thu 23
5€ | Place | Share |
Théatre National > Salle J. Huisman
After having explored reception centres for asylum seekers in The Fortress and Swiss detention centres in Special Flight, Fernand Melgar, in his new film The World Is Like That, tries to track down the deportees from his previous film. He found five of them. The absurdity never ends: being met by the police and by torture in their home countries; women and children who stayed behind in Switzerland; lives that cannot return to normal after years of absence; desires and attempts to return to Europe...
“Migrants and Travellers” Award, African Film Festival of Verona, 2013
Follow by a discussion with the CIRE.
Preceded by a screening of the short film Escort (19’) by Guido Hendrikx. Immersion into a Dutch police unit in charge of deporting foreigners: the officers undergo training on continuing to feel human in a job that no longer is.