During the 1965 mass killings to eliminate the Indonesian Communist Party, the new regime banned scholars in the Soviet Union and China, forcing them into exile across Europe. This documentary follows those displaced individuals as they navigate the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Sweden, Germany, and Indonesia, reflecting on the traumatic events that uprooted their lives.

During the first days after the 1973 Chilean coup d’état, the political leadership of the Popular Un...
A film essay by Asher de Bentolila Tlalim, an Israeli filmmaker living in London, GALOOT ("Exile" in...

Dos Islas is a poetic story about old age, family and the bond between a granddaughter and a grandmo...

Amina, Sami and Jennyfer are high school students in the Paris suburbs, in 93. At the initiative of...
It follows Chilean writer Antonio Skármeta as he celebrates the end of the autocrats. Cheerful farew...

In a student dormitory, the boundaries between animate and inanimate spaces, identities, and the que...

Biodun is Nigerian. In this animated documentary, he tells the story of his journey on foot from Lag...

Three elders return to their homeland seventy years after being forced to leave it because of the Sp...

We encounter the controversial Croatian film director Lordan Zafranovic in voluntary exile in Prague...

A documentary about Finnish twin sisters, one of whom disappeared in Argentina in 1977.

Due to the measures taken by the government, students have fewer and fewer prospects for a meaningfu...

In the 1970s, Agustín Gómez Arcos rose to the top of French literature, while in his own country, Sp...

More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault i...
Documentary about the arduous early years of the Sahrawi cause (1977)
At the Munich Olympics of 1972, John Akii Bua, from the impoverished African country of Uganda, powe...