Amir Borenstein
Starting with what seems to be a trivial security check procedure at the entrance to the Tel Aviv airport, the film explores a more deeply engraved border, albeit an invisible one, a border that marks our oral cavity and defines the sounds and words we can pronounce.
This documentary follows a group of Belgian citizens in Brussels as they search for the funding necessary to open a facility to allow homeless people to have a shower and regain some dignity.
At a motorway rest-area, somewhere in Belgium, four young Sudanese sneak into a truck in the hope of reaching the next day the other side of the Channel. Condensed in this dark and cut off huis-clos, they spend the coming hours waiting, in a mixture of hope and fear, just like their clandestine existence.
