The refugee issue remains very complicated. The experience of time and space of young men who dream and those who experience a harsh reality.
FRI 19.03 16:00 SPHINX
SAT 20.03 13:00 FILM-PLATEAU

Atlantiques
Mati Diop, FR/SN, 2009, video, 15'
By nightfall, around a campfire, a young man from Dakar tells his friends about his clandestine odyssey.

Not Waving, But Drowning
Elias Grootaers, BE, 2009, video, 53'
The film materialises the experience of Indian refugees during their arrest and detention by the harbour police in Zeebruges, Belgium. Within the tense, haunted context of the harbour and the seaside we slowly lose all sense of time and place together with them.