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At the outskirts of the Tel Aviv “bubble” a play is enacted nightly, with hundreds of work-seeking migrants and asylum seekers waiting to enter the Immigration Offices, their gateway to a better life. By midnight, hundreds of people have lined up, most of them Ukrainian. Most of them won’t get in anyway, and even the few that do will go through a procedure that doesn’t provide much chance of success. Backwards encapsulates the refugee crisis into a single night: exhausted multitudes of people patiently persisting in their effort to begin a new life—as the rest of the world sleeps.
Running Time: | 16 min. |
Subject(s): | Human Rights, Immigration and Migration, Labor, Society |
Language(s): | English, Hebrew, Russian |
Subtitles: | English |
Director(s): | |
Producer(s): | Efrat Cohen, Hilla Shitrit |
Cinematographer: | Dana Gelman |
Editor(s): | Dana Gelman |
Production Company: | Gaudeamus Productions |