Border Crossings Double Bill: We the Emigrants/Long Distance

WE THE EMIGRANTS (LA TRAVERSÉE)
Director: Elizabeth Leuvrey. France/Algeria 2006. 55 mins. French and Arabic with English subtitles.

This compelling documentary focuses on one particular border
crossing, that between France and Algeria. The film is woven
from conversations on the ferry between Marseille and Algiers – a space that is neither one place nor the other, allowing explorations of complex identities formed through a fraught colonial history and more than a hundred years of North African immigration to France.

➜ We are delighted to host an online Q&A with director Elizabeth Leuvrey following the screening.

LONG DISTANCE
Director: Moritz Siebert. UK 2009. 28 mins. English and Amharic with English subtitles.

Ethopian runner Abiyot, formerly a promising member of his national team, tries to make a new life for himself in the USA. Ashe pounds the pavements of New York, this documentary shows a precarious existence in which Abiyot is always on the move.

Print source: Alice Films / National Film and Television School