Agenda

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• The Blue House - Alpha is an artist living in the Calais Jungle refugee encampment, where he has transformed his self-built cabin into an artwork. He calmly continues building and drawing, and becomes a local celebrity in this no man’s land.
• Fire at Sea - This urgently topical film shows the intersection of two worlds: everyday life on Lampedusa, and refugees arriving full of fear and anxiety on this small European island, so deceptively close to the African coast.
• Il mio corpo - Fact and fiction blur in this sensitive film about a young scrap metal collector and an African boat refugee living in Sicily. Their lives turn out to be more similar than they might have imagined.
• Jano & Shiro, a Brother’s Journey- An experimentally filmed account of the far-reaching consequences of Dutch asylum policy for Jano and Shiro, two brothers who fled from Syria. With music and editing at times reminiscent of a video clip.
• Made for Walking - Wading through knee-high snow in the mountains separating France and Italy, young West-Africans venture clandestinely across the border at night. Then they hand back the boots they received from volunteers so that the next person can cross.
• Nemesis - Zurich’s old railway station is making way for a giant prison, soon to be filled with rejected refugees. Their testimonies turn the spectacle of transformation, shot entirely from the filmmaker’s window, into a vision for our times.
• Nenad - As an emigrant, Mladen Bundalo still feels drawn to his native country, no matter how much Bosnia and Herzegovina has changed. As he follows the life of Nenad, who is also about to emigrate, he explains his dilemmas with poetic precision.
• Option Zero - A lesser known Cuban escape route to the United States runs via the rainforests of Guyana and Colombia to Central America. This poignant portrait follows a group of Cubans for whom living in their native country is no longer an option.
• Purple Sea - A boat sinks off the coast of Lesbos with Syrian artist Amel Alzakout onboard. She shoots dizzying footage from the water: dangling legs and almost nothing to cling onto. An utterly gripping experience.
• Seahorse - Fleeing from IS five years ago, Hanan crossed the Mediterranean in a rubber dinghy that almost sank. Now she has become a swimming teacher, using this newfound skill as her way of dealing with the traumatic memories.
• Silent Voice - Khavaj, a young Chechnyan martial arts fighter, is hiding in Belgium because of his sexual orientation. The traumas he’s been through caused him to lose his voice. Cut off from his family and far from home, his only option is to reinvent himself.
• Silent Voice - Khavaj, a young Chechnyan martial arts fighter, is hiding in Belgium because of his sexual orientation. The traumas he’s been through caused him to lose his voice. Cut off from his family and far from home, his only option is to reinvent himself.
• Welcome to Chechnya - Russian activists take unimaginable risks to smuggle persecuted LGBTQ+ people out of Chechnya. In this chilling documentary thriller, David France films the most dangerous moments of their escapes.

https://www.idfa.nl/nl/

Hoe moet een betere samenwerking met Afrikaanse landen zorgen voor een humaner migratiebeleid? Met het Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, Barbara Rijks (IOM), Joost Klarenbeek (BuZa) en hoogleraar Leo Lucassen.

Tickets & livestream

BORDERS OF FEAR aims to shed light on wrongdoing in the context of migration by investigating the reasons and practice of rising borders and walls, leading to cultural and physical violence, persecution and human rights violations. The conference focuses on the discourse of borders both at a concrete level, and as a strategy of cultural violence on the part of right-wing propaganda. On the one hand, we analyse the closure of frontiers, creation of refugee camps, escalation of security; on the other hand, we investigate how border policing and the datafication of society are affecting the narrative around migrants and refugees in Europe and the west.

https://www.disruptionlab.org/borders-of-fear

Voorbereiding JBZ-Raad 3-4dec
https://www.tweedekamer.nl/debat_en_vergadering/commissievergaderingen/d...

Het is momenteel nog niet duidelijk of deze wake met of zonder publiek plaatsvindt.

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Tijdens de bijeenkomst vertellen migranten over de omstandigheden waaronder ze werken en wonen in Nederland. Welke moeilijkheden komen deze krachtige mensen dagelijks tegen? Maar ook waar zijn ze trots op en waar zien zij mogelijkheden?

https://www.fnv.nl/nieuwsbericht/algemeen-nieuws/2020/11/save-the-date-10-december-migrantendag

Amsterdam. De stad waar iedereen mee mag doen, zelfs zonder papieren. Waar grof geld verdiend wordt in de schaduw, zonder vergunningen, verblijfsdocumenten of contracten. De stad knijpt een oogje dicht, want ongedocumenteerden zijn ook gewoon Amsterdammers. Duizenden, wellicht tienduizenden schoonmakers, kappers, oppassers, afwassers en klussers werken zonder papieren, in legale sectoren.

Dat gaat goed, zolang we de risico’s voor lief nemen. Full-time zwoegen voor vijf euro per uur, duizenden euro’s loon niet uitbetaald krijgen of een woekerprijs betalen voor je illegale huurwoning. Het zou zomaar eens realiteit kunnen zijn voor de schoonmaker bij je thuis, de kok van het restaurantje bij jou om de hoek, degene die je manicure doet of je huis schildert.

https://debalie.nl/programma/zwoegen-in-de-schaduw-theater-slotstuk-15-12-2020/