FESTIVALS: * One World International Film Festival (Prague 2, Czech Republic) * Antenna International Documentary Film Festival (Sydney, Australia) *CPH:DOX (Denmark) * Docaviv (Tel Aviv, Israel) * Dok.Fest Münich (Germany) * Sheffield Doc/Fest (UK) * TRT (Oran/Ankara, Turkey) * Doc Edge (Auckland, New Zealand) * Encounters South African International Documentary Festival (Cape Town, South Africa) * Docville / Fonk (Belgium) * Movies that Matter Foundation (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) * Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival (USA) * DocumentaMadrid (Spain) * DMZ DOCS (Bucheon-si, South Korea) * Human Rights Arts & Film Festival (HRAFF) (Melbourne, Australia) * True/False Film Fest (Columbia, MO, USA) * Biografilm Festival | International Celebration of lives (Bologna, Italy) * Crossing Europe Film Festival (Linz, Austria) * Docs Against Gravity Film Festival (Poland) * Montclair Film Festival (Montclair, NJ , USA) * CineDoc-Tbilisi - Documentary film festival (Georgia ) * Panorama du Film Européen (Cairo, Egypt) * True Stories: New Non-Fiction from Europe (New York , USA) * Docville / Fonk (Leuven, Belgium) * Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, USA) * DocedgeKolkata (India) * DocuTIFF (Tirana, Albania) * Freiburger film forum (Germany) * Norwegian Film Institute (Oslo, Norway) * SalinaDocFest (Palermo, Italy) * Palic European film Festival (Subotica, Serbia) * Guanajuato International Film Festival Expresion En Corto (San Miguel de Allende, Gto., Mexico) * Split Film Festival (Croatia) * Camden International Film Festival (USA) * Message to Man International Film Festival (St Petersburg, Russia) * Manaki Brothers International Film Festival (Skopje, Macedonia) * Bergen International Film Festival (Norway) * Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival (Germany) * Milwaukee Film Festival (USA) * Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (USA) * IndieCork Festival (Ireland) * DokuBaku IDFF (Baku, Azerbaijan) AWARDS: "For its innovative form and cuttingly intelligent engagement with the key moral issue facing the world today. Stranger in Paradise is packed with argument and information as well as being deeply affecting. It stayed with each of us, and we imagine it will trigger vigorous and fresh debate. It carries within it the possibility of reigniting our relationship to the concept of inalienable rights and deserves to be seen as widely as possible." * Audiance Award - Biografilm Festival * Best Film Hera Nuovi Talenti - Biografilm Festival | Stranger in Paradise
In a classroom in Sicily, just inside the walls of Fortress Europe, recently arrived refugees receive lessons from a teacher (Valentijn Dhaenens) who has some rather unbalanced traits. One moment he mercilessly rejects the refugees – the next, mollifyingly, he embraces them. Operating at the intersection of documentary and fiction, Stranger in Paradise investigates the power relations between Europe and refugees. Europe is represented by a teacher who drags his class of refugees down into his despair. A plea that borders on the immoral; a welcome charged with a guilt complex; and the compromise between these, made policy: Stranger in Paradise is an unflinching film essay on the mechanisms through which Europe tackles the refugees’ desire for happiness. Director's statement : GUIDO HENDRIKX REVIEWS: "Stranger in Paradise: A blunt and honest look at Europe and refugees." - by Vladan Petkovic - Cineuropa ''The stylised doc weighs up the right and left views on E.U. immigration then sheds light on some of the harsh realities'' - Damon Wise - Variety ''Stranger in Paradise, which opens Dutch documentary festival IDFA, is, quite literally, a classroom exercise which assembles would-be migrants in a Lampedusa detention centre and gives them – and the viewer – a brutally direct lesson in the realities of European refugee politics. '' - by Fionnuala Halligan, Chief Film Critic - ScreenDaily PRESS IMAGES: TRAILER : To rent (72-hour streaming period) or buy (stream and download anytime) this film. Go to : www. Vimeo.com |
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