This Is Home: A Refugee Story

THIS IS HOME is an intimate portrait of four Syrian refugee families arriving in America and struggling to find their footing. With only eight months of help from the International Rescue Committee to become self-sufficient, they must forge ahead to rebuild their lives in a new home: Baltimore, Maryland. They attend cultural orientation classes and job training sessions where they must "learn America" -- everything from how to take public transportation to negotiating new gender roles.

When the newly imposed travel ban adds further questions and complications, their strength and resilience are put to the test. Through humour and heartbreak, this universal story illuminates what it's like to start over, no matter the obstacles. THIS IS HOME goes beyond the statistics, headlines, and political rhetoric to tell deeply personal stories, putting a human face on the global refugee crisis. Via Bullfrog Films

Directed by Alexandra Shiva
Produced by Alexandra Shiva and Lindsey Megrue

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

Audience Award, World Cinema Documentary, Sundance Film Festival

Video Librarian 2019 Best Documentaries

Winner, duPont-Columbia Award

Director's Award, Foreign Documentary, Cinetopia Film Festival

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

Cleveland International Film Festival

Seattle International Film Festival

Jerusalem Film Festival

Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival

Florida Film Festival

Telluride Mountainfilm Festival

Woods Hole Film Festival

Nantucket Film Festival

Maryland Film Festival

Salem Film Fest

Berkshire International Film Festival

Women + Film Festival

Define American Film Festival

Capital City Film Festival

NHdocs

North Dakota Human Rights and Arts Festival

Arab Film Festival (Arab Film and Media Institute)

Middle East Film Festival

Beacon Independent Film Festival

ReadingFilmFEST

Global Migration Film Festival 

RESOURCES

Bullfrog Films

Sundance Film Review 

SCREENING INFO

Counterpoints Arts has purchased a licence for up to 50 viewers to watch This is Home during Refugee Week 2020. If you'd like to see the film, email movingworldsfilms@gmail.com with 'This is Home' in the subject line.