Welcome (2009)
"Friendship has no borders. True love has no limits."
ThumbScore
👍 75%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 74%
(RT: 87%, MC: 61) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Firat Ayverdi as Bilal
Audrey Dana as Marion
Derya Ayverdi as Mîna
Yannick Renier as Alain
Thierry Godard as Bruno
Jean-Paul Comart as Le gradé chez Simon
Is Welcome good?
Most people think so. 75% audience score, estimated from 266 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 74%.
Overview
Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English Channel when you can't swim? The boy soon discovers that his trip won't be as easy as he imagined... The community of struggling illegal aliens in Calais Wikipedia ↗
