Everything alright (Borbàla Nagy), 13'

Alpár has his first working day at the 175 km long border between Hungary and Serbia, where he is supposed to save his country from refugees.  While trying to understand the customs of the border guards, he is confronted with the reality he needs to adapt to. A reality in which for the sake of self-protection, strangers from the other side are deprived of their human qualities. In this merciless microcosm he has to leave his humaneness behind.

Midnight Traveler (Hassan Fazili), 87'

In 2015, after Hassan Fazili’s documentary Peace aired on Afghan national television, the Taliban assassinated the film’s main subject and put a price on Hassan’s head. Hassan looked at his wife and his daughters, and he knew they had to flee their home. Over the course of their multi-year saga in search of safety, the family grasped onto the only means they had to assert control over their situation: their camera-phones. The whole family shot this autobiographical film, which began when they sought and were rejected for refugee protection and follows them along the notorious Balkan smuggling route. As they experienced increasingly degrading circumstances, the family latched on to filmmaking as a way to not just survive, but retain their humanity.

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