The Exiles

The Exiles 2024

8.70

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.

2024

There Will Be Spring

There Will Be Spring 2020

5.30

Late 40’s after the war. Strange languaged and religioned immigrants fleeing from Karelia region are hated by Finns in the countryside. 19-year old Anni is living her life wanting to forget the war and hostility surrounding her. Falling in love with a man who hasn’t left fighting, threatens Anni’s whole family’s future and hope for mutual forgiveness..

2020

Blue Notes and Exiled Voices

Blue Notes and Exiled Voices 1992

1

An affectionate portrait of exiled South African musicians in London, featuring Louis Moholo, Pinise Saul and Hugh Masekela.

1992

The Dawsonians

The Dawsonians 1970

1

During the first days after the 1973 Chilean coup d’état, the political leadership of the Popular Unity government was arrested and transferred to Dawson Island, Magallanes Region, extreme south of Chile and the mainland. The wives of the then political prisoners began an incessant effort to find out the whereabouts of their husbands and then try to return them alive. In these circumstances, they meet and spontaneously organize into a group they call the “Dawsonianas.”

1970

Hollow Land

Hollow Land 2013

6.17

In this evocative film about the eternal human search for home, Berta and Solomon arrive in a land that promises respite from their many journeys. But have they found utopia... or just another stop on their long journey?

2013

Presencia lejana

Presencia lejana 1982

1

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

1982

Mum's Idea

Mum's Idea 2010

1

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

2010