Stop-Over

A patient, quietly anxious immersion into precarious lives, watching people wait and worry in cramped rooms with little to hold onto.

Directed by

Kaveh Bakhtiari

Genres

Documentary

Overview

In the course of living long months with a group of Iranian illegals in Athens, the director examines this radical choice of pursuing a better life through the most perilous of possibilities: clandestinity.

How it feels

Melancholic, tense, earnest and bleak. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Immigration, survival, isolation, identity

Content

Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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