Refugee Blues

Refugee Blues

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Released:2016-01-01
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Duration:6 min
Director:Stephan Bookas, Tristan Daws
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Set to the verses of W.H. Auden’s 1939 poem, the film charts an intimate day in ‘the jungle’ of the refugee camp outside Calais, which contradicts the mainstream portrayal of the camp as a center of violence.

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