Welcome

Mar 11, 2009

1h 50m

★ 7.2

Friendship has no borders. True love has no limits.

Overview

Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English Channel when you can't swim? The boy soon discovers that his trip won't be as easy as he imagined... The community of struggling illegal aliens in Calais

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Nord-Ouest Films

Welcome Trailers

Cast

Simon

Vincent Lindon

Bilal

Firat Ayverdi

Marion

Audrey Dana

Le lieutenant de police

Olivier Rabourdin

Mîna

Derya Ayverdi

Alain

Yannick Renier

Bruno

Thierry Godard

Le gradé chez Simon

Jean-Paul Comart

Koban

Fırat Çelik

Zoran

Mehmet Selim Akgul

Mirko

Murat Subaşı

La mère de Mina

Behi Djanati Atai

Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.

6.2

All Saints

Aug 25, 2017

Michael Spurlock decides to trade in his corporate sales career to become a pastor. Unfortunately, his first assignment is to close a country church and sell the prime piece of land where it sits. He soon has a change of heart when the church starts to welcome refugees from Burma. Spurlock now finds himself working with the refugees to turn the land into a working farm to pay the church's bills.

7.3

Evil

Sep 16, 2003

Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many. To protect Erik from his violent stepfather’s reaction to his expulsion, Erik's mother arranges for Erik to spend a year at Stjärnsberg Boarding School, the only school willing to accept him. This is Erik's last chance to graduate to Upper School and he promises his mother, for his and her sake, to do all he can to stay out of trouble.

7.4

The Mission

Sep 6, 1986

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.

6.8

Kundun

Dec 25, 1997

The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since.

5.3

No Hard Feelings

Sep 24, 2020

Parvis, the son of exiled Iranians, copes with life in his small hometown by indulging himself with pop culture, Grindr dates, and raves. After being caught shoplifting, he is sentenced to community service at a refugee shelter where he meets siblings Banafshe and Amon, who have fled Iran. As a romantic attraction between Parvis and Amon grows, the fragile relationship between the three is put to a test.

5.3

The Walker

Feb 13, 2007

An escort who caters to Washington D.C.'s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case.

5.9

Lovers

Dec 8, 1999

A French woman falls in love with a Yugoslavian man, not realizing that he is an illegal immigrant.

7.2

The Visitor

Feb 21, 2008

A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.

6.6

Night Shapes

Aug 12, 1999

The Pope is in town and the night of his stay is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin′s inhabitants. Rich and poor, down-and-outs and policemen, street kids and taxi drivers - in their search for a little bit of happiness, they all end up on an amusing and at times harrowing odyssey through the labyrinth of the big city.

6.6

Frozen River

Mar 26, 2008

After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy is in great need of money to find a home. Lured by the possibility of easy cash, she joins Lila, a widowed Mohawk who earns a living by smuggling immigrants from Canada to the U.S. across the St. Lawrence.

7.2

Maria Full of Grace

Jan 18, 2004

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.

6.1

Shaft in Africa

Jun 14, 1973

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

7.0

God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore

May 16, 1982

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make their way to Paris, and, after spending time in a French prison camp, eventually escape to Marseille, from where they hope to sail to a safe port.

6.1

Sounds of Sand

May 2, 2007

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the villagers leave and head south. Rahne, the only literate one, decides to head east with his three children and Mouna, his wife. A few sheep, some goats, and Chamelle, a dromedary, are their only riches. A tale of exodus, quest, hope and fatality.

7.2

Babel

Oct 26, 2006

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

7.8

Dogville

May 21, 2003

When beautiful young Grace arrives in the isolated township of Dogville, the small community agrees to hide her from a gang of ruthless gangsters, and, in return, Grace agrees to do odd jobs for the townspeople.

7.3

The Terminal

Jun 17, 2004

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.

7.7

Hotel Rwanda

Dec 22, 2004

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.

3.7

Fighting for Freedom

Oct 8, 2013

Two intertwined families, one American, one Mexican, and their fight to save three year old illegal Angelina from deportation.