Refuge(e)

Refuge(e) traces the incredible journey of two refugees, Alpha and Zeferino. Each fled violent threats to their lives in their home countries and presented themselves at the US border asking for political asylum, only to be incarcerated in a for-profit prison for months on end without having committed any crime. Thousands more like them can't tell their stories.

• prison
• escape
• africa
• refugee
• new mexico
• usa–mexico border
• border crossing
• detention camp
• torture
• human rights
• student protest
• mexican border
• government corruption
• woman director
• protestors
• prison brutality
• immigrant experience
• asylum seekers
• guinea
• west african
• border control
• refuge
• democratic republic of the congo
• central africa
• human rights protest
• short film
• street protest
• refugees
• documentary short
• female filmmaker
• violence
• extremism
• political violence