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FLIGHT OF THE REFUGEES
Directed by ELIAS MATAR

Date
September 10, 2019
About Project
DIRECTOR
ELIAS MATAR
COUNTRY
USA
RUNNING TIME
40 mins
YEAR
2015
LANGUAGE
English
ABOUT THE FILM
Syrian-American film director, Elias Matar, left Los Angeles to travel to the Serbian-Croatia border to understand their situation and show solidarity with refugees travelling from Greece to Germany, often on foot. Matar wants to bring the tragedy close to us and this raw footage of six days of a harrowing journey with the hope of asylum in Europe at the end certainly succeeds in bringing the viewer into empathic connection with a few of the individuals within this historic migration.