Exodus Our Journey to Europe

Episode
Exodus Our Journey to Europe - Ep2
Broadcast Info
2016 (59 mins)
Description
In 2015, we gave cameras to some of the million people who smuggled themselves into Europe, to record the places where no-one else can go. The result is a terrifying, intimate, epic portrait of the migration crisis.
EPISODE 2
Twelve months ago, the production team began giving cameraphones to people attempting to reach Europe, escaping war, poverty or persecution. They were prepared to film where regular film crews could not go: on the inflatable dinghies crossing from Turkey to Greece, in the back of lorries entering the Eurostar, or on open trucks driven by people smugglers across the Sahara.
In episode 2, we continue Ahmad’s journey. A Syrian Kurd, he has reached Athens, and rather than take the long and uncertain overland route through Europe, he negotiates with a smuggler for a fake passport that he can use to fly to France. With his wife and young daughters trapped in Syria, time is of the essence. In Calais, his first attempt to cross the Channel almost results in suffocation in a flour tanker. But he refuses to give up on Britain.
Also leaving Athens is 24 year old Sadiq from Afghanistan, fleeing Taliban repression and violence, and heading to Finland, a country of which he’s never even seen a picture.
Meanwhile, 11 year old Isra’a and her family group of 16 people, including babies and her severely disabled sister, are approaching the Serbian border. They are shocked by the total chaos that greets them and are forced to spend hours in the mud and pouring rain with no certainty that they will be able to continue their journey to Germany.
Filmed by both production and the refugees themselves, the result is a terrifyingly intimate yet uniquely epic portrait of the biggest movement of people that Europe has seen since World War Two.
Genre
Economics; Philosophy and Ethics; Social Science

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The Open University, "Exodus Our Journey to Europe". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/225955 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)