Edition: 2009

Selected by the Festival: VISCULT FESTIVAL OF VISUAL CULTURE 2008, Joensuu, Finland

Year of production: 2007

Country of production: Spain, Morocco

Production: University of Art and Design Helsinki

Set in: Spain, Morocco

Duration: 51'

Film: Color

Directed by: Elina Hirvonen

In the first journey we travel along the route of tomato trucks to Almeria, Spain, where illegal immigrants from Africa work in greenhouses. The second journey takes us to Morocco, where numerous immigrants are willing to do anything to get to Europe. We meet Adam, who has escaped war in the Ivory Coast. Now he is living in hiding along with numerous other refugees and immigrants and constantly fearing violence from local authorities. The third journey takes us through the desert to Bakary, in a village on the border of Mali and Mauritania where the desert is believed to ruin the possibility of human life in the village.