27. dokumentART
films & future
Only a few days before the Macedonian frontier is closed, many refugees decamp for the last leg of the Balkan route, in the hope of a better life. By train and on foot the filmmaker accompanies them, capturing unpretentious yet aesthetically captivating images. Without commentary he films huge garbage dumps and the wide fallow land which they pass, and the desolation that this evokes. A male voice recites in Arabic the poems of the late Syrian author Fuad Rifka, from his 2002 collection “The Valley Of Rituals”.