Type: Event
Location: Kalabhavan
City: Trivandrum
Date: Tue, 2011/08/09 – 2:30pm
Price: Registration fee
Category: Film screening
Location: Kalabhavan
City: Trivandrum
Date: Tue, 2011/08/09 – 2:30pm
Price: Registration fee
Category: Film screening
WELCOME/ LOIRET Philippe/ 2009/ 1h50/ Drama
will be screened in the 16th Trivandrum International Film Festival.
It’s the portrait of a 17 year old Iraki refugee, Bilal, who winds up in Calais, and having got this far (4000 kilometers on foot or hitchhiking) considers it a minor detail to stow away on a truck or ferry, or steal a dinghy, and make landfall in England to be reunited with Mîna, the girl he loves.
The harsh rules of 21st century Europe and high-tech CO2 scanners brings this project to a halt and Bilal is forced to adopt a different, much riskier approach: learn to swim, and then swim the Channel.
