Les Arrivants . The Arrivals
Verzio FF Arriving on the shores of France is merely the beginning of a labyrinthine journey for more than 50,000 refugees seeking asylum through the municipal reception center in Paris each year. Cultures collide as refugees from the Congo, Chechnya, Sri Lanka and Ethiopia meet with well-intentione...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | English French |
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Les Films d'ici
2009
France |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:4726fe36-1eeb-4ec0-b094-51d01514f244 |
| Summary: | Verzio FF
Arriving on the shores of France is merely the beginning of a labyrinthine journey for more than 50,000 refugees seeking asylum through the municipal reception center in Paris each year. Cultures collide as refugees from the Congo, Chechnya, Sri Lanka and Ethiopia meet with well-intentioned but overwhelmed European social workers. Asylum seekers hoping to leave behind a life filled with war and famine, persecution and poverty find themselves forced to comply with a bureaucratic logic that resembles another kind of torment, and their social workers, faced with dwindling reserves of options and patience, are at risk of collapsing under the sheer number of new applicants. The film investigates CAFDA, the municipal reception centre for asylum-seeking families, by following the daily life of the asylum seekers and simultaneously exposes the persecution, political oppression and human misery outside Europe. |
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| Published: | 2009 |