Refugee Girls: Film screening and discussion at the University of Lyon 1

The Arqus Alliance and the University of Lyon 1 organise a screening of the film “Refugee Girls” on Tuesday, 3 June (18:00 CEST).

This event is part of the bottom-up initiative “Arqus: an Alliance supporting refugees’ right to a qualified and unique study experience”, which aims to organise a day of reflection on refugee students at each partner university.

At Paul Zech Mediathèque on Rockefeller campus, project manager Elisa Gamba and film director Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso will present the documentary film “Refugee Girls”, which deals with the experiences of refugee students at European universities and tells two parallel stories: an Afghan student at Sapienza University of Rome, and two Ukrainian girls at the University of Barcelona.

Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso is the director of  “Refugee Girls” and “When you can’t go back”, the two films screened at the “Arqus: an Alliance supporting refugees” events. Elisa Gamba is a PhD candidate in Human Rights, Society and Multi-level Governance at the University of Padua and a member of the Arqus Inclusion and Diversity Hub.

This event will start with a brief introduction on the integration of refugee students, followed by the screening of the film. The documentary highlights the careers of young refugee women studying at European universities. It offers an intimate immersion in their realities, challenges, hopes and resilience. Afterwards, a round table with the speakers and an open discussion with the public will deepen the issues raised by the documentary.

The event is open to the public and admission is free of charge. If you are in Lyon and interested in attending, please register here.

Read more about this initiative here.

“Arqus: an Alliance supporting refugees’ right to a qualified and unique study experience” is one of the many ad hoc bottom-up initiatives financed by the Arqus Innovation Fund.