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Short abstract

This fictional documentary was created through a collaborative process with contemporary migrants who embody and appropriate European emigration stories of the past and combine them with their own migratory experiences.

Long abstract

This fictional documentary was created through a collaborative process with contemporary migrants who embody and appropriate European emigration stories of the past and combine them with their own migratory experiences. A poetic and political film, in which autobiographical tales, archives and dreams of the past and the present, blend to evoke a sensory and epic experience.

Locked and hidden in a truck, eight migrants try to survive the hardships of a long illegal journey across the borders. In the darkness they exchange their life stories. The accounts of their own journeys intertwine and overlap with biographical stories from a history of European emigration. The resonances between past and present narratives reveal that the history of Europe has always been marked by migration and flight.

We OTHERS is a film that is both poetic and political. Collaboratively staged with the protagonists, autobiographical narratives, archival footage, and dreams of past and present come together to create a sensory and evocative experience.