It was while driving on the motorway that I discovered a strange refugee camp inhabited by gypsies from Romania. An improvised encampment in the middle of the trees, stuck between the lanes of the A10. For a second, I thought I was having a flashback. But it is only the current version of a never-ending story, that of people who are forced to leave everything behind to escape poverty. I wanted to understand the motives behind that exodus, where those people came from, who those those “strange strangers”, much like the Portuguese and the Algerians had been in the projects on the outskirts of Paris, were. By filming them, I wanted to make them familiar, to destroy the prejudices we have about them and to tell the story of immigrants who are merely looking for a better life.

  • Duration: 80
  • Production year: 2010
  • Country: France

José Vieira

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