The 19th Charity Refugee Film Festival
The 19th Charity Refugee Film Festival
The 19th Charity Refugee Film Festival
This year, our Refugee Film Festival enters its 19th year, UNHCR focuses on building a world where being a refugee is only a chapter in a person’s life, not their whole life story. Until everyone is safe, we keep showing up.
Movie Description
This year’s Refugee Film Festival public screenings will be hosted from 25 July to 2 August, 2026.
Film: “Khartoum”
Length: 80 minutes
Category: Documentary
Language: Arabic, English (with Chinese and English subtitles)
Five lives, one city, the fate of a nation.
A civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance committee volunteer and two street boys.
It documents the survival and quest for freedom through dreams, rebellion, and civil strife of five Khartoum residents, who were compelled to flee Sudan for other countries in East Africa due to the ongoing violence in the Sudanese civil war, which have started in 2023.
Film: “Photophobia ”
Length: 71 minutes
Category: Documentary
Language: Ukrainian, Russian (with Chinese and English subtitles)
On a cold February morning, twelve-year-old Niki and his family arrive at the Kharkiv metro station to hide from the terrifying war raging in the streets of their city.
For Niki's family, daylight becomes synonymous with mortal danger. The boy is not allowed to leave the premises of the station, where he lives with hundreds of other people, under the constant glow of neon lights. Niki wanders aimlessly through the deserted carriages and platforms, and when he meets Vika, a whole new world opens up before him.
The children gradually grow closer and together find the courage to feel the sunlight on their faces again.
Public Screening Sessions*
| Date | Time | Film | Venue |
| 25/7 (Sat) | 3:30pm | Khartoum | Broadway Cinematheque |
| 26/7 (Sun) | 3:30pm | Photophobia | Broadway Cinematheque |
| 1/8 (Sat) | 1:30pm | Photophobia | Broadway Cinematheque |
| 2/8 (Sun) | 1:30pm | Khartoum | Broadway Cinematheque |
*There will be special charity screening activities to be announced soon. Please stay tune.