Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet) Nowhere Home

Nowhere Home / De andre
Norway, Greece, Iraq 2012, 93m
Dir. Margreth Olin. With: Goli Mohammed Ali, Husein Ali, Khalid Faquiri

Nowhere Home is an intimate and moving film about teenagers in extreme circumstances who fight to keep their hope for a dignified life alive. They flee their country with their survival at risk, crossing borders on foot or smuggled in trucks, containers and small boats, eventually arriving alone in Norway.

The asylum-seeking children in the film are given temporary residence permits in Norway. At the age of 18, they are to be returned to their country of origin.

We meet Goli from Kurdistan in a cell at Ila Detention Centre and Security Prison. He is deported from Norway the day after he turns 18, and we follow him as he embarks on a new journey. Khalid is the film’s poet, movingly expressing his and the other boys’ situations while they’re in Salhus Reception Centre, counting down to their 18th birthdays and the decisions which will be handed down then.

“The sooner I die, the better for me. It will be much better. I’ll be calm, I’ll be done. I can sit and relax up there. Won’t have to think of anything anymore, and you’ll finish your movie” – Goli, 18 years old.