders are here to protect us and make us safe. But who is being protected and where is this dangerous threat coming from? Borders are not a natural part of life, but are socially constructed. This workshop will aim to show how borders have always been racist. Whilst who gets to enter borders and under what conditions can also not be separated from histories of Empire, which have rigid notions of race at their core. This workshop will explore: what are borders? What is the historic function of borders? Can we separate borders from histories of Empire? And much more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541244136677-Q7GZP5AWBXQ5UOZACM2A/IAGK.jpg LMFF 2018 programme - I am Golden Karen + Q&A Genesis Cinema, Tue 4 Dec, 6.45pm. Tickets here I Am Golden Karen tells the story of Thaawa, a young rapper from Burma’s Karen State who is part of an entire generation that has grown up in Thailand but nurtures a strong desire to return to their motherland. The film follows Thaawa as he negotiates his identity from being a young migrant arriving in Bangkok to becoming a father. He questions his responsibilities towards the family and his desire to both settle in Thailand and return to Karen State. Followed by a panel discussion examining the role of music & art in negotiating (forced) migration with film directors Maui Druez and Preben Verledens; Mo'min Swaitat, a Palestinian actor, writer, director and workshop facilitator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541854610898-PDLAZB1U2H9YQR319F0C/standup.jpg LMFF 2018 programme - No Direction Home - Standup Comedy Run by Camden People's Theatre and Counterpoints Arts, led by Tom Parry We will be joined by two stand-up comedians of migrant and refugee backgrounds, who will let us see their journeys and their life in London from a new angle. Featuring Majid Adin & Tewodros Aregawe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541060137670-J4ILKJHUUYLPMRXBGBOG/LittlePyong.jpg LMFF 2018 programme - Short films: Little Pyongyang, The Postman, Our Kind of Love (films) Little Pyongyang: Joong-wha Choi is a North Korean defector and a former soldier in the DPRK who today lives with his wife and kids in London and works in a warehouse on the A3 motorway. But, despite enjoying the new found comforts of his British life, and being emancipated from the pressures of the North Korean state, his dilemma lies in a desire to return to the land that betrayed him yet is undoubtedly his true home. The Postman: The Postman tells the tale of one Iranian man’s daily journey in London, who writes poetry while delivering the words of others. Our kind of Love: Samira, an Afghan village girl, is on her first date in London. But all is not as it seems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1542661548443-EUWU16E06V3CTUKC9XKU/45371621_2301794480066311_6369231256365826048_n.jpg LMFF 2018 programme - Ellis Island Special - double bill Deptford Cinema, Sun 2 Dec, 12 (noon) Tickets here 100 million Americans can trace back their ancestry to Ellis Island, the United States’ first federal immigration facility. This double brings together the countless joys and heartbreaks of its monumental 120 year history. ELLIS ISLAND: Between 1892 and 1954, over 12 million people came to Ellis Island attempting to immigrate to the United States. For the 280,000 who were turned back, Ellis Island became the “Isle of Tears.” Blending dance, fiction and ghostly imagery, Meredith Monk evokes a dark American legacy. LUCY: Armed with a camera and tape recorder, Verena Rudolph goes to New York City on a search for her aunt Lucy, 50 years after she disappeared from her Bavarian hometown. Piece by piece, a mosaic of her eccentric life emerges from the tales of her best friends - four women aged between 90 and 100 - and her Black adoptive daughter Luci. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541109428471-XDJWTIDJWLFWUFADCGL8/royal+cafe.jpg LMFF 2018 programme - Royal Cafe, Together Apart, One Cambodian Family Deptford Cinema, Sun 2 December, 5.30pm Tickets here Royal Cafe: A Swiss-Tibetan filmmaker moves to Paris, where she wants to make a film about the local Tibetan community. She starts hanging out at Royal Cafe, where she meets people with different backgrounds and experiences of being part of the Tibetan diaspora. Together Apart: Guil Ann, a 25 year-old woman from the Philippines, follows her mother Carren’s footsteps to work as a live-in domestic helper in Cyprus. Having lived apart for most of their lives, mother and daughter are reunited for the first time in years - only to be separated again when Carren gets arrested by the Cypriot immigration police. One Cambodian Family Please For My Pleasure: A refugee from Czechoslovakia has settled down in the US. As she hears about Cambodians refugees fleeing a dictatorship, she wants to step in and sponsor a Cambodian family so that they can move into her community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541056309195-KGYKFAPW0ML3US0NODFV/cement.png LMFF 2018 programme - Taste of Cement + Q&A The Lexi, Mon 3 December, 6:30pm Tickets here A portrait of workers in exile. An empathetic encounter with people who have lost their past and their future, locked in the recurring present. The director creates an essay documentary of Syrian construction workers building new skyscrapers in Beirut on the ruins caused by the Lebanese civil war. At the same time their own houses are being bombed in Syria. Mute and imprisoned in the cement underground, they must endure until the new day arrives where the hammering and welding drowns out their nightmares. Followed by a panel discussion with: Dr Sunil Kumar (Social Policy & Development, LSE), Sulaiman Osman (Hikayetna, Stories of Syrian), Tony Gammidge (filmmaker & art therapist with Art Refuge UK), and Dr Hanna Baumann (Visiting Lecturer, Centre for Urban Conflicts Research, Cambridge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541026347095-91ZJRXG6F1ZFDRKS137W/Screenshot+2018-10-31+at+22.51.59.png LMFF 2018 programme - A Family Tour Genesis Cinema, Sat 1 Dec, 3.30pm. Tickets here Five years ago director Yang Shu made a film that offended the Chinese government. Since then, she has been forced to remain in exile in Hong Kong, far from her aging mother. So Yang Shu uses the opportunity to attend film festival event in Taiwan to go, with her husband and son, to covertly meet her mother. Meanwhile her mother has arranged to be there on a Chinese government controlled leisure tour. A keen exploration of the growing tensions within China, as well as of dynamics between Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, this film is a subtle and incisive view into how the political manifests personally, and vice-versa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541055772802-3QJMBQCAL1XFSC8AL4RG/iuventa+2.jpeg LMFF 2018 programme - Iuventa, The Iuventa + Q&A SOAS, Mon 3 Dec, 7pm *sold out* The Iuventa is boat commissioned a German charity, to rescue migrants between Libya and Italy. At this event we will examine Iuventa’s journey through documentary and forensic architecture. By doing so, we will draw out the intersecting humanitarian, geopolitical, economic and discursive implications of Iuventa’s work, and analyse how the humanitarian sector has become increasingly criminalised and privatised. Iuventa: The film relates the events of a crucial year in the lives of a group of young European men and women all involved in different ways, starting from the Iuventa’s first voyage in the Mediterranean Sea to the accusations that led to the seizure of the vessel more than a year later. Followed by a panel with: Lorenzo Pezzani (Lecturer, Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths), Martina Tazzioli (Lecturer in Geography, Swansea University), Paolo Novak (Lecturer in Development Studies, SOAS), and Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax (Senior Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary Uni, Advisor on Iuventa case at ECHR) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541056675234-K73BO5UBNS4X7S4KJWUH/another+news+stoy.jpg LMFF 2018 programme - Another News Story, Fareed + Q&A Genesis Cinema, Fri 30 Nov, 6:30pm. Tickets here Another News Story: During the so-called “refugee crisis” two groups of people were on the move: the refugees and the journalists filming them. This documentary follows the second group. It boldly confronts the viewer with questions: when faced with suffering, how do journalists balance their humanity with professional objectivity and the day to day mundanity of their jobs? Is it possible to walk the line between a good story and sensationalism? Or, glazed, do you just go after another news story? Fareed (short): Fareed is a Berber dressmaker passionate about poetry and calligraphy. While the news is dominated by violence done in the name of Islam, he battles against the fear and ignorance encouraged by simplistic representations of migrants. The films will be followed by a panel discussion with: Orban Wallace (director, Another News Story), Rudy Barichello (director, Fareed), Tania Kaiser (Senior Lecturer in Forced Migration, SOAS) https://www.migrationcollective.com/london-migration-film-festival-2018 daily 0.75 2019-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541061085385-PGEFUTWTXM26P038DCVB/little+pyongyang.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541060999305-0XMCNFRPABT0A0607GT9/Correct+spel+postman.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541061351326-J1XQDIPYOC9GIAX71QJW/OKOL+POSTER.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1541061209530-ZV8M63MYYTXLTSV40RUO/Screen+Shot+2018-10-28+at+12.36.48.png London Migration Film Festival 2018 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But they don’t know this yet. So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another. Join our first remote Book Club! When? 23rd of April Where? Skype https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1555935628214-MG2JZSHD1THFREMP0HMF/book+club.jpg Migration & Diaspora bookclub https://www.migrationcollective.com/migration-diaspora-literature-festival daily 0.75 2020-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1563125058122-0LBJRJAZPPUJLTHSC9U4/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-06-02%2Bat%2B18.57.31.jpg Migration & Diaspora Literature Festival - Opening Gala: ‘The Author is Absent’ We welcome you to the launch of the inaugural Migration & Diaspora Literature Festival, which will be followed by a short reception. 'The author is absent' will showcase work by authors who were - or still are - unable to cross certain borders, even though their work could. Of our five confirmed writers, one languishes indefinitely in an Australian immigration detention centre, another was held arbitrarily in house arrest, while another cannot get a visa to visit the UK. Their works will be performed, in absentia, by an artist from the same country of origin. This event highlights the materiality of borders and their everyday effects, and considers how this challenges freedom of expression. When & Where? Greenwich Maritime Museum, 9 August, 7-9pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1563125553469-7GM5PJ3NW6NJWIGT4R3L/spoken+word.jpg Migration & Diaspora Literature Festival - A night of Poetry and Spoken Word This is a night to celebrate! We’ve decided to end the very first Migration and Diaspora Literature Festival with a showcase talent from the diasporas. Migration Collective has invited a line-up of writers, poets and artists who identify as being part of, or connect to the diasporas across the UK, or simply those who want to share their experience of migration. Come join us at the Pelican. And…..it’s free! When & Where? Peckham Pelican, 11 August, 7-9pm Tickets here photo credit: Omar Victor Diop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1563124748070-UYT42IPV3WMUIQ74ITWT/workshop.jpg Migration & Diaspora Literature Festival - Workshop - Writing the stories of others What role can we all have in writing about the experiences of refugees and migrants? What are the problems in this? What role does power play? What might their voices add to the discussion? What problems might there be in holding individual refugees and migrants out as the spokesman of diverse groups of people? And more hopefully, what role can literature play in bringing people together? How could we use literature to break down the barrier between the self and 'the other'? When & Where? Feminist Library, 10 August, 2.30-4.30pm Tickets here photo credit: Cecilia Paredes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1563125131954-FMHRAF3HSDJVUORSDFN5/celestial%2Bbodies.jpg Migration & Diaspora Literature Festival - Migration & Diaspora Book Club Celestial Bodies by Jokha al-Harthi, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2019, is a coiled spring of a novel, telling of Oman's coming-of-age through the prism of one family's losses and loves. Celestial Bodies offers a new angle for considering migration: as a process that affects those left behind as much as those who move. When & Where? Feminist Library, 10 August, 12.30-2pm Tickets Here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1564845782813-YYCQBPZNE8TBT7TIB7RH/Royal+Holloway+logo.jpg Migration & Diaspora Literature Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1563141152318-6F50BDOIYC8PGZT5UKV0/pearl+high+res+cropped.jpg Migration & Diaspora Literature Festival https://www.migrationcollective.com/lmff-2019-film-list daily 0.75 2019-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1571594064305-75EU9BYZZQ9M9H3FNTLG/transit+2.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List TRANSIT, 2018 (Germany, France) In today’s France, Germans are hunted by the police and brutally arrested. Georg manages to flee Paris, and to secure an escape to Mexico. While he is waiting for his time to leave, he is confined to the corridors of a small hotel, the consulates, cafés and bars that line the harbour. But everything changes when Georg falls in love with the mysterious Marie. A metaphysical mystery about identity - and a dream of something that happened long ago, or something yet to come… Director: Christian Petzold Length: 1h 41min Where and When: Genesis Cinema, Saturday 30 November, 4:30pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572611725053-UFJGIUUGN8Z8URZLMYGF/vertical_poster.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List LORD FALAFEL, 2019 (UK) This is Muhammad Alhussein's story. A story about what matters most in life: freedom, family, finding a new home - and food. Director: Leeya Mirza Length: 3min Where and when: Genesis Cinema, Saturday 30 November, 7:00pm Screened with: Ramen Shop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1571782145477-DU1X75OFJLYAGMUE9K24/Rosso_Poster_IT.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List ROSSO : LA VERA STORIA FALSA DEL PESCATORE CLEMENTE, 2019 (Italy) Clemente is an old Sicilian fisherman who goes on working in spite of his old age. His life is disrupted the day he finds a young refugee’s dead body stuck in the fishnets. Director: Antonio Messana Length: 29min Where and When: Genesis Cinema, Sunday 1 December, 3:50pm Screened with: The Flood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1574063681122-5KXHJUN51GRHO0GACQXJ/b%26w+verticalposter.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List GRANDMOTHER, 2019 (UK) ‘Grandmother’ tells the story of migration through the faces that you might not associate with the anger and hatred that fuels British news and politics: the faces of granny, naniji and baba - three ordinary grandmothers. Step into their worlds, and understand the story of the UK via their stories. Director: Heather Dirckze, Charanpreet Khaira, Melina Campos Length: 6min Where and when: Anytime on our online programme https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572561326393-K103I57FJM40XQ1SZ7Z4/ramen+shop+poster.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List RAMEN SHOP, 2018 (Singapore, Japan) Masato, a young ramen chef, leaves his hometown in Japan to embark on a culinary journey to Singapore to find out the truth about his past. And in doing so he uncovers a lot more than family secrets and delicious recipes. Director: Eric Khoo Length: 1hr 30min Where and when: Genesis Cinema, Saturday 30 November, 7:00pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572043741126-K7IOG9DJMB103R1SWQBW/chez+jolie+coiffure.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List CHEZ JOLIE COIFFURE, 2018 (Belgium) Enter the Jolie Coiffure hair salon in the Matonge district of Brussels, where charismatic owner Sabine presides over customers' flirting, gossiping, and harrowing tales of immigration. And behind it all, despite having been in Belgium for almost a decade, Sabine herself is still awaiting a decision on her asylum claim. Director: Rosine Mbakam Length: 1hr 10min Where and when: Upstairs at the Ritzy, Monday 2 December, 6:15pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1574064287053-TPDX0S99BQ2GHXI4EDYS/TheDeadDieOnce_Poster_v7.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List THE DEAD DIE ONCE, 2019 (USA, Syria) Based on a short story by Syrian writer Jehan Sayed Issa, ‘The Dead Die Once’ centres on a young refugee living in the U.S. whose evening routine is transformed by the power of memory. When her kitchen radio picks up familiar voices demanding freedom, she is drawn into a place where food can unite friends and family across time and space. Director: Max McGillivray and Alex Morelli Written by: Jehan Sayed Issa Length: 8min Where and when: Anytime on our online programme https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1571593809788-GBYGM1QDFPC3MERR651R/arab-blues-movie-poster.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List ARAB BLUES, 2019 (France, Tunisia) After years abroad in Paris, Selma returns ‘home’ to Tunis to set up a psychoanalysis practice to help local citizens cope with the stress of the post-Arab Spring cultural and social changes. Director: Manele Labidi Length: 1h 28min Where and When: Genesis Cinema, Friday 29 November, 6:30pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1574063761429-5185HRAFATFT3CN89TNW/Scenes+From+a+Migranthood+-+Poster+20190506.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List SCENES FROM A MIGRANTHOOD, 2019 (Sweden) Simon won't tell Akif about his secret mushroom spot, so Akif follows him into the forest and hunts him down with his rifle. The real Simon is not sure whether this is good art, nor if it's a good idea to make a film where a young Afghan refugee wants to kill a Swede. Akif's answer is a sardonic poem he's written at a poetry workshop about his brother who's no longer with us. Director: Roozbeh Behtaji, Jovid Eisai Length: 10min Where and when: Anytime on our online programme https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572611210249-TS3384BDORMFXBOQEYS0/LesMonstres-Affiche_v1%5BA4%5DHDefRVB.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List THE MONSTERS, 2019 (France) Petru, Lilou, Esther and Baisengour are between six and nine years old. And today it’s Halloween in a school in Paris. We take the monsters out of the closet, draw them, line by line, to try to tame them. Trapped on paper, others come to life for a day in costume, neither quite real nor quite imaginary. Can we have fun with what terrified us? Director: Camille Piazzo Length: 12min Where and when: Genesis Cinema, Friday 29 November, 6:30pm Screened with: Arab Blues https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572300619644-ZF74S7C3NKJGCHUUCVO0/gbposterRGB.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List GOLDEN BOAT, 2019 (Canada) Inside a derelict warehouse in the middle of a salt pan, people from around the world are waiting to be taken to a mysterious place that promises a better life. Director: Kristin Li and Clayton Beugeling Length: 13min Where and when: Genesis Cinema, Sunday 1 December, 4:30pm Screened with: Transit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572382555759-LGD9G91MX3P2J87DVSUN/Reine+Crocodile_7+lauriers.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List QUEEN CROCODILE, 2019 (Belgium) Rayna is a Bulgarian prostitute, working in Brussels’ Red Light District. One night, she shares a mystical and sexual moment with an African client, who dies shortly after. But this night will haunt her… Director: Charles Habib-Drouot Length: 29min Where and When: Upstairs at the Ritzy, Sunday 1 December, 2:00pm Screened with: EU shorts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572043855539-JDNIFU0X6EFZD7Y5AOKP/Lingua_Franca.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List LINGUA FRANCA, 2019 (USA) Olivia, an undocumented Filipino transwoman, works as a caregiver to Olga, an elderly Russian woman, in Brooklyn. When Olivia runs out of options to attain legal status in the US, she becomes romantically involved with Alex, Olga's adult grandson, in the pursuit of a marriage-based green card. Director: Isabel Sandoval Length: 1hr 29min Where and when: The Lexi, Tuesday 3 December, 6:30pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1571783154674-AVRS6JR36FD390XDICTG/huamn+machine+poster.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List HUMAN MACHINE, 2019 (UK) Human Machine provides a poetic look into how systematic inequality plays a role in the increase of automation, immigration and nationalism. Focusing on stories from those at the heart of these issues the film explores the connecting and dividing factors between the people on either side of our interlinking stories. Director: Sam Gladstone South Length: 20min Where and When: Upstairs at the Ritzy, Sunday 1 December, 2:00pm Screened with: EU shorts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1571593675326-HEEGONS794JZ5483RI9B/aga_affiche_web-534x754.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List ÁGA, 2018 (Bulgaria, Germany, France) In a yurt on the snow-covered fields of the North, Nanook and Sedna live following the traditions of their ancestors. But way of life starts changing - slowly and inevitably. Hunting becomes more and more difficult, the animals around them die from inexplicable deaths and the ice is melting earlier every year. Chena, who visits them regularly, is their only connection to the outside world – and to their daughter Ága, who has left the icy tundra a long time ago. Director: Milko Lazarov Length: 24min Where and When: SOAS, Thursday 28 November, 7:10pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572692275396-9V9D2ZW3LGNEFVWT6PEB/farming+poster.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List FARMING, 2018 (UK) Based on his own life story, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's ‘Farming’ charts the extraordinary journey of, Enitan, a young Nigerian boy fostered, or ‘farmed out’ in 1980s Essex. Caught between two worlds and belonging to neither, Enitan’s need for love and acceptance is exploited by the adults in his life, transforming a sweet boy into a teenage menace, and slowly drawing him into the very skinhead gang that abused him. Director: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Length: 1h 41min Where and when: The Lexi, Wednesday 4 December, 6:30pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572203767878-P7V8UT21P2KSNQTWIH4R/Terra%21+poster.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List TERRA!, 2019 (Italy) A film that suggests sailing to a land of dreams, unfulfilled hopes and promises. Director: Selene Citron and Luca Lunardi Length: 3min Where and when: Where and When: Genesis Cinema, Sunday 1 December, 3:50pm Screened with: The Flood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1571594656274-DO9ZLXOX43HX77PS6MCW/Border-Sotuh.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List BORDER SOUTH, 2019 (Guatemala, Mexico, USA) The filmmaker spent four years following migrant routes from southern Mexico to the US - Mexico border, where years of tightening controls have pushed people onto ever more precarious routes. The result is a close-up, nuanced and highly original view of the migrant experience, one fraught with risk and danger but also camaraderie, ingenuity and humour. Director: Raul O. Paz Pastrana Length: 1h 28min Where and When: SOAS, Monday 2 December, 7.00pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572387134311-T5DXGWGF5VC3R8E7K0NG/Scirocco_Poster_1920py.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List SCIROCCO, 2019 (Tunisia) Based on the findings of investigative research in Tunis, the film portrays the story of one, to show the impact of deportation policies on migrants crossing the Mediterranean in search for a better life. Director: Hannah Kirmes-Daly, Leonard Ermel, David L. Suber Length: 5min Where and when: Genesis Cinema, Friday 29 November, 6:30pm Screened with: Arab Blues https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1571594835971-UI95EU20TYX9UOXQMVCY/anbessa.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List ANBESSA, 2019 (Ethiopia) Ten year old Asalif and his mother have been displaced from their farmland on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by the construction of condominiums. Asalif uses his most fantastic and powerful persona to stand up to his country’s dream of “progress”. But finally he must find his strength as a boy, and shed his persona, in order to deal with the tides of change and violence that are usurping in his community, his country, and his own identity. Director: Mo Scarpelli Length: 1h 25min Where and When: Curzon Bloomsbury, Wednesday 4 December, 6:30pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572043537880-ISQD7TZOH1ASG7PZVEMS/congo+calling+poster.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List CONGO CALLING, 2019 (DR Congo, Germany, Belgium) In crisis-ridden Goma, eastern Congo, three Europeans are forced to question their roles as charity workers, researchers and members of a community. Deeply personal insights into coexistence and cooperation between Europe and Africa – and the question: how helpful is the help of the Global North? Director: Stephan Hilpert Length: 1h 30min Where and when: SOAS, Tuesday 3 December, 7:00pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1571594513598-ZN1BBOBQX8VYMG0TI44Z/bangla.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List BANGLA, 2019 (Italy) Phaim is a 20something guy living in Rome with his Bengali family. While is mum dreams of moving to London and his sister is planning to get married, Phaim falls in love with a girl from a posh Roman family. A romantic comedy where the protagonist has to navigate multiple identities and make choices about the kind of person he wants to be. Director: Phaim Bhuiyan Length: 1h 24min Where and When: Genesis Cinema, Sunday 1 December, 6:30pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1571594219530-0HXDJJE0U0AIVIN93RAC/the+farewell.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List THE FAREWELL, 2019 (USA, China) Billi is a young woman living in New York who moved to America from China with her parents when she was a child. Her family returns to China under the guise of a fake wedding to stealthily say goodbye to their beloved matriarch -- the only person that doesn't know she only has a few weeks to live. Director: Lulu Wang Length: 1h 40min Where and When: Genesis Cinema, Monday 2 December, 6:30pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1571782999937-AIJH1BWODGP6PQBU9REE/article+50+poster.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List ARTICLE 50, 2019 (UK) A dark comedy that explores how a very "Hard Brexit" indeed could affect personal relationships in the not too distant future. Director: Marcus J. Richardson Length: 11min Where and When: Upstairs at the Ritzy, Sunday 1 December, 2:00pm Screened with: EU shorts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1571782576039-QFXBHGSMXKA5QZ69YNSN/The+Dry+Valley_poster.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List THE DRY VALLEY, 2019 (Romania) A portrait of a Romanian village and its inhabitants. For the Roma of Valea Seaca, Northern Europe has become a second home. Many travel regularly across Europe to earn money for their families at home, often through begging or street work. Two Norwegian filmmakers embark on a journey through the village in search for traces of Scandinavia. An unexpected and poetic portrayal of the effects of migration on those who leave and those who stay behind. Director: Johanne Sandvik Length: 29min Where and When: Upstairs at the Ritzy, Sunday 1 December, 2:00pm Screened with: EU shorts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572043432173-BB9T8O8IN5UHUILRGV5E/midnight+traveler.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List MIDNIGHT TRAVELLER, 2019 (Afghanistan, Serbia, Hungary, Germany) When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters. Entirely filmed using just two mobile phone, the film captures the uncertain journey that over the course of three years takes the family from Tajikistan to Europe. In his film Fazili poetically shows firsthand the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum and the love shared between a family on the run. Director: Hassan Fazili Length: 1h 30min Where and When: Genesis Cinema, Tuesday 3 December, 6:30pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1574064340687-B24OSC0GHPK6YR063N0O/34efbf93d4-poster.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List PRACTICAL DREAMS, 2019 (UAE) ‘Practical Dreams’ is an experimental documentary mosaic which showcases and at the same time calls for a reevaluation of one’s own life choices. Through contemplative voice over, long landscape shots of Dubai, and the unyielding stares of its residents, the piece allows its viewers into the world of UAE-based architect, and expat, Antony, while at the same time giving space for his individual, introspective journey for the duration of the film. Director: Yulia Piskuliyska Length: 10min Where and when: Anytime on our online programme https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1571781965142-WPH7LXTIMTR0XJIMXZUQ/poster.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List BOY AND THE WORLD, 2013 (Brazil) One boy lives a life of quiet wonder, exploring all that the countryside has to offer. But his cozy life is shattered when his father leaves for the city, prompting him to embark on a quest to reunite his family. The young boy’s journey unfolds like a tapestry, the animation taking on greater complexity and variety as his small world expands. This stunningly animated film depicts a clash between village and city, hand crafted and mechanised, rich and poor - and throughout the tumult, the heart and soul of the people beats on as a song. For children ages 5 and up Director: Ale Abreu Length: 1h 20min Where and When: Upstairs at the Ritzy, Sunday 1 December, 12:00 noon Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1571594348061-FK5Z5TYXYGHUR7AUREHF/the+flood.jpg LMFF 2019 Film List THE FLOOD, 2019 (UK) Wendy, a hardened ‘Home Office’ caseworker, is offered a high-profile asylum case based on her ability to quickly and clinically reject applicants. Through her interview, she must uncover whether Haile is lying and has a more sinister reason for seeking asylum. We follow Haile on his perilous 5,000km journey over oceans, across borders, and amidst the flurry of the Calais Jungle to seek safety in the UK. Director: Anthony Woodley Length: 1h 39min Where and When: Genesis Cinema, Sunday 1 December, 3:50pm Tickets here https://www.migrationcollective.com/lmff-2019-programme daily 0.75 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572561047115-SW1CQNT2CD3RWA568UKE/the%2Bfarewell%2B2.jpg LMFF 2019 Programme - The Farewell + Q&A Billi, a young woman living in New York who moved to America from China with her parents when she was a child. Her family returns to China under the guise of a fake wedding to stealthily say goodbye to their beloved matriarch -- the only person that doesn't know she only has a few weeks to live. Monday 2 December, 6.30pm at Genesis Cinema Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572561267669-BN2I572LWQWI3CNT7I97/midnight+traveler+still+2.png LMFF 2019 Programme - Midnight Traveler + Q&A When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters. Entirely filmed using just two mobile phone, the film captures the uncertain journey that over the course of three years takes the family from Tajikistan to Europe. In his film Fazili shows firsthand the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum and the love shared between a family on the run. Tuesday 3 December, 6.30pm at Genesis Cinema - Q&A with: Almir Koldzic is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Counterpoints Arts, whose aim is to support and produce the arts by and about migrants and refugees. Anna Vallianatou is a lawyer active in the field of asylum and migration. Before joining the AIRE Centre in London, a legal charity specialising in the protection of individual rights -- espacially those of refugees and migrants, she has worked for years as an attorney in Belgium and in her country of origin, Greece. Alexandra Chen is a child protection and mental health specialist from Hong Kong working with refugees in conflict and post-conflict zones. Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572560699577-IYX48FNKKDBLGGHWFGGI/anbessa+still+1.jpg LMFF 2019 Programme - Anbessa + Q&A Ten year old Asalif and his mother have been displaced from their farmland on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by the construction of condominiums. Asalif uses his most fantastic and most powerful persona to stand up to his country’s dream of “progress”. But finally he must find his strength as a boy, and shed his persona, in order to deal with the tides of change and violence that are usurping in his community, his country, and his own identity. This film is presented in collaboration with Bertha DocHouse Wednesday 4 December, 6.30pm at Curzon Bloomsbury - Q&A with: Professor Laura Hammond is is an anthropologist who focuses on food security, conflict, forced migration and diasporas particularly in Ethiopia and Somalia/Somaliland. Professor Loretta Lees is an urban geographer and international expert on gentrification. Javie Huxley (@javhux) is a British-Chilean illustrator based in London, also a campaigner and trustee for Save Latin Village. Javie's main focus is on editorial illustration for magazines where she uses art as advocacy, to explore themes such as identity, race and social justice. Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572561535015-YBZUX4327Q45SIM78PAJ/the%2Bscorpios.jpg LMFF 2019 Programme - Music & Movement: The Scorpios A night to boogie and to network! Hailing from Central Sudan and now based in London after fleeing the fundamentalist takeover in that region, the Scorpios meld Arabic rhythms and guitar chops (and a kind of swooning cyclical ecstasy) with a raw Eastern funk feel, properly dismantling cultural barriers in pursuit of a unifying rhythmic bliss. Heavy bass, synths, horns and percussions drive through traditional Sudanese forms to create a sound that owes as much to Detroit as it do to Khartoum. They will be followed by DJ Mo’min Swaitat, who will be spinning some vintage vinyls from across Egypt, Syria, Palestine and North Africa. Saturday 30 November, 8:30pm at Upstairs at the Ritzy Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572561172531-973H4TBSWEX113D2GE20/congo+calling+2.jpeg LMFF 2019 Programme - Congo Calling + Q&A In crisis-ridden Goma, in eastern Congo, three Europeans are forced to question their roles as charity workers, researchers and members of a community. Deeply personal insights into coexistence and cooperation between Europe and Africa – and the question: how helpful is the help of the Global North? Tuesday 3 December, 7:00pm at SOAS (Khailili Lecture Theatre) - Q&A with: Stephan Hilpert is the director of Congo Calling. He is film director based in Berlin/Germany and London/UK and he previously did a PhD thesis on film at the University of Cambridge. Alex Knott is a Co-director of Omprakash - an organisation promoting ethical global engagement. Dr Tania Kaiser is a Senior Lecturer in Forced Migration Studies at SOAS where she focuses on protracted refugee situations, violence, conflict, humanitarian protection and assistance, and film. Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572560746827-1SW232E2VAH2S6T7UJ8K/farming_0hero.jpg LMFF 2019 Programme - Farming + Q&A Based on his own life story, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's ‘Farming’ charts the extraordinary journey of Enitan, a young Nigerian boy fostered, or ‘farmed out’ in 1980s Essex. Caught between two worlds and belonging to neither, Enitan’s need for love and acceptance is exploited by the adults in his life, transforming a sweet boy into a teenage menace, allowing him to be drawn into the very skinhead gang that abused him. Wednesday 4 December, 6.20pm at The Lexi Cinema - Q&A with: Kunle Olulode Director at BME charity Voice4Change England Pavan Bivigou is a writer from London. Her writing has been featured in Sight and Sound Magazine, This Recording, The New Inquiry and more. Omar Khan is Runnymede’s Director, and has spoken widely in the UK and internationally on race equality. Anuradha Henriques is editor-in-chief for Skin Deep, a creative powerhouse redefining culture, amplifying voices of colour through discussions of race, politics and activism Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572560090401-M7R41GE0S3IQPMHD8G8P/transit.jpg LMFF 2019 Programme - Transit + Golden Boat Transit (feature) In today’s France, Germans are hunted by the police and brutally arrested. Georg manages to flee Paris, and to secure an escape to Mexico. While he is waiting for his time to leave, he is confined to the corridors of a small hotel, the consulates, cafés and bars that line the harbour. Everything changes when Georg falls in love with the mysterious Marie. A metaphysical mystery about identity - and a dream of something that happened long ago, or something yet to come… Golden Boat (short): Inside a derelict warehouse in the middle of a salt pan, people from around the world are waiting to be taken to a mysterious place that promises a better life. Saturday 30 November, 4.30pm at Genesis Cinema Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572560930343-WQROQNH5UY3HQFHGKFJP/chez+jolie+coiffure+.jpg LMFF 2019 Programme - Chez Jolie Coiffure Enter the Jolie Coiffure hair salon in the Matonge district of Brussels, where charismatic owner Sabine presides over customers' flirting, gossiping, and harrowing tales of immigration. And behind it all, despite having been in Belgium for almost a decade, Sabine herself is still awaiting a decision on her asylum claim. Monday 2 December, 6.15pm Upstairs at the Ritzy Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572693552436-TC7R1WF1W0PLP241VI4A/windows-of-displacment-stratford-circus-akeim-toussaint-buck.jpg LMFF 2019 Programme - Freedom of Movement (interactive theatre) An immersive exploration into the movement of people. Why do we move? How do we move? Where do we move to? Enter an experimental performance where collectively we will embark on a journey initiated by the changing world around us. Using sound and movement we will feel the push and pull from place to place as we try to find ‘home’. By Akeim Toussaint Buck Sunday 1 December, 5.00pm at Upstairs at the Ritzy Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572595872545-V3E92ZC3OXLC5RD4D52Z/arab-blues-3-web-ccarolebethuel.jpg LMFF 2019 Programme - Arab Blues + Scirocco + The Monsters Arab Blues (feature): After years abroad in Paris, Selma returns ‘home’ to Tunis to set up a psychoanalysis practice to help local citizens cope with the stress of the post-Arab Spring cultural and social changes taking place. Scirocco (short): Based on the findings of investigative research in Tunis, the film portrays the story of one, to show the impact of deportation policies on migrants crossing the Mediterranean in search for a better life. The Monsters (short): Petru, Lilou, Esther and Baisengour are between six and nine years old. And today it’s Halloween in a school in Paris. We take the monsters out of the closet, draw them, line by line, to try to tame them. Friday 29 November, 6.30pm at Genesis Cinema Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572558418678-4WLLYWD0RK9LWCEM13OM/aga+still+2.jpg LMFF 2019 Programme - London Migration Film Festival Opening Gala Aga is the story of an elderly couple living in the Russian tundra. Their daughter has left their yurt to go and work in a mine, and melting ice is threatening their survival. Join us for the Opening Gala of London Migration Film Festival 2019, and explore the impact that climate emergency and urbanisation have on traditional livelihoods in the Global South. A wine reception will be offered before the screening by the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies at SOAS. Q&A with: Bhavna Dave Senior Lecturer in Central Asian Politics at the Department of Politics and International Studies Minnie Rahman works for the Join Council for the Welfare of Immigrants and is a writer and campaigner specialising in migrant’s rights, climate change and social justice. Alessandra Sciarra business development manager at Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Network, responsible for their campaign, advocacy and research work. Thursday 28 November, 7.10pm at SOAS, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre. Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572594244668-HEPIIOMHKUDHS8AOCK7B/The+Dry+Valley_2.jpg LMFF 2019 Programme - Some short films about EU (film) Article 50 (short): A dark comedy that explores how a very "Hard Brexit" indeed could affect personal relationships in the not too distant future. Human Machine (short): A poetic look into how systematic inequality plays a role in the increase of automation, immigration and nationalism. Focusing on stories from those at the heart of these issues the film explores the connecting and dividing factors between the people on either side of our interlinking stories. Queen Crocodile (short): Rayna is a Bulgarian prostitute, working in Brussels’ Red Light District. One night, she shares a mystical and sexual moment with an African client, who dies shortly after. But this night will haunt her… The Dry Valley (short): A portrait of a Romanian village and its inhabitants. For the Roma of Valea Seaca, Northern Europe has become a second home. Many travel regularly across Europe to earn money for their families at home. Sunday 1 December, 2:00pm at Upstairs at the Ritzy Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572560578928-N1ZEIKZJCZ8J1Q0OAUA4/Bangla_1200x600_v1.jpg LMFF 2019 Programme - Bangla + Q&A Phaim is a 20something guy living in Rome with his Bengali family. While is mum dreams of moving to London and his sister is planning to get married, Phaim falls in love with a girl from a posh Roman family. A romantic comedy where the protagonist has to navigate multiple identities and make choices about the kind of person he wants to be. This event will be presented in collaboration with Cinema Italia UK Sunday 1 December, 6.30pm at Genesis Cinema Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572560657709-OCO9VG2ERTAVFHT5NL0H/boy+and+the+world+2.jpg LMFF 2019 Programme - Boy and the World (for children) One boy lives a life of quiet wonder, exploring all that the countryside has to offer. But his cozy life is shattered when his father leaves for the city, prompting him to embark on a quest to reunite his family. The young boy’s journey unfolds like a tapestry, the animation taking on greater complexity and variety as his small world expands. This stunningly animated film depicts a clash between village and city, hand crafted and mechanised, rich and poor - and throughout the tumult, the heart and soul of the people beats on as a song. Suitable for children ages 5 and up Sunday 1 December, 12:00(noon) at Upstairs at the Ritzy Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1573317921063-FR8P6Z9O49MSK8Y0RZ1K/leaflet+lmff+2019+2.jpg LMFF 2019 Programme https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572596829561-7B373L4IAWI5KM4UC0WR/The_Flood_6.jpg LMFF 2019 Programme - The Flood + Rosso + Terra The Flood (feature): Wendy, a hardened ‘Home Office’ caseworker, is offered a high-profile asylum case based on her ability to quickly and clinically reject applicants. Through her interview, she must uncover whether Haile is lying and has a more sinister reason for seeking asylum. We follow Haile on his perilous 5,000km journey over oceans, across borders, and amidst the flurry of the Calais Jungle to seek safety in the UK. Rosso (short): Clemente is an old Sicilian fisherman who goes on working in spite of his late age. His life is disrupted the day he finds a young refugee’s dead body stuck in the fishnets. Terra (short): A film that suggests sailing to a land of dreams, unfulfilled hopes and promises. Sunday 1 December, 3.50pm at Genesis Cinema Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572560861111-ZTHZILNYSFCWTOWCGY4E/BORDER_SOUTH.jpg LMFF 2019 Programme - Border South + Q&A The filmmaker spent four years following migrant routes from southern Mexico to the US - Mexico border, where years of tightening controls have pushed people onto ever more precarious routes. The result is a close-up, nuanced and highly original view of the migrant experience, one fraught with risk and danger but also camaraderie, ingenuity and humour. Monday 2 December, 7:00pm at SOAS (Khailili Lecture Theatre) - Q&A with: Dr Paolo Novak is a Lecture in Development Studies at SOAS specialising in the conceptual and contextual relation between borders, migration and development. Much of his work focuses on the contested geographies produced by such relations and the processes of legal and institutional change associated with them. Dr Alejandra Díaz De León is a Research Officer in the Sociology Department for the project Human Rights, Human Remains: Forensic Humanitarianism and the Politics of the Grave at LSE. She previously worked with Jason De León and the Undocumented Migration Project. Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1c1bec58-174a-44eb-b647-ddb627889e26/WhatsApp+Image+2024-10-26+at+15.03.18.jpg LMFF 2019 Programme - Panel/discussion: Media and migrant decision-making Almost every day people in the global North are able to read about migration tragedies: from deaths on route, to the discrimination faced even once the destination is reached. But what role does, could and should the media have in influencing people’s decisions about whether to migrate? Some organisations are starting to focus on showing prospective migrants the ‘realities’ of migration - in which the journey is sometimes more dangerous then what is being fled. But how powerful is the media in shaping decision-making? Whose interests are being protected by these messages? And what distinguishes openly acknowledging the risks and dangers of migration from deterrence? Who could make media that strikes the right balance? And what might such a balance look like? At this interactive panel we will explore these and many other questions with a varied group of experts with both lived and professional experience. Saturday, 30 November, 12:00(noon) at Upstairs at the Ritzy - panelists include: Dr Janroj Yilmaz Keles is a Senior Research Fellow in Politics at Middlesex University Law School and a Visiting Fellow at London School of Economics (LSE), researching on migration, diasporas and international relations, social movements and media, and political communication. Pam Saengathit is an activist and political refugee from Thailand who served as an ambassador for Refugee Week (UK) and works as a campaign volunteer officer at Student Action for Refugees (STAR). Abby Meadows was the coordinator for Refugee Info Bus in Northern France. She is a researcher for Refugee Rights Europe. She has written about migration for Novara Media and in an academic capacity. Next year she will lecture at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine on global politics, with a focus on the contemporary refugee crisis in Europe and her specialist subject, New Humanitarianism. Daniel Trilling is a London-based journalist and author. His new book 'Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe' is based on five years of reporting on people who come to Europe in search of asylum. Rebecca Gang is the Protection Advisor at Signpost and Senior Technical Advisor at International Rescue Committee. Rebecca has worked in numerous roles focussing on the the rule of law and refugee protection in Afghanistan, Uganda, Pakistan and the USA. Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572560358862-XB4AZ2WHWHO81OBQCPWI/p10-schilling-ramenshoprev-a-20190314.jpg LMFF 2019 Programme - Ramen Shop Ramen Shop (feature): Masato, a young ramen chef, leaves his hometown in Japan to embark on a culinary journey to Singapore to find out the truth about his past. And in doing so he uncovers a lot more than family secrets and delicious recipes. Lord Falafel (short): This is Muhammad Alhussein's story. A story about what matters most in life: freedom, family, finding a new home - and food. Saturday 30 November, 7:00pm at Genesis Cinema Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1572590653725-DJ6J3GUPIZEZ5PLMAYJC/lingua-franca-movie-olivia.jpg LMFF 2019 Programme - Lingua Franca + Q&A Olivia, an undocumented Filipino transwoman, works as a caregiver to Olga, an elderly Russian woman, in Brooklyn. When Olivia runs out of options to attain legal status in the US, she becomes romantically involved with Alex, Olga's adult grandson, in the pursuit of a marriage-based green card. Tuesday 3 December, 6.30 at The Lexi Cinema - Q&A with: Sophie Chamas Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS Raphaella O’Hara is a transwoman originally from Brazil living in Birmingham. She is seeking asylum in the UK and has been living here for the past 5 years. Siobhan McGuirk is a postdoctoral researcher in Anthropology at Goldsmiths University of London. Her research focuses on gender and sexuality, migration, NGOs and state power. Claire Fletcher currently works as of the asylum support workers at UK Lesbian & Gay Immigration Group. 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Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1625164342259-XNENAAY1CME336PTGQLH/20+years+now+2.jpg Online programme 2021 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1623919428925-2ELXPDGER7IW4AQ92K0T/Screen+Shot+2021-06-17+at+09.41.23.png Online programme 2021 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.migrationcollective.com/lmff-2021-programme daily 0.75 2021-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1621786038490-YLVP0SB3Y7Y7GGEMI5XT/el+viaje+espacial+3.jpg lmff 2021 programme - june - Space Journey (El Viaje Espacial) A tour across Chile's diverse scenarios through the observation of bus stops and their passenger's conversations. The desert, cities, ocean and snowy peaks are the settings for this mosaic of day-to-day situations where humor, drama, and absurdity are combined. A film that delves into the conflicts of a diverse and unequal country colliding with the desires of the newly arrived immigrants. Genesis Cinema, Saturday 19 June 4:10pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1621785417866-EWAXA4UJIOTAGFK97OMY/jaguar.jpg lmff 2021 programme - june - Jaguar + Q&A Niger, 1960s. Three friends leave their village for the Gold Coast (Ghana), to find their fortunes. Narrated by the men themselves several years after their journey as they re-watch the footage, this is a feel-good film about personal growth and the universality of migration. The protagonists of this ethnography touch on important themes - such as colonialism, exploitation, borders and personal growth through movement - in a playful way. Genesis Cinema, Saturday 19 June 6pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1622457204814-LS6ZLC2KYGGW3FPWXJQE/city+of+lost+children.jpg lmff 2021 programme - june - A dystopian present? The state of UK immigration system * Screening and panel discussion * City of Lost Children (25mins) directed by Misha Vertkin A near-future dystopia set in a refugee camp for kids. Under the ‘Duty of Care’ Act, any unaccompanied minor found entering the UK illegally is held in a detention camp until age 18, when they will be deported to their country of origin. We follow 11-year old Dami and Azra, as they navigate the chaos of the camp, desperately trying to find Dami a home before Azra is deported the next day. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion of experts on the UK’s current immigration system. Bringing in their knowledge of law, policy, advocacy, and the practical realities of what it means to be an immigrant or forced migrant in the UK today, the panelists will consider such questions as: What is it like to navigate the UK immigration system? How realistic is the premise of City of Lost Children? And what can we do to work towards fairer, more humane immigration processes? Online Wednesday, 23 June 6pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1621785567300-1GUDIGQOLY7795YBSZBT/Chance_2.jpg lmff 2021 programme - june - Chance + Q&A Four young men from Sudan are sitting on the back of a lorry that, they hope, will take them to the UK. As they wait for the lorry to leave, they talk about everything from the practicalities of journeying to the UK from Sudan, to what drove them to leave and their hopes for the future, while they reflect on a system that excludes them from a dignified life. An adaptation from theatrical improvisation, in this docu-fiction the thoughts and hopes of people often demonised by the current rhetoric on migration take centre stage. Genesis Cinema, Sunday 20 June 3:30pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1622467959833-4OZ4N4Z7U4GR1F7ZX6ZX/poster+compilation.jpg lmff 2021 programme - june - Migration on demand: The impact of streaming on migration cinema * Panel discussion * Once a marginalised niche within cinema, films about migration are now quite literally moving into the mainstream, with streaming platforms from Netflix to MUBI featuring films that put the immigrant and refugee at the heart of the story. And in the era of Covid-19, streaming has never been more popular. But what is the effect of this on viewers? What kind of stories are being told and whose voices are being platformed? And is there potential for this mainstreaming to truly change how the public thinks about migration? Our exciting panel of content curators, academics, and filmmakers will consider these questions and many more. Online Tuesday, 22 June 6pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1621785300052-4XQOPSA08YXHJRXUZ6R7/los-lobos-movie-review-2020.jpg lmff 2021 programme - june - The Wolves (Los Lobos) + Q&A Lucía just moved to the US with her two sons, Max and Leo. While Lucía struggles to make a living in spite of working long hours, the two brothers spend their days in their sparsely furnished one-room flat. The walls of the room, which they are forbidden to leave, become a projection screen for imaginative adventures and open a window on their new life. This film draws on universal themes of parenthood, loneliness and having to adapt to unforeseen circumstances - and exposes the immobility and the feeling of being neither here nor there at the heart of so many experiences of migration. Genesis Cinema, Thursday 17 June 6:20pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1621785776497-KLAZYHO2SK7PMJ8PWD9E/stateless+3.jpg lmff 2021 programme - june - Stateless (Apátrida) + Q&A 1973: Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army, based on anti-black hatred. 2013: the Dominican Republic stripped the citizenship of anyone with Haitian parents, retroactive to 1929 - rendering hundreds of thousands stateless, without rights and vulnerable to deportation from the country they call home. This is why human rights lawyer Rosa Iris - a Dominican of Haitian descent - mounts a grassroots campaign to fight for social justice. Both context-specific and disarmingly universal, this nuanced film explores the fraught relationship between two countries sharing the same island, the rhetoric behind the political decision to render people stateless, and the demonisation of those who stand up against it. Genesis Cinema, Friday 18 June 6:20pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1621785643401-JG1BV7HKK5QE0W1ADVEL/el-father_05-h2020.jpg lmff 2021 programme - june - El Father Plays Himself * UK premiere * Filmmaker Jorge Thielen Armand returns to Venezuela from Canada, where he has lived since he was 15. He decides to shoot a film about his father’s colourful life in the Amazon, in which his father stars as himself. In this meta-documentary that follows the filmmaker through the shooting, the gregarious, alcoholic father is given an opportunity to rebuild a relationship with his son after years of living apart, while the son invites his father to make amends and forces him to face tough truths. A film, in turns searing and intimate, that considers absence, parenthood, addiction, and how relationships form and change when families are separated. 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The state of UK immigration system * Screening and panel discussion * City of Lost Children (25mins) directed by Misha Vertkin A near-future dystopia set in a refugee camp for kids. Under the ‘Duty of Care’ Act, any unaccompanied minor found entering the UK illegally is held in a detention camp until age 18, when they will be deported to their country of origin. We follow 11-year old Dami and Azra, as they navigate the chaos of the camp, desperately trying to find Dami a home before Azra is deported the next day. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion of experts on the UK’s current immigration system. Bringing in their knowledge of law, policy, advocacy, and the practical realities of what it means to be an immigrant or forced migrant in the UK today, the panelists will consider such questions as: What is it like to navigate the UK immigration system? How realistic is the premise of City of Lost Children? And what can we do to work towards fairer, more humane immigration processes? Online Wednesday, 23 June 6pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1621785567300-1GUDIGQOLY7795YBSZBT/Chance_2.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2021 - Chance + Q&A Screened with short film 296… Four young men from Sudan are sitting on the back of a lorry that, they hope, will take them to the UK. As they wait for the lorry to leave, they talk about everything from the practicalities of journeying to the UK from Sudan, to what drove them to leave and their hopes for the future, while they reflect on a system that excludes them from a dignified life. An improvisation in front of the camera, in this docu-fiction the thoughts and hopes of people often demonised by the current rhetoric on migration take centre stage. Genesis Cinema, Sunday 20 June 3:30pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1623608759037-I5J8SVFSB7E36D5OEX86/Screen+Shot+2021-06-13+at+19.25.09.png London Migration Film Festival 2021 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1621785643401-JG1BV7HKK5QE0W1ADVEL/el-father_05-h2020.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2021 - El Father Plays Himself * UK premiere * Screened with short film Hedgehog Filmmaker Jorge Thielen Armand returns to Venezuela from Canada, where he has lived since he was 15. He decides to shoot a film about his father’s colourful life in the Amazon, in which his father stars as himself. In this meta-documentary that follows the filmmaker through the shooting, the gregarious, alcoholic father is given an opportunity to rebuild a relationship with his son after years of living apart, while the son invites his father to make amends and forces him to face tough truths. A film, in turns searing and intimate, that considers absence, parenthood, addiction, and how relationships form and change when families are separated. Genesis Cinema, Sunday 20 June 6pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1621785300052-4XQOPSA08YXHJRXUZ6R7/los-lobos-movie-review-2020.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2021 - The Wolves (Los Lobos) + Q&A Lucía just moved to the US with her two sons, Max and Leo. While Lucía struggles to make a living in spite of working long hours, the two brothers spend their days in their sparsely furnished one-room flat. The walls of the room, which they are forbidden to leave, become a projection screen for imaginative adventures and open a window on their new life. This film draws on universal themes of parenthood, loneliness and having to adapt to unforeseen circumstances - and exposes the immobility and the feeling of being neither here nor there at the heart of so many experiences of migration. Genesis Cinema, Thursday 17 June 6:20pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1621785417866-EWAXA4UJIOTAGFK97OMY/jaguar.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2021 - Jaguar + Q&A Niger, 1960s. Three friends leave their village for the Gold Coast (Ghana), to find their fortunes. Narrated by the men themselves several years after their journey as they re-watch the footage, this is a feel-good film about personal growth and the universality of migration. The protagonists of this ethnography touch on important themes - such as colonialism, exploitation, borders and personal growth through movement - in a playful way. Genesis Cinema, Saturday 19 June 6pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1623921753045-ETR4616T7KNP8ZHLA504/Screen+Shot+2021-06-17+at+10.19.51.png London Migration Film Festival 2021 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1623608292691-ULA2P2E6ACJPUWRWDAH6/Screen+Shot+2021-06-13+at+19.17.33.png London Migration Film Festival 2021 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1621785776497-KLAZYHO2SK7PMJ8PWD9E/stateless+3.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2021 - Stateless (Apátrida) + Q&A 1937: Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army, based on anti-black hatred. 2013: the Dominican Republic stripped the citizenship of anyone with Haitian parents, retroactive to 1929 - rendering hundreds of thousands stateless, without rights and vulnerable to deportation from the country they call home. This is why human rights lawyer Rosa Iris - a Dominican of Haitian descent - mounts a grassroots campaign to fight for social justice. Both context-specific and disarmingly universal, this nuanced film explores the fraught relationship between two countries sharing the same island, the rhetoric behind the political decision to render people stateless, and the demonisation of those who stand up against it. Genesis Cinema, Friday 18 June 6:20pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1621786038490-YLVP0SB3Y7Y7GGEMI5XT/el+viaje+espacial+3.jpg London Migration Film Festival 2021 - Space Journey (El Viaje Espacial) Screened with short film The Sleepers A tour across Chile's diverse scenarios through the observation of bus stops and their passenger's conversations. The desert, cities, ocean and snowy peaks are the settings for this mosaic of day-to-day situations where humor, drama, and absurdity are combined. A film that delves into the conflicts of a diverse and unequal country colliding with the desires of the newly arrived immigrants. Genesis Cinema, Saturday 19 June 4:10pm Tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1622492213017-QZ90WK0WXF1QDQZ0U3VN/WhatsApp+Image+2021-05-31+at+21.15.56.jpeg London Migration Film Festival 2021 https://www.migrationcollective.com/lmff-2021-programme-1 daily 0.75 2021-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1635707660262-5I9Z2C7OK6XC6P3ZRH6Y/whether+the+weather.jpeg lmff 2021 programme - nov/dec - Film: Whether the Weather is Fine + Q&A After a devastating typhoon in the Philippines, three characters must decide whether to stay home or escape to Manila and leave their pasts behind. A surreal story of climate migration as environmental catastrophy turns the world upside down. Dir: Carlo Francisco Manatad Runtime: 105mins SOAS (Khalili Lecture Theatre), Mon 29 November, 6:45pm. Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1635707631897-L03KX0R4GYNE5MHK8OZA/io+sto+bene.jpg lmff 2021 programme - nov/dec - Film: I am Well (Io Sto Bene) Antonio has spent most of his life in Luxemburg and away from Italy, his home country. Now in his old age, he crosses paths with Leo, a young Italian artist who is trying to make it abroad. The old man and the young woman's destinies mirror one other. Memories from the past are awoken and end up offering a more peaceful future to the both of them. Dir: Donato Rotunno Runtime: 100mins Genesis Cinema, Sun 28 November, 8pm. Tickets In Collaboration with Cinema Italia UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1635707849708-DRLSD2BDZU1F87YH13ZF/delphine%27s+prayers+1.jpeg lmff 2021 programme - nov/dec - Film: Delphine’s Prayers + Q&A Delphine is a young Cameroonian woman living in Belgium. Through a series of confessions from Delphine, a powerful portrait emerges of a generation of women lost to the dream of a better world in Europe. “A captivating, vital record of a life of hardship held together by Mbakam’s unfussy, sensitive direction and its subject’s charisma, disarming honesty and equal parts strength and vulnerability” (The Film Magazine) Dir: Rosine Mbakam Runtime: 91mins Genesis Cinema, Mon 29 November, 6:30pm. Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1635707976440-6JWD1Z3W7QIPJ6E9QYDK/Borderline_4SIAD_still038.jpg lmff 2021 programme - nov/dec - *Closing night film* Four Seasons in a Day + Q&A The border between the Republic of Ireland and the UK runs in the middle of a beautiful glacial fjord. The Carlingford Ferry crosses the Carlingford Lough on a daily basis, bringing people from one side to the other. Here we meet characters from North and South, with different points of view, making the journey through the magnificent, green Irish landscape. A film exploring identity and community on an isle divided by not one, but two borders: a physical one between the UK and Ireland, and psychological one between seemingly incompatible opinions on the role of the border. Opinions that might change when the personal surpasses the ideologic. A deceptively light-hearted examination of Brexit and its effects on a complex border. Dir: Annabel Verbeke Q&A with Calvin Po (designer, researcher, and architect in training), Cherry Smyth (poet, novelist, critic and curator), and Darran Anderson (writer, author of Inventory and Imaginary Cities) Bertha Dochouse, Wed 1 December, 6:20pm, Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/c7f11dd1-305d-4f26-a51b-c49a39178c8a/after-love+2.jpg lmff 2021 programme - nov/dec - Film: After Love Set in the port town of Dover, Mary Hussain suddenly finds herself a widow following the unexpected death of her husband. A day after the burial, she discovers he has a secret just twenty-one miles across the English Channel in Calais. “What can we ever really know about each other? The mystery of other people’s lives, the unbridgeable gulf between us all – even, or especially, between married couples – is the subject of this outstanding drama from first-time film-maker Aleem Khan. It is a gulf as dour as the Channel.” (The Guardian) Dir: Aleem Khan Runtime: 89mins Screened alongside short films: Your Hand Found Mine (3 mins; dir by Elham Ehsas) and Bidēśi Mahilā (4 mins; dir by Hussina Raja) Genesis Cinema, Sun 28 November, 3:30pm. Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1635707212645-MVD8LNMU4ZISL3DSQSWV/longtable.jpeg lmff 2021 programme - nov/dec - Workshop: ‘We are all migrants through time’ ‘We are all migrants through time’ writes Mohsin Hamid in his novel Exit West. In saying this he exposes an assumption at the heart of current rhetoric on migration: space takes precedent over time, and migration is talked about as physical movement from place to place. But what can we gain from thinking about migration in a wider sense, one that includes time and space? How have portrayals of migration changed over the years? How does displacement mirror the alienation between generations? And could it be said that migration is simply another form of change? We invite you to sit at our Long Table and take part in discussions with artists, people who move, archivists and academics to talk about the relationship between migration and time. Everyone is welcome to take a seat at the Long Table. Developed by Lois Weaver, the concept aims to break down hierarchies of ‘spectator’ and ‘expert’, inviting guests to come and go between table and audience. Upstairs at the Ritzy, Sat 27 November, 2pm. Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1635707341869-YES3T5BZDZ9YVT8B2K0X/Ahmadzia_WebLandscape.jpeg lmff 2021 programme - nov/dec - Workshop: Afghan Kite-making In Afghanistan kite fliers of all ages come together to display the beautiful kites they have made and sometimes fly them in competitions. At this family-friendly workshop participants will get an opportunity to make an Afghan kite of their own with Ahmadzia Bakhtyari, former resident artist at the Horniman Museum. All materials are provided and each attendee will bring home their very own completed kite. Mosaic Rooms, Sun 28 November, 1pm. Free event! RSVP here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1635707138057-J6QMOVJZK9K3IIOSDPOJ/lina+de+lima+3.jpeg lmff 2021 programme - nov/dec - Film: Lina from Lima + Q&A “Upending arthouse tropes with musical numbers and lashings of sex, this witty debut about a Peruvian domestic worker refuses to see its heroine as a victim” It's been 10 years since Lina left her home country of Peru to work in Chile as a housekeeper to a wealthy family. The job has provided Lina with sufficient earnings to live frugally and have enough left over to send money back home to her son Junior who has grown from a small child to an adolescent in her absence. Now, with Christmas just around the corner, Lina is finally preparing to return to Lima for a belated visit. The thing is, Junior seems more concerned about getting an authentic soccer jersey than reuniting with his mother. What's more, Lina's bank account is in danger of getting drained when her employer's newly installed pool is unexpectedly damaged under her watch. At once a delightful renovation of the musical comedy and a timely examination of the realities of migrant labour, the inventive debut fiction feature from Chilean director María Paz González tackles weighty themes with a light touch and a saucy sense of humour. Dir: María Paz González Runtime: 83mins Genesis Cinema, Fri 26 November, 6:35pm. Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/b837290e-4866-40c0-8c5b-ec294dee18c4/kadialy.jpg lmff 2021 programme - nov/dec - * Opening Night * The London Migration Film Festival will kick off its 6th annual edition with a night of music, celebration and connection! Headlining the night will be Kadialy Kouyate and his band. Kadialy is a singer songwriter inspired by the West African Griot repertoire. Born into the great line of Kouyate Griot in Southern Senegal, we hope you appreciate Kadialy’s mesmerising kora playing and singing style as much as we do! Upstairs at the Ritzy, Thu 25 November from 7pm. Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1635707939861-WZ2TFTVROEXAT9T1HV96/PurpleSea_Still_04.jpg lmff 2021 programme - nov/dec - Film: Purple Sea + Q&A “I see everything,” she says as if it was a curse. Brilliant sunshine, clear blue skies. The sea is calm, framed by a piece of railing. A peaceful moment if it weren’t for the fact that the sea is standing upright, vertical, like a waterfall. Her boat sank somewhere between Turkey and Greece. A rush of images, twirling, upside down, jolting. People in the boat, in the water, screams, life jackets, emergency whistles. Even time’s flow comes to a halt, contracting into the brutal present. She is filming and speaking. To beat being tired, being cold, the fact that help isn’t coming. To beat dying, just for something to remain. This essential film from Syrian director Amel Alzakout charts the sinking of her own boat using footage from a waterproof camera. A striking and provocative documentary that confronts viewers with questions of the ethics of documentary filmmaking - and watching. Dir: Amel Alzakout, Khaled Abdulwahed Runtime: 67mins Q&A with Alexandra Chen (a child protection and mental health specialist with Syrian refugees in Greece, Lebanon and Jordan) and Dr Federica Mazzara (Reader in Cultural Studies at University of Westminster) Bertha Dochouse, Tue 30 November, 6:20pm, Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1635707179179-NW0G6VCOL27DYYEFQM20/los+lobos+%281%29.jpg lmff 2021 programme - nov/dec - Film: The Wolves (Los Lobos) Lucía just moved to the US with her two sons, Max and Leo. While Lucía struggles to make a living in spite of working long hours, the two brothers spend their days in their sparsely furnished one-room flat. The walls of the room, which they are forbidden to leave, become a projection screen for imaginative adventures and open a window on their new life. The Wolves is a film that draws on universal themes of parenthood, loneliness and having to adapt to unforeseen circumstances – and exposes the immobility and the feeling of being neither here nor there at the heart of so many experiences of migration. Dir: Samuel Kishi Leopo Runtime: 95mins Screened alongside short film Two Nights and Three Days (20 mins; dir by Tomás Fernández Vértiz). The Lexi Cinema, Fri 26 November, 6pm. Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1635707756729-OL2RTWRWUG3VVR8P5OI1/Still2.jpg lmff 2021 programme - nov/dec - Shorts: A Journey SOLD OUT A Horse Has More Blood Than a Human (dir: Abolfazl Talooni): An elderly couple leave Tehran and return to their idyllic home town on the Turkish border, but their dreams of quiet retirement are shattered by the realisation that their town has become a smuggling gateway out of Iran. Hevi (dir: Mohammad Shaikho): Hévi and Walat, a young Kurdish refugee couple have arranged to meet a human smuggler to cross an undefined border to a place of freedom. Frontier (Hranice) (dir: Damián Vondrášek): During a roundup of asylum seekers in the Czech border area, an underage boy escapes. The commander tries to deal with the situation according to the rules but in the process comes into conflict with his own conscience. A Year in Exile (dir: Malaz Usta): An immigrant’s first year in a metropolitan city outside his small country. Through a collection of moving images and sounds we see what he faces, the pictures that he sees, the crowded thoughts in his head, and the state of emotional shock that he lives throughout the year. Upstairs at the Ritzy, Sat 27 November, 4:30pm. Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1635707454945-HU25P8FHA60ARW26BEOJ/revolution+.jpeg lmff 2021 programme - nov/dec - Film: Revolution from Afar + Q&A with director SOLD OUT In 2019, after months of protests across Sudan, the military removed thirty-year dictator Omar al-Bashir and cracked down in a violent fashion on the civilian sit-in outside its headquarters.The Internet was shut down, leaving those outside Sudan to voice a plea for peaceful transition to civilian government. An ocean away, Sudanese-American poets and musicians, whose families left Sudan for America in decades past, gather in major American cities to perform in support of the revolution. At the heart of the film is a conversation around identity, belonging, and the uncertain future of Sudan, from which they have been physically cut off. What happens when they can only watch from afar? Dir: Bentley Brown Runtime: 67mins Q&A with director Bentley Brown and musician Ramey Dawoud. Chaired by Dalia Al-Dujaili, arts & culture journalist currently at Azeema Mag. The Lexi Cinema, Sat 27 November, 6pm. Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1635707303150-WDRDKGG98I8XUVJSHNW2/surface.jpg lmff 2021 programme - nov/dec - Shorts: On Migration and Parenthood 652 miles = 0 (or the wonderful convenience of videocalling) (dir: Giulio Gobbetti): During a time of quarantine, global distances contract. The 652 miles separating the director’s London home from his grandmother in Italy are not any different than the distance between her and her neighbours. As most interpersonal relationships are brought into the online world, there is no better opportunity to teach her remotely how to do video-calls. On the Surface (dir: Fan Sissoko): As the woman enters the freezing water, she relives her traumatic pregnancy and postnatal depression. Soon her swimming eases. Being in the wild and facing her fears is helping her heal. Hedgehog (dir: Masha Novikova): Vera, a young shop stylist, hires her father as her assistant to prepare for a fancy boutique's grand opening. She fears that his casual nature won't fit with the boss's expectations and is torn between them. The King (dir: Maria Claudia Blanco): Li, an undocumented migrant in Paris, works as a professional queue-tailer. He does everything so that his daughter does not have to follow the same path of exploitation. Farewell Daddy (dir: Bianca Sescu): In a Romanian village, a family prepares a last meal before the father leaves for England. He invites a childhood friend, who will lend him money for his family while waiting for his first salary. Birds of Passage (dir: Lisa Meyer): Lorin’s family lives undocumented in Sweden and must suddenly move. They are taken to church, far away from Lorin’s friends in school. Lorin now needs to decide if she can accept the situation or try to find herself a way out of it. Of Memory and Debris (dir: Rodrigo Michelangeli): A glimpse into an unseen Venezuelan generation — the grandparents left behind by the largest exodus in Latin America's recent history. Upstairs at the Ritzy, Sun 28 November, 1pm. Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/50d5ad2f-b0d1-4f74-aed5-82bc58648847/FLEE_still_5_Amin_and_mother_copyright_FinalCutforReal%281%29.jpg lmff 2021 programme - nov/dec - Film: Flee + Q&A (*Preview screening*) London Migration Film Festival and The People’s Film Club present: Flee tells the story of Amin Nawabi. Amin’s childhood, as with many others like him, was interrupted in the late 80s as conflict forced him and his family to escape their home, finding their way to Moscow. The following years are then told in pieces: fearful encounters with corrupt Russian police, desperate attempts to smuggle the family bit by bit to Europe. Recounted mostly through animation and archive footage, he tells for the first time the story of his extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan. Flee shares a ‘remarkable refugee story told with heart and audacity’ (The Guardian). We will be taking over Genesis Bar with music, stalls and more all afternoon, followed by an introduction to the film. All funds raised will be donated to Care 4 Calais Dir: Jonas Poher Rasmussen Runtime: 90mins Q&A with Gulwai Passerlay (author, advocate, humanitarian and spokesperson), Syed Haleem Najibi (actor and activist), Dr Ayesha Ahmad (Senior lecturer in Global Health at St George's UoL), and Jamie Bell (public and immigration law solicitor at Duncan Lewis) Genesis Cinema, Sun 28 November, 5:40pm. Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/434a2432-175a-42c9-b4af-db0c7fbcc7bd/hostile+still.jpg lmff 2021 programme - nov/dec - Online event: Hostile + Q&A Join us for the online finale of London Migration Film Festival 2021 with a special online screening of Hostile, followed by a special Q&A Told through the stories of four participants from Black and Asian backgrounds, Hostile focuses on the impact of the evolving ‘hostile environment’ policies that target migrants. It explores how the lives of international students, members of the Windrush generation and ‘Highly-Skilled Migrants’ have been affected. Most importantly, it asks - of viewers, of the UK government - what does it mean to be British? What does it mean to be told you don’t belong? Director Sonita Gale seeks to hear these voices and inspire viewers to take action in order to create long-term change. This special online screening of Hostile will be followed by a Q&A with experts by experience, journalists, lawyers and more. Dir: Sonita Gale Online event, Book tickets here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1635707906646-IHAHFE1BU4QMIE3BLVRR/chance%2B3.jpg lmff 2021 programme - nov/dec - Film: Chance + Q&A Four young men from Sudan are sitting on the back of a lorry that, they hope, will take them to the UK. As they wait for the lorry to leave, they talk about everything from the practicalities of journeying to the UK from Sudan, to what drove them to leave and their hopes for the future, while they reflect on a system that excludes them from a dignified life. An improvisation in front of the camera, in this docu-fiction the thoughts and hopes of people often demonised by the current rhetoric on migration take centre stage. Dir: Effi Weiss and Amir Borenstein Runtime: 75mins Q&A with Samah Bushra (activist, playwrite and founder of Refugee Access) and Maria Stephens (advocacy manage at Refugee Action) Screened alongside short film Mesogeios (3 mins; dir: Marco Biotto) and A Monster Outside of Human Laws (14 min, dir: nnull) Genesis Cinema, Tue 30 November, 6:30pm. Tickets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1635707700305-13Z1DMQB3N31M6YK7R8V/Universality_Still_005.jpeg lmff 2021 programme - nov/dec - Film: Universality of it All A documentary that offers a crash course on the causes, effects and future of forced migration around the globe, as told through the eyes of one young filmmaker on the mission to educate himself. Absolutely essential viewing for anyone interested in learning about migration but unsure where to begin! Dir: Andres Bronniman Runtime: 90mins Screened alongside short film Riders, Uniting (4 mins; dir by Will Hecker, Elena Luque) Upstairs at the Ritzy, Sun 28 November, 3pm. Tickets https://www.migrationcollective.com/lmff-2021-film-list daily 0.75 2021-10-31 https://www.migrationcollective.com/lmff-online-program-2021 daily 0.75 2021-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1a6cd83a-39e2-4041-88da-3b1df0bd569d/prasha+still.jpg LMFF online programme - 2021 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/778cd0a9-5ab2-4909-9bc9-92ce5cc9b93d/hostile+still.jpg LMFF online programme - 2021 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/89b3d027-530a-4f3a-828f-51c1efa97103/jude+still+2.jpg LMFF online programme - 2021 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/01ab28a9-7d7e-43ff-ad8d-d90bdf1355ab/monster+outside+still.jpg LMFF online programme - 2021 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/084cd96e-6bd4-40a9-8c9b-e9d25edac9ec/como+el+viento+still.jpg LMFF online programme - 2021 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/de33f8f9-9889-41e5-9180-494fff716675/anywhere+but+here+still.jpg LMFF online programme - 2021 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/142f6fc8-b239-4383-ba8a-248f54ce00c5/away+still.jpg LMFF online programme - 2021 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/57892d44-045a-4bcf-b583-e920f3b235e6/La_Lucha_-_Still_7.jpg LMFF online programme - 2021 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/a13c6a23-b9e8-4551-a7f4-388fa19574ac/routes+still.jpg LMFF online programme - 2021 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/c5384618-7a91-4e8c-ad45-19c41fffb40c/The_Face_of_a_City_2.jpg LMFF online programme - 2021 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/87c3b3a7-cd13-42cc-84c7-2a325f5256de/Nanmin_still_3.jpg LMFF online programme - 2021 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.migrationcollective.com/berlin-alexanderplatz daily 0.75 2022-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/fcf94564-626a-49ed-82a8-9dfbf62677a0/berlin.jpg Berlin Alexanderplatz - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.migrationcollective.com/europa daily 0.75 2022-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/362a8eb0-8691-4c6f-9a67-994fb39cffee/europa.jpeg Europa - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.migrationcollective.com/get-involved daily 0.75 2022-04-02 https://www.migrationcollective.com/events-1 daily 0.75 2022-04-02 https://www.migrationcollective.com/lmff-past-editions daily 0.75 2022-04-02 https://www.migrationcollective.com/film-archive daily 0.75 2022-04-02 https://www.migrationcollective.com/past-events daily 0.75 2022-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1591208866317-BDJJ5PJ9DBQK1DMJEH16/girl+with+a+pearl.jpg past events - Migration & Diaspora Literature Festival In August 2019 we held our first Migration & Diaspora Literature Festival in London. Over the course of three days and six events, we explored how migration and diaspora are analysed and portrayed within developing literary genres, including fiction, spoken word, graphic novels, poetry and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1555931940198-UDAKVPRL823OR9IOMC1F/book+club.jpg past events - Migration & Diaspora Book Club Over the past few years a growing number of writers have focused on the experience of migrants and members of diasporas. Starting from July 2018, we have begun hosting regular book club gatherings to explore books such as The Lonely Londoners, Exit West, and many more. If you want to join the book club, have suggestions or just want to meet new people who share a passion for literature and/or migration click here and join our next gathering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1555932401043-Q0ZA55F5PDU0I1IC3U0T/migration+stories.jpeg past events - Migration Stories In February 2017 Migration Collective joined the national campaign #1daywithoutus to celebrate migration in all of its forms. In collaboration with Spark, we held a storytelling event where self-identifying migrants had the chance to tell their stories with their own words, offering the audience a fresh perspective on migration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1555932108901-RH2C0QKXBMAZY8T1ZL1H/lsff.jpg past events - LSFF 2019: At Home and not at Home On 20 Jan 2018, we partnered with with the London Short Film Festival to present a programme of short films tracing the self-authored black British presence on screen, from the early filmmakers of the Windrush generation and those to follow. Wrestling resources from an inimical industry, these works reclaim representation from a hegemony of white faces and the dominance of the white gaze, looking to postcolonial London, the realities of its racism and insularity of class, and the unhomeliness of the migrant experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1555932959148-OH2LOW3BQ4CWBIBPNMW9/lmff+2016.jpeg past events - London Migration Film Festival 2016 London Migration Film Festival was officially launched in November 2016, and it included eight films, three concerts, two panel discussions, one networking event and one kite-making workshop. To know more about the first edition of the festival, click here. We are currently working on the 2019 edition of the festival – keep an eye open on our website and on LMFF Facebook page to find out more about it! If you would like to submit a film please follow these instructions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1591209463973-DQ2AS01AX87O093ICRSW/beyond+borders+festival.jpg past events - Beyond Borders Festival: Eldorado For the first night of the three-day Beyond Borders festival, The People's Film Club & Migration Collective teamed up for an exclusive screening of Eldorado - a documentary which explores the journeys refugees take across the Mediterranean and the reception they receive upon arrival in Europe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1555933651156-XSNHQ1ZB5DCEMIYBPMCY/Screen+Shot+2019-04-22+at+12.46.50.png past events - London Migration Film Festival 2017 Following the success of the first London Migration Film Festival, with our second edition we decided to expand from Deptford into other parts of London, presenting a wider selection of films and events and attracting more than 1,500 people over the course of a week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1555932315760-EJTKJK5SLOPJ6PQUD0K6/living+library+.jpeg past events - Living Library Within Refugee Week 2017 we organised a two-day Living Library, hosted in the garden of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. For this project around 20 people with a refugee background or who work with refugees became 'books' and told their stories to small groups of 'readers', who had the chance to interact with, listen from and ask questions to real people, thus going beyond the stereotypical 'refugee crisis' headlines and media representation of refugees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/41015055-e5a7-4030-b568-c098910aa92a/berlin-alexanderplatz-film+poster.jpg past events - Berlin Alexanderplatz On 23 February in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, we held an online screening Berlin Alexanderplatz by director Burhan Qurbani, followed by a Q&A This award winning film is based on Alfred Döblin's modern classic from 1929. In this contemporary reimagination, the story does not begin in Berlin, but rather in the Mediterranean sea as Francis, a refugee from Guinea-Bissau, fights to take ownership of his destiny in Europe. The screening was followed by a Q&A with director Burhan Qurbani and Dr Myria Georgiou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1554657234581-70YND5TL0MNHULWVWMN8/T96A3208+2.jpg past events - London Migration Film Festival 2018 The third edition of London Migration Film Festival took place between 29 November - 5 December. Through more than 20 events, including film screenings, workshops, plays and panel discussions we brought together close to 2,000 people across London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/7c2f1230-32c2-4e1f-a5ff-a1d9e5d0267f/Europa+2.jpg past events - Europa On 28 March we screened Europa by director Haider Rashid at Genesis Cinema Europa follows Kamal, a young man fleeing Iraq to try to enter Europe. At the Turkish-Bulgarian border, local mercenaries are ruthlessly hunting down migrants. Alone in the forest, he has three days to escape. The screening was followed by a Q&A with: Dr Oula Kadhum, Daniele Bernabei, and Rosie Carter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1555932240999-HJSCTWN5LTMRNX9TXDVM/stories+untold.jpg past events - Stories Untold Stories Untold is a short-film series that spoke to 6 London based migrants from different social, political and economic backgrounds, who told us their story with their own words. We are aiming to share these stories far and wide, screening them in schools, businesses and both national and international festivals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1555933106983-MJ6MRZTMIGLAKEVTJJVG/a+common+step.jpeg past events - A Common Step A Common Step was the first event organised by Migration Collective in June 2016. Through spoken word, live music, an exhibition, and a short video it aimed to raise funds for and awareness of the work of L'Auberge des Migrants, a grassroots charity supporting migrants in Calais. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1591209317464-52P8RTZLH5X7FOONWQHQ/difference+festival+poster.jpg past events - Difference Festival: Voyeurism in Documentary Filmmaking on Migration We invite you to sit at our Long Table and take part in discussions with filmmakers, protagonists, curators and activists sharing their work and radical strategies to resist voyeurism in film-making on migration. Explore our positions as storytellers, curators and media consumers, think about the responsibilities of those who create visual narratives based on another’s experience and engage with some of those to whom these stories belong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1481934998120-FE1POVOHAWHWPEMKG7ID/15493718_10155052835271564_3991065161241044454_o.jpg past events https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1481934957464-I7W4DQOJZ18WS3N22BQF/me.png past events https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1547159835748-R1GYM66QV5JJZVXQ11WC/Sal.jpg past events https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1523544855319-DOQDG8CWPLROYKAJK5Q5/vc.jpg past events https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1527776193338-P3WY75B1KIZHZ2NEHW1J/MC.jpg past events https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1609435340282-SOZSME743ZQ3IPKO36DF/221-2015-08-13+12.25.50.jpg past events https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/18c88032-5e2a-4306-b0a4-f7dcd7afd817/trailer+still.jpg past events - London Migration Film Festival 2021 The London Migration Film Festival proudly held its fifth annual edition from 25 Nov - 1 Dec 2021. Across more than 20 events, including film screenings, workshops, online events and panel discussions we brought people together at six venues across London. If you would like to submit a film to the 2022 edition, then please follow these instructions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1649806952356-A19364I3HGDLLKT8UFHS/kokoroko%2Blmff.jpg past events https://www.migrationcollective.com/lmff-2022-online daily 0.75 2022-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/a8a29122-f83f-46b5-a1f5-42db1cb7dad2/lina+de+lima+.png lmff 2022 online - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.migrationcollective.com/partnerships daily 0.75 2025-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/73c4df80-8409-4a1b-9486-8d6fbd65723b/la+traversee.jpg partnerships - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/bb7e7896-bde1-4505-a61b-c61ccfaffb6a/warsha+still+2.jpg partnerships - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1599831358954-M0KKO2C8LBDPPXJMKF0H/aga+still+1.jpg partnerships - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.migrationcollective.com/press-pack daily 0.75 2023-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/e8247f97-1178-4590-9154-4fb196695953/Screen+Shot+2023-10-09+at+21.59.59.jpg press pack - Make it stand out Film: In The Rearview. Dir: Maciek Hamela https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/50d2db21-d66f-494a-bb7b-a9be73bd4cc9/Stone-Turtle-2-scaled.jpg press pack - Make it stand out Film: Stone Turtle. Dir: Woo Ming Jin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/5850d0ec-120e-4eb6-aef3-4030f2e42343/tape+still.jpg press pack - Make it stand out Film: Neverending. Dir: Tabz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/1697657393603-9S4TVQW74STL29670KJ5/Screen%2BShot%2B2023-10-18%2Bat%2B20.09.30.jpg press pack - Make it stand out Festival Poster Image: Apparitions by Rithika Marchant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58473f05f7e0abcf146ddba4/58da9c9f-c569-4120-8ae7-59f5156c8342/1380247_dirtydifficultdangerous1_208227_crop.jpg press pack - Make it stand out Film: Dirty Difficult Dangerous. 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