The Global Migration Film Festival

Cinema and migration have a magical bond stretching back to over a century ago, when filmmakers, many of whom were immigrants themselves, began making movies that depicted a world on the move. Their films brought the dramatic, poignant and comic stories of migrants to diverse audiences, through images that provoked feeling among people of every culture.

The Global Migration Film Festival (GMFF) features films and documentaries that capture the promise and challenges of migration, and the unique contributions that migrants make to their new communities. The goal of the festival is to pave the way for greater discussion around one of the greatest phenomena of our time.

In celebration of the GMFF, IOM-UN Migration and Fordham University will hold a discussion on the media landscape and migration and screen films from the festival’s slate. From films to tweets, newspapers, and television shows, sources for consumption of media are plentiful today. The discussions alongside the film festival will examine the myriad ways the media reports on, discusses, and portrays migration and migrants. Filmmaker and GMFF International jury member Idil Ibrahim will screen and hold a Q&A on her film Sega.