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GRAMNet Film Series Close and Refugee Festival
Thursday 16th June 2016 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
In observance of World Refugee Day.
Series Close and Refugee Festival
The audience is warmly invited to join us in the CCA cafe following the screening for a drink and to continue our informal discussion session.
Transit Zone
Scotland (2015) | Director: Frederik Subei | 32 mins
‘Transit Zone’ is a character-driven documentary about refugees in Calais trying to cross the border to Britain. Life is harsh in the middle of the winter in makeshift camps in the small harbour town. The longer we follow the daily routine of life in Calais the more we learn about the past and dreams for the future of our characters. They are determined and full of hope to make it one day onto one of the lorries leading to the UK—and hopefully a better life.
A photographic exhibition by Iman Tajik accompanies Transit Zone, for more details visit www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk.
If I Were You
Scotland (2015) | Director: Colin Morris | 12 mins
Perhaps borders can become invisible… but surely people can’t. A short documentary about the hidden lives of asylum seekers in Ireland.
I grew up as 2nd generation Irish—a ‘plastic paddy’ one of the millions scattered across the globe. Ireland was always the place I wanted to call home but couldn’t. One day I learnt of a system that is holding and restricting the lives of people who have claimed asylum in Ireland. Over 4,300 people live in this confined system known as ‘Direct Provision’, many for 4-5 years or more, for some as long as 10-11 years, waiting to hear the outcome of their application. I wanted to learn what it could be like to live in Ireland within a system like this.