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Immigration & Refugees Collection

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Immigration & Refugees Collection presents powerful films that explore migration, displacement, and cultural identity. Language is a Love Story highlights the transformative power of language in immigrant communities, while Island of the Hungry Ghosts examines the impact of detention policies. Un Condor offers a deeply personal perspective on exile, and Reindeer in My Saami Heart sheds light on Indigenous displacement. Designed for libraries, schools, and universities, this collection fosters critical discussions on global migration and human resilience.

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1 h 29 mins
Miss Loiseau's class is unlike any other. Her adult students are recent immigrants: some of them refugees, most learning to read and write for the first time, all eager to study, find work, and raise their families in peace. Their stories of pain and hope converge in one big...
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1 h 30 mins
Elizabeth Liang's funny, sharp, and poignant one-woman show about growing up in the intersections of identity as a dual citizen of mixed heritage.
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1 h 10 mins
Inghilda Tapio is one of the last generation of Indigenous children born into a nomadic Saami reindeer herding family in the Arctic Circle, and is now an inspirational poet and performer.
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1 h 34 mins
While the yearly crab migration takes place and locals perform rituals for ghosts, a therapist works in Christmas Island's asylum seeker detention center.
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A poetic cine-essay about race and colonialism.
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1 h 22 mins
A former Vietnamese refugee takes his Israeli daughters home to Vietnam.
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1 h 21 mins
A daughter's search for her lost family stretches from Australia to Trinidad and WWII Germany. Rich with archival images, Su Goldfish's autobiographical documentary echoes through all those touched by forced migration.
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1 h 19 mins
A road trip to Chile's past and present through the story of Sergio Contreras and his first return trip to Chile after 38 years of exile. Sergio, full of optimism, tells the eternal story of people being forced to leave their homes.
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1 h 16 mins
Two Salvadoran refugees negotiate survivor's guilt.
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Watan (Homeland) looks beyond the rhetoric and into the human cost of the Syrian refugee crisis. Intimate portraits of refugees in the camps and cities of Jordan reveal the struggle for normalcy and dignity.

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1 h 19 mins
A 19th century Armenian writer living in Japan becomes the de facto ambassador of a lost nation.

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1 h 17 mins
The rise of Australia's most divisive politician
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Immigration,Documentary,Cultural Studies,Australian Studies,Identity Studies,History,Social Commentary,20th Century,21st Century,Indigenous