Juliea Bennett

Hauntingly brilliant, initially disconcerting in its lack of a clear time setting, only to metamorphose into a cogent reflection upon the current plight of and attitudes towards refugees globally. This movie has resonance. It demands that we not only think about the modern refugee in the context of fascism; and particularly the parallels with Nazism and the Holocaust, but that we also live and especially feel the refugee experience: the loneliness, the stress, the uncertainty and most powerfully of all, the hopelessness of statelessness. While much of the rest of the world turns its back; not so much a deliberate rejection of the refugee, but not seeing or feeling because of their "otherness"; their invisibility fosters complete lack of empathy and compassion in others . This movie has troubled me, wormed its way into my soul. It has not left me since I saw it 2 days ago. It is possibly one of the greatest movies I have ever seen.