Stranger in Paradise

Date
Hour
Place
02/08
14:00
THE SMALL CINEMA


Stranger in Paradise
reż|dir Guido Hendrikx | NL | 2016 | 72 min
prod|proFrank van den Engel scen|wr Guido Hendrikx zdj|ph Emo Weemhoff muz|mus Juho Nurmela, Ella van der Woule mon|ed Lot Rossmark ob|cast Valentijn Dhaenens dys|dis Against Gravity

DESCRIPTION

In a classroom in Sicily, just inside the walls of Fortress Europe, recently arrived migrants receive lessons from a teacher who has some rather unbalanced traits. One moment he mercilessly rejects the refugees – the next, mollifyingly, he embraces them. Operating at the intersection of documentary and fiction, “Stranger in Paradise” investigates the power relations between Europe and refugees. Divided Europe is represented by an actor (the antagonist) who reveals himself in various different guises to his class of refugees (the protagonists). “Stranger in Paradise” seeks to hold up a mirror to Europeans by confronting migrants with the debate of which they are the object. It makes clear how rules and procedures, purged of emotion, provide a handle and create distance when the other is at the door. At the same time, the question arises: can we not say the same thing about all ideologies?


AWARDS
2017 IDFA - Special Jury Award for Dutch Documentary
2017 Docs Against Gravity – Amnesty International Award, nominated to the Fiction/Nonfiction Award

DIRECTOR
Guido Hendrikx (1987) Dutch director. He studied Liberal Arts & Sciences (Utrecht University, 2007), focusing on courses in philosophy, criminology, film studies, and journalism. In 2010 he directed his first short film “Day is Done” which premiered at IDFA. He enrolled at the Netherlands Film Academy to study Directing Documentary. As a student he directed the internationally acclaimed, award-winning shorts “Escort” (2013, Oscar Qualifier) and “Onder Ons” (2014).

FILMOGRAPHY
2017 Obcy w raju|Stranger in Paradise
2014 Onder ons (krótki|short)
2013 Escort (krótki|short)
2010 Day is Done (krótki|short)

© Festiwal Filmu i Sztuki Dwa Brzegi Kazimierz Dolny Janowiec nad Wisłą
Projekt i realizacja: Tomasz Żewłakow