Hotline

synopsis

An intense portrait of the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants, a small Israeli human rights organization focused on an incomparably larger and more difficult task: helping illegal African refugees. The director focuses less on the immigrants and more on the organization’s staff, their personal values and their daily struggles with bureaucracy, all of which she records herself with a handheld camera.

“I followed the workers of the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants in their routine: the young women informing asylum seekers about their rights, the lawyers fighting to liberate asylum seekers from prison, the public policy coordinator working at the Parliament's Internal Affairs Committee etc.” S. Landsmann

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