Family-Friendly Film Screening: Stories of Home, Change and Belonging
Join us for a special family-friendly screening of three powerful short films exploring themes of migration, home, resilience and community from around the world.
Through animation, fiction and documentary filmmaking, these films offer moving and accessible perspectives on what it means to leave home, adapt to change, and find belonging in new places.
Migrants (2020)
Directors: Hugo Caby, Antoine Dupriez, Aubin Kubiak, Lucas Lermytte, Zoé Devise
Running Time: 8 mins
Certification: U
A beautifully animated and dialogue-free story about two polar bears forced to leave their home as the climate changes around them. Travelling into unfamiliar territory, they encounter brown bears and must learn how to coexist.
Suitable for all ages, Migrants uses gentle storytelling and stunning visuals to explore themes of environmental change, migration and acceptance.
Aziza (2019)
Director: Soudade Kaadan
Running Time: 13 mins
Certification: Parental Guidance
Ayman, a Syrian refugee living in Lebanon, teaches his wife how to drive using their cherished car—the last remaining piece of the life they left behind. What begins as a driving lesson becomes an emotional journey through memory, love and loss.
Blending humour, imagination and heartfelt storytelling, Aziza offers a touching glimpse into the experiences of displaced families.
Tskaltubo (2023)
Director: Toby Andris
Running Time: 24 mins
Certification: U
After spending three decades living as refugees in an abandoned sanatorium in Georgia, Irakli and Nana are finally offered a new apartment. As the prospect of change arrives, they reflect on the meaning of home, ageing and new beginnings.
This thoughtful documentary follows a couple navigating a major life transition with warmth, dignity and hope.
About the Programme
Together, these three films invite audiences of all ages to reflect on migration in its many forms—from climate displacement and forced migration to the search for stability, belonging and community. Through personal stories and imaginative filmmaking, they highlight shared human experiences of adaptation, resilience and hope.