Forced to Flee – New series of short films on displacement

IRIN Films is pleased to announce the launch of “Forced to Flee” – a powerful series of short films about internal displacement.

Around the world tens of millions of people have been forced to leave their homes. Some have been driven out by conflict, some by natural disaster. Some have been displaced in the name of development, others by climate change.

Meet Kamarik and his wife Dharma who, in 2001, were chased out of their mountain village in Nepal by Maoist rebels. For the past eight years, they and their six children have lived “worse than dogs” in the capital Kathmandu.

Hear the moving story of 50-year-old Sum Rin, displaced from a shanty town in the centre of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh to make way for a new commercial development.

Or ex-child soldier Emmanuel,who witnessed his own parents’ murder, and as a consequence, can never go back to his childhood village in Liberia.

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