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"Community is the incredible everyday. Ordinary and extraordinary. Simple acts of shared generosity. Kindness multiplied to become an unstoppable force!" - Refugee Week
As part of Refugee Week 2025 (Mon 16 – Sun 22 Jun), Bertha DocHouse presents a programme of insightful short-but-perfectly-formed-docs that explore different refugee experiences from around the world. In these films are stories of hardship, resilience and survival by those who have found themselves in situations that are difficult to imagine.
Programme details
Boat People | Canada | 10mins | 2023 | dir. Thao Lam, Kjell Boersma
As a child in Vietnam, Thao’s mother often rescued ants from bowls of sugar water. Years later they would return the favour. Boat People is an animated documentary that uses a striking metaphor to trace one family’s flight across the turbulent waters of history.
The Score | UK | 25mins | 2022 | dir. Aleksandra Bilić
Director Aleksandra Bilić explores her mother Maja’s complex relationship with what she left behind—including a cherished childhood piano—when she fled her native Sarajevo in 1992.
The Mountain | Venezuela | 9mins | 2020 | dir. Carolina Gómez de Llarena
While living in a deserted valley in eastern Lebanon, seven-year-old Rahaf describes the wonders of her past, present and future – without knowing the limits of her own imagination.
Fatherland | Denmark | 19mins | 2024 | dir. Benjamin Kodboel
Mesbah Msheelm and his three sons have lost their residence permits and now the father fears they will either be sent back to Syria or scattered in various other countries.
The screening was available on our custom-built streaming site to watch from 16/06/25 10:00 BST until 22/06/25 23:59 BST.