Document Nowhere Home

Youth Programme
Scottish Premiere

Filmmaker Margreth Olin follows a number of boys from Salhus, a Norwegian centre offering temporary residence to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.

Traumatised by what they have witnessed in Afghanistan, Hussein is entirely dependent on his brother Hassan, and the support they receive from the Norwegian state. Goli, who stayed there, now lives back in Kurdistan. He was deported from Norway the day after he turned 18.

While all the boys at Salhus hope for an extension of their asylum status, the threat of deportation as they reach adulthood hangs over all their heads- and the uncertain futures that await them in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the other war-torn countries from which they come. A visceral and provocative film, Nowhere Home scrutinises one of Europe's major moral dilemmas: does a country in crisis become a safer place by default once you're grown up?

Introduced by Diana Rix of the Refugee Survival Trust
Best Norwegian Documentary, Bergen International Film Festival 2012/ Best Documentary, The Norwegian Documentary Film Festival 2013