Postcards
What's it like to flee your country and end up in Cardiff? How does the city treat you? Ten refugees made short films about their experiences for Refugee Week 2005.
"Their spiky hair, fit bodies and banana smiles are irresistible."
Jody |
"My trainers let me feel like a man who can fly away."
Sniper G |
"Women in this country take the freedom they have as granted."
Louisa |
"They are like hungry pigs crashing in to each other."
Ahmed |
"If you see me, I will smile, but inside I am crying."
Hamko |
"What a team! They play as if they come from another planet." Alain |
"It now feels as though I was born speaking English."
Samra |
"I feel I have missed out on my childhood."
Joyce |
"I felt like the King of Wales."
Nayef |
"They can change like the judge in the court."
Linda |
Postcards was directed and produced by Nasfim Haque, BBC Wales
your comments
Sophie Jones from London
I feel very sorry for these people and I think that we should do more than this.
Bob Evans, Bryn Coch
Great stories, paints a very different picture to what you get in the tabloid press. Thanks for sharing!
audrey from cardiff
yea i think that its good that they can see how much we all take things for granted. just a shame some of us cant see that aswell. good luck to them i hope they settle in and make friends because theres knowhere better in my eyes than cardiff for that.
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