The Fishing Boats of Kayar
After 15 years in Spain as a migrant, Thimbo visits his Senegalese fishing village, where he is overwhelmed by mixed feelings of nostalgia and uprooting, yearning and resentment. He also grapples with the dangerous influence he exerts on the local youth.
Your Own Boss
A food delivery worker struggles to juggle his responsibilities as a young father with the demands of an algorithm that pushes him to the limit.
Cafunè
Alma, an orphaned refugee child, is thrust back into her traumatic past when her doll falls into a swimming pool, mirroring the shipwreck of the refugee boat where she was the lone survivor. Luna, her savior, steps in to help her overcome her trauma and rebuild her life.
Cop de colze
El gran somni d’Hazal, alemanya filla de turcs és que Alemanya li doni una oportunitat. Pel seu 18è aniversari, vol escapar de la rutina diària i festejar amb les seves amigues. Però un incident fatal ho canvia tot i Hazal es veu obligada a fugir, i fa cap a Turquia. Elbow explica la història d’una […]
The Antique
Lado, a young Georgian man, smuggles antique Georgian furniture into Russia. Tired of his immaturity, Lado’s girlfriend Medea buys an apartment in the historic center of St. Petersburg. The rent for her apartment is cheap because the apartment comes with its owner, Vadim Vadimich, a temperamental old man. At one point, the Russian government illegally […]
To a Land Unknown
Chatila and Reda, two Palestinian cousins, commit petty theft so they can buy fake passports to leave Athens. When Reda loses the money he has saved due to his drug addiction, Chatila devises an extreme plan, which involves them posing as smugglers and taking hostages in an effort to get out of their desperate situation.
Pirineus, el mur invisible
The French-Spanish border, which runs 623 km along the Pyrenees, has been subject to recurrent controls and closures by the French government since 2015. The excuse was the terrorist threat. The reality is different, Paris wants to control the migration that comes to it from Spain. The Schengen Agreements of 1985 abolished controls on the […]
Separated
‘Separated’ details the horrors of Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy during his first term, under which thousands of immigrant children were forcibly separated from their parents after crossing the southern U.S. Border. The cruel policy was put in place in July 2017, but was lifted amid widespread outrage, though it continues to hurt families, with […]
