Minari
Lee Isaac Chung | 2020
United States | 115 min | 12+ years | English, Korean with English subtitles | Subtitles

A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, Minari follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream.

Reunited (Action! Film Club)
Thursday 29 January 2026, 6:00pm
The Melting Pot, Edinburgh

Having fled from Syria two doctors and their kids get separated. The kids bravely live on their own in Turkey, while their parents make it to Canada and Denmark. Now they’re stuck in a Kafkaesque system that reduces their family life to Skype calls. Will they manage to reunite?

To A Land Unknown
Mahdi Fleifel | 2024
France, Germany, Greece... | 105 min | 15+ years | English, Arabic, Greek with English subtitles

Two Palestinian cousins, Shatila and Reda, are stranded in Athens. Living on the fringes of society, they begin to take greater and greater risks in attempting to buy their passage […]

Unity Sisters

Unity Sisters is a non-hierarchical peer support group founded in 2014 for asylum-seeking women, refugees, and their children, assisting over 55 women and 155 children with shared migration experiences.

Chez Jolie Coiffure
Rosine Mbakam | 2018
Belgium | 70 min | 12+ years | French with English subtitles

Intimate portrait of Cameroonian hairdresser Sabine and daily life at her salon Jolie Coiffure in Brussels, where she perfects her craft whilst talking and laughing with an eclectic cast of customers and visitors, many of whom share her fears about deportation.

Hostile
Sonita Gale | 2021
United Kingdom | 97 min | 12+ years | English

Migrants in the UK face ever more menacing forces of marginalisation in this urgent documentary on the Hostile Environment.

Born in Damascus
Laura Wadha | 2021
Scotland, United Kingdom | 15 min | 12+ years | Arabic with English subtitles

Syrian-Scottish filmmaker Laura Wadha reconnects with her cousin after 10 years apart. Through video calls, old recordings, and ongoing processes of memory and reconciliation, they piece together the story of their family separated by war.