Welcome

A teenage Kurdish runaway treats Europe like a theme park until Calais suggests otherwise. His sole mission to reunite with a girlfriend becomes a crash course in drowning without water and border bureaucracy. The Calais jungle turns out to be less poetic tent city, more bureaucratic purgatory.

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Philippe Lioret directed Welcome in 2009. See Philippe Lioret's full filmography, where to start with Philippe Lioret, or where to go after you've seen everything by Philippe Lioret.

Welcome was released in 2009 (FR original-language production), with a runtime of 110 minutes.