May They Rest in Revolt (Figures of War) (2010); The Fragments (My Mouth, My Revolt, My Name) (2011)

Directed by Sylvain George

This FIPRESCI prize winner at the 2011 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI) leaves policy debates about European immigration aside in favor of a piercing, immersive encounter with the migrant experience itself.  French documentarian Sylvain George spent three years recording in black and white the daily grind of the inhabitants, all men, from the Middle East and North Africa, of a makeshift refugee camp in the French port of Calais.  By turns poetic and blunt, George’s montage connects us intimately to bodies and voices battered by waves of hunger, fear, anger, hope, boredom and isolation—culminating in the camp’s destruction by police.

Producer: Sylvain George. Cinematographer: Sylvain George. Editor: Sylvain George.

Blu-ray, b/w, in French, Arabic and English with English subtitles, 150 min.