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Migrant films screened at Encounters
Among the packed programmes at the 21st Encounters short film and animation festival is a timely selection entitled Strangers in a Strange Land. These six provocative shorts explore issues of cultural identity, displacement and the return of the far right. Here’s the line-up in full:
Aissa
A drama about a Congolese illegal immigrant in France. The authorities believe her to be over 18, so they give her a physical examination.
Over
A crime scene recorded in nine wide shots. But what’s actually happened: a murder, a hit-and-run or an accident?
Listen
A woman in a burqua arrives at a Copenhagen police station to file a complaint against her abusive husband. But the translator assigned to her seems unwilling to convey the real meaning of her words.
S
A frank, London-set drama about the relationship between an Eastern European sex worker and her pimp.
Shipwreck
An Eritrean survivor of a 2013 sinking that claimed the lives of more than 360 refugees returns to the Italian island of Lampedusa to recall his nightmarish experience in a graveyard of shipwrecks.
Patriot
An 11-year-old girl from a small English rural community meets a boy from the forbidden part of town against the backdrop of simmering racial tensions.
The Strangers in a Strange Land programme, certificate 15, screens on Thursday September 17 at 10am at the Watershed. Encounters runs from Tuesday 15-Sunday 20 September. Go here for more on the festival.
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