ON THE BORDER

Documentary - A, CH, D 2024 - 103' - OmeU

Director: Gerald Igor Hauzenberger, Gabriela Schild

"The plastic sticks to the trees, just like the West sticks to the Sahel," says the mayor of Agadez, alluding to the Sahara littered with plastic bags on his doorstep. In the city in northern Niger, the EU has tried for years to prevent migrants from continuing their journey to the Mediterranean at an early stage. Gerald Hauzenberger and Gabriele Schild accompanied people who live in the traditional caravan town. How do they see the situation? In the end, the presence of the West proves to be nowhere near as permanent as assumed.

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