For 2024, Counterpoints Arts and Other Cinemas – two organisations who work across intersections of racial justice, migration, and climate – have collaborated on a film programme taking place June 17th-23rd for a community-powered week!
To mark this year’s Refugee Week, BFI and Counterpoints Arts have compiled a collection of films that explore refugee experiences in the past and present and across different parts of the world.
Moving Worlds is a programme of films available to watch at home during Refugee Week, a UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees (15-21 June 2020). Moving Worlds is produced by Counterpoints Arts, which coordinates Refugee Week nationally. In light of physical distancing restrictions, this year’s programme is working digitally in order to facilitate home screenings and online post-screening conversations. … More
Resources around World Religion Day for schools including lots of informative videos about all faiths, many with lesson plans from TrueTube: Award-winning free resources for RE, PSHE and Citizenship.
Project overview Iris in the Community was a Big Lottery funded project which ran from 2015 -2018. Its aims were to work with communities across Wales to make their own film and deliver their own mini-Iris film festival utilising films from our back catalogue. During the life of the project we engaged with 30 groups … More
Cinemaximiliaan brings film and debates to asylum centres, private homes and cinemas all over Belgium, bridging newcomers with locals in a personal way. The starting point of the film project is each participants desire to share their story through a short film. Films are made in and around the Cinemaximiliaan project house in Brussels. It … More
Cinemaximiliaan brings films and debates to asylum centres, private homes and cinemas all over Belgium.
Engage local media to promote your event and help Refugee Week tell a different story about refugees. You can download the Dropbox media tool kit for 2019 here. It includes the following useful tools and tips to help make your events a success!
How many endangered languages are there in the World and what are the chances they will die out completely?
A list of films featuring minority languages.
