Films by Kersting Nickig

Germany 2009
by Kersting Nickig

A film on the effects European refugee policies have on four refugees of the conflict in Chechnya and their families: "As- Salamu Alaykum, Europe" is how the diary of the journalist, Ali (39), begins as he waits in Poland for a decision to be made on his asylum request. In his smoke-filled room at the refugee home he has more than enough time to record his observations and thoughts on both Europe and his own crisis of identity in exile. Wacha (50) has been granted asylum as a political activist