With a group of migrants, Director Kaveh Bakhtiari shared a tiny basement apartment in Athens and their life in existential insecurity for a year. "I’ve been lucky enough to become a European citizen. So I filmed what they lived through each day by living and sleeping in that overpopulated Athenian haven filled with fears, with laughter, with smothered screams, where lives sometimes went over the edge forever, obeying no other law than that of chance." (Director Kaveh Bakhtiari) In Athens, Amir, an Iranian immigrant, has a modest flat which has become a place of transit for migrants who like him have chosen to leave their country. But Greece is only a stop-over, all of them hoping to reach other Western countries. They find themselves stuck at Amir's, hoping for ID documents, contacts and the smuggler to whom they might entrust their destiny as clandestines.
An abandoned house in Athens has become a temporary home for refugees hoping to continue their journey.
With a group of migrants, Director Kaveh Bakhtiari shared a tiny basement apartment in Athens and their life in existential insecurity for a year.
"I’ve been lucky enough to become a European citizen. So I filmed what they lived through each day by living and sleeping in that overpopulated Athenian haven filled with fears, with laughter, with smothered screams, where lives sometimes went over the edge forever, obeying no other law than that of chance." (Director Kaveh Bakhtiari)
In Athens, Amir, an Iranian immigrant, has a modest flat which has become a place of transit for migrants who like him have chosen to leave their country. But Greece is only a stop-over, all of them hoping to reach other Western countries. They find themselves stuck at Amir's, hoping for ID documents, contacts and the smuggler to whom they might entrust their destiny as clandestines.