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‘Silent Land’ Helmer on World’s Response to Migrants: ‘We Are Closing Our Eyes and Our Borders’

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Marta Balaga Polish filmmaker Aga Woszczyńska – together with co-writer Piotr Litwin – started to work on the script of her first feature film “Silent Land” in 2016, and notes that since then, her film – which centers on the world’s response to migrants – has sadly become even more timely.Set in Italy, the slow-burning drama sees a couple whose summer holiday goes terribly wrong when Rahim (Ibrahim Keshk), an illegal immigrant hired to fix the pool in the house they paid for, suddenly dies.

But Woszczyńska views her film as a humanistic rather than a political statement. “I don’t want to blame just Italy, but the whole of Europe.

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