The Borders of Paradise (Nicolás Romero Silva, 2023) + Q&A and talk with City Rights Radio

Nicolás Romero Silva | 2023 | NL | 78’ | EN subs

For this evening Filmhuis Cavia teams up with some local actors to talk about Fortress Europe and its borders. We will start the night with a screening of The Borders of Paradise. This independently produced documentary tells the story of the young men who have fled genocide, violent militias, and have risked their lives crossing the sea to reach the perceived safety of Europe. However, when we find them, in the town of Ventimiglia, at the border of Italy and France, they have ended up in a trap of destitution and marginalization. Unable to gain a foothold in Italian society, while also getting repeatedly pushed back by French border police, they are suffering a ‘slow death’, as one of them puts it.

The viewing of this harrowing film will then be followed by a Q&A with the director, Nicolás Romero Silva, and with Riccardo Biggi, from Stichting Here to Support. Riccardo Biggi will bring a first hand testimony of other borders, including the ones migrants find when they finally get to their country of destination, which he gained when working as the director, script writer and producer of Migration Chronicles, a podcast about border politics created by City Rights Radio as part of a collaboration between Here to Support and Display Europe.

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