Pole of Inaccessibility: A Photographers Perspective, The
PEOPLE & CULTURE 1 x 15'
PEOPLE & CULTURE
on the bride's side
A Palestinian poet and an Italian journalist meet five Palestinians and Syrians in Milan who entered Europe via the Italian island of Lampedusa after fleeing the war in Syria. They decide to help them complete their journey to Sweden – and hopefully avoid getting themselves arrested as traffickers – by faking a wedding.
Duration
1 x 60' or 1 x 98'
Production Company
Gina Films di Antonie Augugliaro & C.
YOP
2014
Definitions
SD HD
Awards
Golden Prize at the Al Jazeera Film Festival 2015
Grand Prix as Best Documentary at the Oran International Film Festival 2015
Special Prize at the Arab Film Festival of Malmo
Best Documentary Award at the Arab Film Festival of San Francisco
Best Documentary Award, Terra di Cinema Film Festival, France
Grand Prize of Geneva, FIFDH Film Festival, Switzerland
Episode Information
A Palestinian poet and an Italian journalist meet five Palestinians and Syrians in Milan who entered Europe via the Italian island of Lampedusa after fleeing the war in Syria. They decide to help them complete their journey to Sweden – and hopefully avoid getting themselves arrested as traffickers – by faking a wedding. With a Palestinian friend dressed up as the bride and a dozen or so Italian and Syrian friends as wedding guests, they cross halfway over Europe on a four-day journey of three thousand kilometers. This emotionally charged journey not only brings out the stories and hopes and dreams of the five Palestinians and Syrians and their rather special traffickers, but also reveals an unknown side of Europe – a transnational, supportive and irreverent Europe that ridicules the laws and restrictions of the European fortress in a kind of masquerade which is no other than the direct filming of something that really took place on the road from Milan to Stockholm from the 14th to the 18th of November 2013. http://www.iostoconlasposa.com/