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TV Dinners: Migration Matters Double Bill

  • Foodhall / Sheffield 121 Eyre Street Sheffield, England, S1 4QW United Kingdom (map)

Join us in your favourite community living room for a very special episode of TV Dinners as part of Migration Matters festival

Film #1: Britain on Film: Welcome to Britain (PG, Runtime: 84 mins)

Whether seeking safety, freedom or simply a better life, the 20th century saw a rise in immigration to the UK. Sometimes welcomed, immigrants have also encountered hostility, racism and xenophobia even as they have enriched Britain’s economy and cultural life.

What emerges from these incredibly valuable films is a picture of a country in flux as a century of conflict, the end of Empire and the forces of globalisation challenged geographical boundaries. See Basque families fleeing the Spanish Civil War arrive in Southampton; Vietnamese children find sanctuary in Birmingham; a Jewish family escape the pogroms of pre-war Romania for a Derby suburb. Witness early multi-culturalism in London and Manchester, the stories of second generation immigrants amid racism and rioting in the ‘70s and ‘80s, and the traditions, restrictions and comforts of immigrant communities.

During a period in which some UK residents are being asked to re-frame their presence in the country, this programme explores the manifold costs to our shared humanity in turning people away and contends that all citizens should have a right to call themselves British: no matter where they started from.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxRCMacHXkM

Film #2: Not Just Football (PG, Runtime: 70 mins)

In 2005, Gabriel Stauring, a young and enterprising activist from California, decides to travel to Africa - with a camera in hand - to do what he can to help the thousands of refugees from Darfur escaping from a cruel and dramatic civil war in Sudan.

Eight years later, Gabriel's enthusiasm is challenged with disappointment: he has since created an NGO and is still risking his life and facing outstanding obstacles, but the international community is no longer interested in his mission. What can he do, to re-capture the world's attention? In 2012, he creates "Darfur United", a soccer team made of young Darfuri refugees living in the camps of Chad.

Through exclusive access to 500 hours of video footage taken directly by Gabriel Stauring and other characters in the flim, Not Just Football follows the journey of Darfur United players, from the dust of the refugee camps to the lights of the World Football Cup; and along the complex path of going from being refugees to becoming citizens.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aglsgDENOk

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