An artistic meditation on trauma, change, and what it means to run away from your roots and become an immigrant.

We walk

An artistic meditation on trauma, change, and what it means to run away from your roots and become an immigrant.

Showan lives in a village in Kurdistan on the border between Iran and Iraq. He now has to smuggle goods on the Iranian-Iraqi border (Kolbari) to make money. When crossing the mountain border, the border guards shoot them. Showan is scared to escape, and is separated from the group. He gets lost in a minefield that has remained there since the Iran-Iraq war.

Showan

Showan lives in a village in Kurdistan on the border between Iran and Iraq. He must smuggle goods on the Iranian-Iraqi border (Kolbari) to make money.

Showan Filmmaker Comment

To Alex, a naive six years old boy, the mysterious patrols his father leads with his right-wing militia are just more occasions to go play hide and seek out in the woods.

Rebel

To Alex, a naive six years old boy, the mysterious patrols his father leads with his right-wing militia are just more occasions to go play hide and seek out in the woods.

Samos Filmmaker Comment

At the border of the Schengen Area, international laws and conventions forced thousands of people to live in inhuman camps. One of them is Samos, built for 600 persons and hosting more than 6000, on the island that has the same name. Through interviews with the people on the ground, viewers gain insight into the European politics that have led to this humanitarian crisis.

SAMOS – The Faces of our Border

Through interviews from the people at the inhuman migrant camp of Samos (Greece), built for 600 persons and hosting more than 6000, learn the European politics that caused this humanitarian crisis.

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BLOCK 14: Immigrant Stories II

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