Welcome

About Welcome

Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe.

Welcome is a 2009 romance film directed by Philippe Lioret. It runs 110 minutes and was released in March 2009.

The film is filed under refugee, illegal immigration, calais, and kurd.

Vincent Lindon appears as Simon, Firat Ayverdi as Bilal, Audrey Dana as Marion, and Olivier Rabourdin as Le lieutenant de police. The screenplay is by Emmanuel Courcol and Olivier Adam. In the United States it streams on France Channel Amazon Channel.

Happy End, Berlin Alexanderplatz, and Calais: The Last Border make useful companions to Welcome. TMDB voters put it at 7.2 out of 10 across 267 votes.