Refuge(e)
- Documentary
Refuge(e) traces the incredible journey of two refugees, Alpha and Zeferino. Each fled violent threats to their lives in their home countries and presented themselves at the US border asking for political asylum, only to be incarcerated in a for-profit prison for months on end without having committed any crime. Thousands more like them can't tell their stories.
- Directed by
- Sylvia Johnson
- Written by
- Sylvia Johnson
Cast
- Alpha
- Zeferino
Keywords
- prison
- woman director
- new mexico
- torture
- escape
- usa–mexico border
- africa
- refugee
- government corruption
- short film
- prison brutality
- human rights
- refugees
- documentary short
- mexican border
- student protest
- border crossing
- protestors
- refuge
- immigrant experience
- border control
- asylum seekers
- human rights protest
- detention camp
- guinea
- west african
- democratic republic of the congo
- central africa
- street protest
- female filmmaker