After spending most of his adult life on the migrant trail, Alex, originally from Iran, tried to cross the English Channel from France twice. He talked to a French filmmaker and the film was posted just as the latest row broke out between Britain and France about how to stop people like him from attempting the crossing at all.
The film "Borga" tells the story of a Ghanaian migrant who wants to make it big in Europe. But the reality of his new life in Germany largely shatters those dreams.
A six-episode documentary attempts to give a voice to migrants under the age of 18 in Greece who have witnessed one of the worst humanitarian crises of our time. The web series, named "Through Our Eyes," is sponsored by the NGO Still I Rise.
"The writer from a country without bookshops" is a portrait of exiled poet Juan Tomas Avila Laurel, highlighting the long, brutal rule over his homeland, Equatorial Guinea.
More young Africans are leaving behind their lives in the West and breaking barriers in their countries of origin. Filmmaker Ras Mutabaruka takes us through the development of his new Homecoming series, exclusive to DW.
A documentary film by Italian director Mauro Caputo entitled 'No Borders. Flusso di Coscienza' tells the story of the long journey taken by migrants along the Balkan route. The film is currently in post-production.
Waad Al Kateab is an award winning filmmaker. In her documentary 'For Sama', she explains to her daughter why she and her husband Hamza decided to stay in Eastern Aleppo even after the siege. Now Al Kateab is using the film's momentum to raise awareness of the current situation in Syria.
Maryam Zaree, daughter of Iranian parents, is a successful actress and director based in Berlin. As a teenager, she found out a well-kept secret: that she was born inside Iran's infamous Evin prison. Now Zaree produced a documentary to come to terms with her parents' silence and to shed light on her own migration history.
This year's Venice film festival presented a documentary about the work of Italian humanitarian organization Emergency, entitled 'Beyond the Beach: The hope and the hell.' In it, Emergency's founder, Gino Strada spoke out about the unprecedented levels of hatred in society.
The life-and-death risks taken by many young Gambians who attempt the journey to Europe could hardly be more serious. Yet a group in Sweden has decided to create a game based on what many of the migrants go through.
The film "Dove bisogna stare" (Where You Need to Stay) tells the story of four women volunteers who work with migrants in Italy. The documentary, which was created in collaboration with Doctors Without Borders, will begin screening in Italian theatres on January 17.
A Paris-based Ivorian refugee retraced the dangerous route he took through Africa to escape civil war and produced Revenir, eye-opening documentary screened at the African Film Festival in Cologne.