Description:
Almost
seventeen million people—refugees, displaced persons or
migrants—live in camps, in a virtual country the size of the
Netherlands. And yet the names of these places do not appear on any
maps. The UNHCR and NGOs have developed ways of running them that are
both efficient and absurd. This film explores the land of camps, from
Kenya, to Tanzania, Jordan, and the Greece/Macedonia border, as well
as at the UNHCR’s headquarters in Geneva. It reveals an immense
system that combines humanitarian concerns with the management of
undesirables who rich countries want to keep out, whatever the cost.
Biography: Anne
Poiret is a filmmaker and investigative broadcast journalist
based in Paris. She has been working in both current event shows
(Envoyé Spécial and Un oeil sur la planète for
France2, Arte Reportage) and on long-form documentaries for the past
thirteen years, and won the most prestigious journalism award in
France—the Albert Londres Prize for her film Muttur: a Crime
Against Humanitarians, which was shot in Sri Lanka. Anne has
often filmed the traumas of the “neither peace, nor war”
situations in the Middle East, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Iraq. Her
recent filmography includes State Builders (Arte France /
Quark productions) and Namibia, The Forgotten Genocide (France
5 / Bo Travail Productions).
