And yet her latest work, the refugee satire Meet the Barbarians (Les Barbares), is probably her most bluntly French film to date, and certainly her most political one. But it may also be her least ...

Non-professional actor Abou Sangare stars in Boris Lojkine’s drama as a refugee in Paris awaiting ... winning best acting honors at the European Film Awards and France’s Césars.

The French satire takes aim at the differences between Ukrainian and Syrian refugees in Western eyes ... are differentiated from the rest of the movie by news chyrons, as well as by a smaller ...

UNHCR reports that more than 122 million people around the world have been forced to flee their homes due to war, violence, and persecution. While many arrive in unfamiliar places seeking protection, ...

As the refugees in the bar belt out their anthem, the film cuts to a closeup of the young French actress Madeleine Lebeau, tears streaming down her face. Lebeau had fled Paris with her husband ...

The French actress Madeleine Lebeau, in the small role of Rick’s jilted mistress, cries real tears during the film’s stirring performance of “La Marseillaise”; she too was a refugee ...

During the dramatic journey, the film shows her telling a fellow refugee, “Swimming is home ... with real-life French-Lebanese sisters Nathalie and Manal Issa playing them on screen.

AMMAN — UNICEF and the French embassy in partnership with the French Institute in Jordan and the Royal Film Commission of Jordan announced the reopening of the cinema at Za’atari Refugee Camp on ...

Even when the action builds to a frisson of outright horror—as in one unbearable scene, involving a pregnant Somali refugee (Joely Mbundu)—the movie doesn’t inflate or overemphasize.

While the French ... a refugee who’s also an experienced doctor, brings a sudden burst of true emotion. Despite Delpy’s attempts at broad satire, she ultimately delivers a message movie ...

Kino Lorber has picked up North American rights to Boris Lojkine’s Souleymane’s Story, a French drama about a ... best acting honors at the European Film Awards and France’s Césars.