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: 1992
Directed by:
Gurinder Chadha
A comedy about a group of Asian women from Birmingham who go on a day trip to Blackpool beach. Their little adventure provides them with an opportunity to share their secrets and to reassess their lives. It turns into a journey of self-discovery.
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Filed under: Asian British | Inter-ethnic romance | Journey | Patriarchy | Religion | Secrets
Year of release: 1995
Directed by:
Karim Dridi
Ismael and Mouloud, two brothers of Maghrebi descent, make their way to Marseilles, from where the younger of the two is to be sent 'home' to his parents in North Africa.
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Filed under: Coming of age | Crime | Journey | Maghrebi French
Year of release: 2004
Directed by:
Fatih Akin
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The film tells the story of Cahit, a self-destructive, alcoholic, cocaine-sniffing, 44 year-old Turk living in Hamburg and the 20 year-old, beautiful Turkish girl Sibel.
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Filed under: Journey | Patriarchy | Turkish German | Wedding / Marriage
Year of release: 1990
Directed by:
Xavier Koller
The story of a family who leave their poor Turkish village and six of their seven children behind, seeking a more prosperous life in Switzerland. Together with their youngest son, they embark on a hazardous journey across the Alps.
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Filed under: Fathers | Journey | Mothers
Year of release: 2004
Directed by:
Ismaël Ferroukhi
Ismaël Ferroukhi's first feature is a touching road movie about an elderly Moroccan father, resident in Southern France, who pressurises his irreligious 17-year-old son, Reda, to drive him on a 3,000 mile Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
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Filed under: Fathers | Journey | Maghrebi French | Religion | Sons
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: 2003
Directed by:
François Duperon
The story of a friendship between the Jewish boy Momo, whose mother died and whose father is not interested in taking care of him, and Monsieur Ibrahim, the Turkish owner of a store in a poor and multi-ethnic neighbourhood in Paris.
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Filed under: Coming of age | Journey | Religion
Year of release: 2002
Directed by:
Fatih Akin
Gigi returns to Solino and marries Ada
Solino is the name of a small Italian town and the place where the film begins and ends. From here, the Amato family – consisting of father Romano, mother Rosa and their sons Gigi and Giancarlo – set off in search of a new and economically more prosperous life in Germany. The film essentially depicts the experience of Italian guest workers who were ‘invited’ by the German government in the 1950s and sixties to contribute with their labour force to the economic miracle.
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Filed under: Fathers | History | Journey | Mothers | Wedding / Marriage
Year of release: 2000
Directed by:
Olivier Ducastel,
Jacques Martineau
When Felix, a gay, HIV-positive man of mixed French Maghrebi descent, loses his job in Dieppe he takes the opportunity to embark upon a journey in search of his father, whom he never met.
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Filed under: Fathers | Journey | Maghrebi French | Queer diaspora
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