- Director: Maggie Peren
- Country: Germany
- Year: 2011
- Length: 95 minutes
- Genre: Drama
- Screening Times: Saturday, March 3rd, 2012 at 8 pm
Co-presented with Romero House
Synopsis
Located off the coast of northwest Africa, the Canary Islands are both a tourist paradise and a purgatory for refugees. Border guard José (Alex González) has developed a salty crust of cynicism about his work, but his weary attitude is put to the test when he encounters Nathalie (Sabine Timoteo), a German tourist assisting a boatload of refugees she discovered landing on the coast. When one of the refugees, a Congolese man named Zola (Hubert Koundé), is placed in an internment camp with his son, Nathalie determines to help them escape—but the two soon find themselves in yet another precarious situation, in which they are dependent on nefarious smugglers. Writer-director Maggie Peren’s compelling moral drama poses challenging questions about the imperatives and limits of individual responsibility, with each of the characters painfully uncertain as to whether their actions will effect positive change or make matters worse. When the film ends, those questions are passed on to us.
Director’s Bio
Maggie Peren was born in Heidelberg, Germany. She studied literature at the LMU in Munich. She is a prolific screenwriter, actress and director. Her films include the short Hypochondriac (05) and the features Stellengswechsel (07) and Color of the Ocean (11).
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