Welcome to Europe

Α refugee camp across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border made of carton boxes and filled with stories of people tortured by the police. A prison in Jordan with cells designed for five people but in which more than a hundred people reside, reaching for fresh air through the prison bars. A makeshift camp in a forest in Kenya, the only refuge of people who have nowhere else to go. A mass grave in Bosnia and Herzegovina and an imam praying for their souls. There is only one problem: these pictures, as we will find out towards the end of the film, are not telling us the truth. All these stories do not come from a place far away, across the borders. They come from Greece, from detention facilities and slums in a country that cannot cope with the thousands of immigrants entering through its borders, while the rest of Europe looks away. As for the imam, he is praying on top of a real mass grave: that of immigrants who died trying to cross the Evros River, in an effort to enter Greece from Turkey...
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Script: Stelios Kouloglou
Cinematography: Haris Farros, Manolis Konsolakis, Akis Tzimas
Editing: Thodoris Armaos
Production: Lynx Productions SA, Greece
Producers: Spyros Mavrogenis
Format: Digibeta Color-B&W
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2011
Duration: 10
Contact: Lynx Productions SA, Greece Spyros Mavrogenis T. +30 210 685 5098 F. +30 210 680 1019 lynx@lynxsa.gr

Stelios Kouloglou

Author and director of several documentaries including the award winning Apology of an Economic Hitman, Communism: the Great Utopia of the 20th Century, The Death Match and Whistleblowers, he has written more than 150 scripts for documentaries. He is the director and scriptwriter of Reportage without Frontiers, a current affairs and documentary series weekly which is aired on Greek National Television and which has repeatedly been voted the best informative program on Greek television.

Filmography

(selected)
1999 Dirty Greeks (short)
2000 The Crusade of an Archbishop
2000 Communism: the Great Utopia of the 20th Century
2002 The Death Match
2005 /Whistleblowers
2008 Apology of an Economic Hit Man
2011 Welcome to Europe