Films

Introduction The Namesake movie, directed by Mira Nair, is adapted from Jhumpa Lahiri’s 2003 novel, which comes under the genre of drama and Hindi cinema. The film, released in 2006, is currently available to buy or rent on YouTube Movies. The producers of the film are Mira Nair and Lydia Dean Pilcher, with Fox Searchlight […]

Author: Vice News HBO. Year: 2018 Length: Twenty-One Minutes. Publisher: YouTube. Motivation to Move In the month of December 2018, a large group of people known as the ‘caravan’ is on the march to the United States, mostly from Central and South American countries. The protagonist is a sixteen-year-old boy who is going on with

Author: Channel 4 News. Narrator: Jamal Osman. Setting: Sub-Sahara Africa. Length: Thirteen Minutes. Background It is an investigative documentary on the dangers faced by migrants using the ‘Southern’ migration route to seek better living standards in the same continent. The southern migration route is a path followed by migrants from both east and west Africa

To reach Europe, citizens from many countries on the African continent venture into the oceans and seas. They leave for several reasons. Some leave their homeland to flee armed conflicts, climate crises, and misery. Others are fleeing persecution, and they are all looking for better skies. “Adù” is the title of this film which traces,

Length: 45 minutes. Director: Charles Empatz Production under BBC Africa Eye. Location: Eastern Africa, Middle East, and Europe. Language: English. Year of release: 2021 The Beginning The documentary starts in a remote part of Eastern African country, the great Ethiopia. Like many other African countries, the area is poverty-ridden due to the ‘African’ disease factors.

Compared to animals, humans have a unique ability: we can dream. Our dreams differ greatly, but we all want to live amidst goodness and abundance. And for this, people are willing to pay a high price, even if it means risking their lives. Although most migration is voluntary and beneficial to individuals and societies, it

More than 2500 years ago, an ancient Greek tragedian Euripides wrote in his masterpiece “Medea”: “What greater grief than the loss of one’s native land?”. Nowadays, every migrant, regardless of the reasons for their departure, hopes for a better life in a new place. Nevertheless, what happens to migrants after so many years of living

Documentary Length: 1hr 28 min. Language: English Setting; Africa and the United States. Producer: Christopher Dillon Quinn. The Origin The documentary begins in an African Savannah setting, backed by a hot tune by Sudanese activist singer ‘Gigi’, known as Guramayle. The refugees are shown lamenting the Sudanese civil war, which tore them from the motherland

Documentary. In English. Running time: 1 hour. In the heartbreaking documentary First Person Plural, DeannBorshayDeann, a Korean adoptee traces her emotional journey from Sun Duk orphanage in South Korea as Cha Jung Hee to growing up in the US as Deann Borshay and finally rediscovering her real identity as Kang Ok jin and her “real

Whenever any hurdle arises in international trade flows, it acquires over the top attention at the global level. The ‘Suez Canal’, which is the shortest sea trade route between Asia and Europe, got blocked in the March 2021 for a few days, when one of the longest shipping containers named as ‘Ever Given’ ran aground