HIER & JETZT 2023 - Film screening & conversation with director Rut Kurkiewicz

“We are prisoners of the Polish state”

In the post-truth era and in times of war, we will meet with the Polish journalist to talk about reliable sources of information, political and economic manipulations and interests, and distrust between narratives - to reach the truth and a reliable representation of the reality on the ground.

Film description: Since summer 2021 Poland is facing the so-called “refugee crisis”, on our border with Belarus. Russia and Belarus are the only European countries, who are giving visas to the Middle East and Africa. Naturally, it happened that the new migration path was discovered. It goes through polish forest and swamps. Despite so many deaths, it’s still the safest way to reach Europe. In the documentary we are telling the stories of Middle Eastern refugees, who came to Poland, and instead of getting protection, they were locked up in detention camps. They faced violence, hunger, no medical help, abuse, racism. They were running the hunger strikes, to protest and fight for their rights- basic human rights for respect and safety. Polish detention camps, refugee camps, are literally prisons, where people who commit no crime are kept for months, in horrific conditions.

The documentary and the Q&A will be in EN.