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GRAMNet Film Series Launch
Wednesday 14th October 2015 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
The following film will be shown, accompanied by forums and Q&A for everyone to share their views and thoughts in a friendly and supportive atmosphere.
Days of Hope
Denmark (2013)| Director: Ditte Haarløv Johnsen | 72 mins
‘That sea… It’s not a small thing. Everything happened on that boat, everything…’
Every year thousands of people from the African continent try to get to Europe. Leaving everything behind, they promise their loved ones that they’ll make it to the other side, that they’ll provide for them, that things will get better.
In ‘Days of Hope’ we meet Harouna, Thelma and Austin. Harouna has left his girlfriend and their newborn baby behind and is stuck halfway to Europe in the desert town of Nouadhibou, hoping for happiness. Thelma was left behind in Ghana as a child. Reunited with her mother in Denmark 12 years later, she finds her mother living a very different life than she’d imagined. Austin has made it across the Mediterranean to the camps of Sicily then all the way to Copenhagen, where he survives by collecting bottles on the streets.
With rawness and dignity, ‘Days of Hope’ meets the people hidden by migration statistics and headlines about bodies washed up on Europe’s shores.