Night Falls on Europe, 2016
In January 2016, in northern Greece, the borders closed, leaving 46,000 children, women and men, traumatized by war and exile, blockaded in Idomeni, in the middle of winter. Left in the rain and cold, in the middle of garbage and feces in front of the closed doors of Europe.
There is no shortage of images that testify to these situations without provoking any change in the policies that make the shame of Europe. Public opinions disarmed, are certainly affected but not enough for the leaders to take account of the impulses of solidarity that can be expressed. Worse, they condemn them.
The images of shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea that we have faced over the past few years unfortunately do not change nothing more. We saw it with the sudden, ephemeral, awareness of the horror following the publication of the image of Aylan Kurdi, child dead on September 2, 2015, lying on a beach in Turkey.
Faced with the rise of populism, it is high time to re-sensitize the public to the reality of brutality, of the unbearable trauma experienced by these thousands of women, men and children, wandering on the roads of exile.
It is our humanity that is played out in the European project’s ability to protect them.
Année : 2017
Réalisation : Samuel Bollendorff
Co-production : Les Films du Bilboquet et Pictanovo / Les Films du Bilboquet and Pictanovo
Partenariats : Amnesty International, Nikon, CNC, Agnes B.
Voix off : Catherine Deneuve
Durée : 14 minutes 30 secondes
« La nuit tombe sur l’Europe » propose un regard différent sur ces parcours de femmes, d’hommes et d’enfants contraints de prendre la route de l’exil pour fuir les violences des conflits ou de la persécution.
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