Escape to Nowhere

by Carmen Té
  • 2008 HFF Munich

    Synopsis

    Escape to Nowhere shows the desperate life conditions Migrants from Africa experience in Sicily, Italy and Europe. They live in an irregular camp in tends, cook on a selfmade archaic fire, work on the potato fields for a little money that they have to share with their life companions who did not get any even a bad paid daily job, they are medical assisted by some volunteers of Medicine sans Frontiere like in Africa.  Most of the protagonists understand that it is very difficult to change their life in Europe. Through Moubarak words we learn about their way of thinking and about the distance between the storytelling at home and the reality in the "exile" land:
    "People returning to Africa told us Europeans are racists. I didn't believe them. Some believed them, others didn't. I always have to see for myself, with my own eyes... Now that I've had my own experiences I know they were right. If I go back it won't be easy, either. But what can I do? It's God's decision."

    Festivals

    2008
    Boundless – WDR, France Television, NpS, EBU, Unesco
    DOK.fest Munich 
    Unsichtbare Welten – Menschen ohne Aufenthaltsstatus in Deutschland - Gasteig, München
    Unabhängiges Dokumentarfilmfest Osnabrück in Wettbewerb
    Open Eyes – Filme für Menschenrechtsbildung Nürnberg
    2009
    Evangelische Versöhnungskirche KZ - Gedenkstätte Dachau 2009
    Sole e Luna – Film Festival Palermo
    nominated for First Steps Award
    2010
     O' Curt Film Festival Neapel
    nominated German Human Rights Prize