Contribution short abstract:

Stories without Borders is a film practice-based research output that captures the realities and envisions the futures of 'protracted displacement economies' in 5 countries across the world.

Contribution long abstract:

Around the world many refugees and displaced people are in limbo: unable to return home, unwanted where they are living and unable to go anywhere else, often living in long term precarious environments. Across 5 different locations (DRC, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Pakistan and Myanmar/Thailand) young filmmakers have made short creative documentaries looking to their futures, which may be insecure, yet despite this their dreams are still very high. Stories without Borders is a practice-based research output that captures the realities and envisions the futures of 'protracted displacement economies' in 5 countries across the world. This presentation will present some of these works, while also provoking our understandings of displacement affected communities by including the ‘host’ population, amongst others, and approaching the ‘economy’ as including both financial and non-financial transactions. This project aims to show that if community organisations and displaced people are empowered, the vast economic potential of displacement-affected communities around the world may be realised. 'Stories without Borders' is a film practice research output of the Protracted Displacement Economies Research project.