Kinofilm + Gespräch / HARRAGA - Those who burn their lives / CARACAN Leipzig

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CARACAN / Leipzig
08.08.2024, 9 pm
FOR FREE

Film + discussion with team and protagonist in cooperation with Globale Leipzig

Imad, Nourdine, Walid and Hamza live in a stone cave under a lighthouse in Melilla. Every night, the Moroccan teenagers break into the nearby harbor. There they try to climb unnoticed onto ships
that sail to the Spanish mainland. They and dozens of other children have formed their own society under the protection of the rocks. Augsburg director Benjamin Rost documents the impressive lives of the young people over a period of five years. The film's title describes the widespread practice of illegal North African immigrants burning their papers and thus their identity when arrested by the police. A gripping documentary that offers an insight into an
unknown world.

HARRAGA was nominated for the German Documentary Film Award and for the German Documentary Music Award at the Dok.Fest Munich.