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TWO AT THE BORDER

TWO AT THE BORDER
30 minutes, 2013
Réalisation : Tuna KAPTAN (Allemagne, Turquie) et Felicitas SONVILLA (Autriche)
Production : HFF University of Television and Film Munich (Allemagne)

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Two young men, a Syrian and a Palestinian, secretly smuggle refugees into Europe. Based in the Turkish city of Edirne, they help illegal immigrants move across to Greece. Although the Turkish side of the border is porous, EU support means the Greek side is better controlled: heat-seeking cameras, fences, coastguard vessels. The young people group together, move – sometimes they succeed, sometimes they don’t.

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L’ESCALE

L’ESCALE
100 minutes, 2013
Direction : Kaveh BAKHTIARI (Switzerland, Iran)
Production : Louise Productions (Switzerland), Kaléo Films (France), Radio Télévision Suisse (Switzerland)

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In Athens, the modest flat of Amir, an Iranian immigrant, has become a transit point for migrants who, like him, have chosen to leave their country.
But Greece is only a stepping stone, all of them want to go to other Western countries.
But they find themselves stuck there, in Amir’s flat, waiting for papers, contacts and the smuggler to whom, maybe, they’ll have to entrust their destiny …

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