Iva Radivojevic : 2014
The Mediterranean island Cyprus, that forms an easy access to Europe, is a favourite destination for people smugglers. The tensions caused by a massive flood of immigrants can be felt strongly here. This essay in five parts offers a series of vignettes, guided by the filmmaker's curious eye and personal reflections. Through the people she encounters along the way, the film dissects the experience of asylum seekers in Cyprus: a PLO activist and exile from Iraq is denied asylum within 15 minutes; neo-nazi fundamentalists roam the streets in an attack on Muslim migrants; activists and academics organise an antifascist rally and clash with the neo-nazis; 195 migrants drown in the Mediterranean. Poetically photographed and rendered, the film passionately weaves the themes of migration, tolerance, identity and belonging. Iva Radivojevic's first documentary feature premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014.
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