Year of release: 2011
Directed by:
Yasemin Samdereli
On 10 September, 1964, Germany’s one-millionth ‘guest worker’ was welcomed. Spanning a period of no less than forty-five years, this film by sisters Yasemin Samdereli (director) and Nesrin Samdereli (screenplay) tells the story of guest worker number one-million-and-one – a man named Hüseyin Yilmaz and his family.
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Filed under: Family memories | Fathers | Journey | Mothers | Turkish German
Year of release: 2005
Directed by:
Michael Haneke
Literary talk-show host Georges Laurent, his wife Anne, a successful publisher, and their son Pierrot receive a number of video tapes which suggest that their home is under surveillance, from an anonymous sender. Mysterious drawings accompany these tapes. The alarmed Georges, though not letting his wife in on the secret, has an idea who the sender might be - and he tracks him down.
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Filed under: Family memories | History | Secrets
Year of release: 2005
Directed by:
Sandhya Suri
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I for India is a chronicle of immigration in Britain, from the Sixties to the present day, as seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera.
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Filed under: Asian British | Daughters | Documentary | Family memories | Fathers
Year of release: 1997
Directed by:
Yamina Benguigui
Mémoires d'immigrés: L'héritage maghrébin, a film directed by Yamina Benguigui
Yamina Benguigui, a woman filmmaker of Algerian descent, described this documentary film project as ‘the narrative of my journey at the heart of the Maghrebi immigration in France. The history of fathers, mothers, children, the history of my father, of my mother. My history’. The tripartite documentary gives an account of the collective memory of the Maghrebi diaspora in France, juxtaposing the voices of Maghrebi immigrants wtth those of state officials who devised or implemented immigration and social policies.
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Filed under: Family memories | Maghrebi French
Year of release: 2001
Directed by:
Rachid Bouchareb
Alloune, a Senegalese tourist guide working in the History of Slavery Museum on the island of Goree, Senegal, decides to trace his ancestors’ routes, who were sold as slaves to the New World around 1800.
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Filed under: Crime | Family memories | Inter-ethnic romance | Journey
Year of release: 1995
Directed by:
Yüksel Yavuz
The film chronicles the memories of Yüksel Yavuz's father, who migrated to Germany in 1968, where he worked in a fish factory and ship building wharf.
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Filed under: Documentary | Family memories | Fathers | Sons | Turkish German
