About
Who we are
Refuge in Films is a film festival produced by RefugeeYouth's young Leaders who originate from: Iran, Sierra Leone, Colombia, Somalia, Ethiopia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Uganda, Yemen, Burundi, Sudan, Rwanda, Palestine, Kosovo, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Senegal, Angola, Guinea, Mauritius, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Mexico, Cuba, Ireland, Ecuador, Colombia, France, Greece, and the UK.
This amazingly diverse group of people work together during the first 6 months of the year to curate this programme, make films, lead discussions, design the fashion parade, host creative work shops and produce the whole event.
Refuge in films 2010
The festival opens for the first time with a pedal powered drumming performance and African fashion parade! We also experimented for the first time and developed an exhibition combining art and photography! We had a lot of fun and have full house in all screenings! highlights of the festival include Ajami by Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani, District 9 by Neill Blomkamp and Last Train Home by Lixin Fan.
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In 2009, we had so much fun; we rolled the red carpet and young people from around the world presented films made them, an amazing photo exhibition and different performances. On the next two days of the festival we presented a great programme of films about refuge and displacement and participated on different visual creative workshops at delegates centre. Hightlights include: Sling Shots Hip Hop by Jackie Reem Salloum and persepolis by Marianne Satrappi
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A group of young people from Refuge Youth and New Generation took over the BFI for a week end of fun, film and celebration. This are some of the highlights:
Made in L.A. by Almudena Carracedo; the Beatrayal by Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath.
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Refuge in films 2007
The first Refuge in Films Festival was organized at the Thesally Community Centre in Lambeth, It was a great event produced by young people from Nueva Generacion. Our highlight films were: Sahara Marathon by Aitor Arregi & Jon Garaņo. And Ghosts from Nick Broomfield!
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