Futureland

In the organizer's words:

What makes a teenager embark alone on a perilous journey to an unknown land? What situation leads parents to send their child to another, distant country for safety? And what does this say about the world, the society we live in, that millions of minors risk their lives in search of a future? Fifty percent of the refugees in Europe are minors and many of them are unaccompanied. Children and adolescents come to Europe to ensure their survival and are confronted with a system that protects them only temporarily. According to asylum law, unaccompanied minor refugees cannot be deported. In other words, they are safe until the age of eighteen. But what future do young people have if they have to fear growing up? Futureland is a science fiction documentary theater piece with young people between 14 and 18 who have come to Germany alone from Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Guinea, Bangladesh. They have crossed the world on foot, by boat or hidden in a truck and now live in Berlin, surrounded by social workers*, youth welfare offices, guardians and other young people of different cultures. They are teenagers who have landed in a new world whose rules they do not know. They have a grace period: they can stay here, but they don't know how long. They have to constantly prove that they deserve asylum, a chance at school or a place in a circle of friends. They are between cultures, between childhood and adulthood, between past, present and future, searching for their own identity. And, they have already experienced more than many of us have in a lifetime. With Mamadou Allou Diallo, Ahmad Azrati, Fabiya Bhuiyan, Mohamed Haj Younis, Bashar Kanan, Sagal Odowa, May Saada, Sarah Safi SEE TRAILER Premiere on 18/October 2019 A co-production with Ruhrtriennale and supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundes. With the kind support of XENION - Psychosoziale Hilfen für politisch Verfolgte e.V. Photo: Esra Rotthoff Stage photos: Ute Langkafel This content has been machine translated.