The British Red Cross has produced this short conceptual video to demonstrate the difficulties refugees face, and encourage people to look beyond the negative media stereotypes.

Red Balloon was produced as part of Refugee Week and uses stop-motion techniques to follow the journey of one refugee who has arrived in the UK. So far it has had more than 12,000 hits on YouTube.

For the film buffs there is also a behind-the-scenes video on the charity's website and Youtube channel, showing how it was made.

 

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