World Refugee Day: Streaming on Docuseek
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Honor World Refugee Day with Docuseek

In recognition of World Refugee Day on June 20, Docuseek presents a carefully curated selection of new releases. This selection showcases insightful portrayals of daily life in refugee camps, as well as the challenges and successes associated with refugee resettlement, and related stories of immigrants, refugees and "others" under threat. These films aim to transcend mere headlines, focusing on the human experience and resilience of refugees.

Films from The Docuseek Complete Collection 4th Edition include Ultimate Citzens, about an Iranian American public school counselor mentoring immigrant and refugee students; From Ground Zero, shortlisted for an Academy® Award; The 1957 Transcripts, about the Kfar Qasim massacre where 47 Palestinian civilians were killed by Israeli Border Police; 23 Foreigners — Our Brothers, which looks at the February 1944 execution of 23 Resistance fighters by a Nazi occupying firing squad outside of Paris and, after the executions, the Nazis highlighted many of the murdered fighters on a notorious red poster, labelling them as foreigners, communists, and Jews; and Where Can We Live In Peace?.

Highlights from The Pragda Complete Film Collection include Drowning Letters, Exiles, and Wilaya. From The GOOD DOCS Complete Collection, films include Baseball Behind Barbed Wire, Muhi: Generally Temporary, and Peabody®-winner Batata.

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After Spring

Syrian brothers Adel and Hadi Bakkour take to the streets of Rio de Janeiro to fight for democracy in the country where they found refuge. (Pragda STREAM)

Baseball Behind Barbed Wire

Stripped of their constitutional rights, 120,000 Japanese Americans were forced into desolate camps, surrounded by guard towers and barbed wire. Ironically it was the All-American pastime of baseball that saved their sanity. (GOOD DOCS)

Batata

This unparalleled Peabody®-winning film documents 10 years in the life of a singularly determined Syrian refugee woman. (GOOD DOCS)

Displaced

The painfully adverse process endured to become "legal" and was driven to share this story beyond the courtroom. (Collective Eye Films)

Drowning Letters

An urgent and necessary film to understand one of the most tragic chapters in contemporary history; the migratory crisis taking place across the Mediterranean Sea in search for European shores. (Pragda STREAM)

The Elephants and the Grass

Fleeing South Sudan's brutal civil war, Shamira Muhammed and her mother trek 100 miles to reach safety in a Ugandan refugee camp. The history of one of the deadliest conflicts since WWII is also presented. (EPF Media)

Exiles

Reveals the lives of three artists who fled the Spanish Civil War to reinvent themselves in Mexico, making an impact on art and culture. (Pragda STREAM)

Freedom Is a Big Word: After Guantanamo

After 13 years in Guantánamo, Muhammad starts a new life in Uruguay. He’ll get a home and welfare for two years, then be on his own. (Pragda STREAM)

From Ground Zero

Shortlisted for an Academy® Award, this collection of 22 short films gives a voice to 22 Gazan filmmakers to tell untold stories of the current war. (MPI Media)

Futbolistas 4 Life

A film about Oakland teens from immigrant families and the healing power of soccer. (GOOD DOCS)

Gaza Online

Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly’s 2020 short film follows the interactions with friends and family back home in Gaza while living in exile in Northern Norway, not being able to return. (First Hand Films)

Idomeni

Children in war: a different look at how families are torn apart in war, and reunite in peace. (First Hand Films)

In Between

Examining the legal and moral dimensions of migrant camps in the Canary Islands, including legislation, health care, and geopolitical factors. (Pragda STREAM)

ISIS, The Ghost Children

Never before have the children of criminals been punished for the crime of their parents: the children of French jihadists are a textbook case. (Cinétévé)

Life is Beautiful

IDFA Award for Best Directing, stuck in the arctic of Norway, filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly insists on telling heartfelt stories from his hometown Gaza. (MPI Media)

Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege

A filmed diary of the daily life in the biggest Palestinian refugee camp – Yarmouk, in Damascus, Syria and its besieged inhabitants, who decided to face bombing, displacement and hunger with rallying, study, music, love and joy. (Lightdox)

Long Distance Swimmer: Sara Mardini

When former pro swimmer Sara and her sister Yusra arrived in Germany from war-torn Syria they were Europe's most celebrated refugees. Now Sara is facing a 20-year prison sentence for volunteering with a Greek NGO, helping other refugees. (EPF Media)

Lucinda Urrusti. Painter

A portrait of Spanish painter Lucinda Urrusti, who was exiled to Mexico with her family in 1939 as refugees from the Spanish Civil War. (Pragda STREAM)

Muhi: Generally Temporary

A Palestinian boy who has a life-threatening immune disorder is caught in immigration limbo, which makes it impossible for him to leave the hospital. (GOOD DOCS)

My Worst Enemy

As an experiment, Mehran Tamadon asks exiled Iranians to interrogate him as if they were an agent of the Islamic Republic. A renowned actor with first-hand knowledge of such mistreatment takes up the challenge. (Icarus Films)

The 1957 Transcripts

Recently exposed classified documents related to the 1956 massacre in the Palestinian village of Kafr Qasim shed new light on today's societal relations between Israel and Palestine. (First Hand Films)

The Rohingyas: Trapped in Exile

Following massacres by the Burmese army in 2017, 740,000 Rohingya fled en masse to neighbouring Bangladesh, which confined them in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camp. (Collective Eye Films)

23 Foreigners — Our Brothers

An emotional follow up to Mosco Boucault’s 1983 documentary TERRORISTS IN RETIREMENT. (Icarus Films)

Ultimate Citizens

An extraordinary 65-year-old Iranian American public school counselor builds a world-class Ultimate Frisbee team from the immigrant and refugee students arriving at his inner-city public school in Seattle. (Bullfrog Films)

Where Can We Live In Peace?

The moving and inspirational story of the ABBA migrant shelter in Celaya, Mexico, where Pastor Ignacio helps thousands of migrants. (Bullfrog Films)

Wilaya

With unprecedented access to the Sahrawi community, this film provides a voice to this unrepresented group of refugees living in a Saharan refugee camp. (Pragda STREAM)

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