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All against all

REFUGEES: Unity is pulverized, everyone just thinks of managing on their own, surviving, tearing up an extra bite of food, a place in the food queue or the telephone queue.
Kurt Sweeney -

The Art of Escape: A European Nightmare

Migrant: The Fazili family are migrants. They record mobile phones of their dangerous journey from Afghanistan via the migrant route in the Balkans and to an uncertain future in Europe.
Carmen Gray -

Where were your revolutionaries, Karl?

PHILOSOPHY: The documentary Passion – Between Revolt and Resignation reflects on man's willingness to engage in his time and to revolt.
Carmen Gray -

The earth accounts for the politics of capitalism

URBANIZATION: The Hottest August holds up a mirror that reveals the underlying anxiety of modern survival strategy.
Carmen Gray -

Can Islam be modernized?

REFORM: A thorough presentation and discussion of the work that is being done to reform Islam, in Norway and internationally.
Kjetil Korslund -

Fears of fear

border: With or without fences, Europe will have to take part in the constantly changing world outside.
Astra Soldiers -

About the Migration Filmmaker

MIGRATION: In Lettre à Theo ("Letter to Theo"), director Élodie Lélu explores the visions and work of the late Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos related to the refugee crisis in Greece.
Sevara Pan -

From the front in the war on refugees

FLYGTNINGEKRISEN: Chinese artist and filmmaker Ai Weiwei follows up his documentary Human Flow with a report from the war zones awaiting refugees in Europe. The Rest is about the millions who came to seek shelter but did not find it.
Nina Trige Andersen -

New borders in Europe

CONTROL: Today's European refugee policy is no longer about respect for free movement but about control.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

Europe's perfected crime

The documentary Eldorado addresses Europe's cynical treatment of refugees and reminds us that Europeans themselves were on the run for scarce 100 years ago.
Dieter Wieczorek -

Is it a crime to save lives?

France sentenced its own citizens to prison for assisting people in need. Europe is letting the tangled remains of its morals and ethics drown in the Mediterranean. Libre follows a man who is protesting.
Dieter Wieczorek -

Children on the run

On the border between Greece and Macedonia, the Al Bakri family lives in a makeshift tent camp. They have fled from the hell of the war in Syria, to the hell of refugee existence in Europe. What do you do when the only thing you own is hope?
Kaisa Ytterhaug -

The fake refugee

Theater man Kristian Husted goes undercover as a refugee, but unfortunately gets too little out of the transformation. 
Steffen Moestrup -

Does anyone miss 206 children?

In 2017, 206 children disappeared from Norwegian asylum centers, and we still do not know where they are. 
oystein@press.no -

Rehumanization of refugees

With a subdued and unobtrusive approach, director and anthropologist Laurent Van Lancker lets the residents of the now-destroyed camp at Calais describe their separated community in their own words.
willemienwsanders@gmail.com -

Europe's self-harm 

It is dusk in the West. But the morning redness brings light, according to Bernd Ulrich.
Ranveig Eckhoff -
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