L’ESCALE / THE STOPOVER (14`, 2022)

Filmmakers Paul Shemisi and Nizar Saleh travel from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Germany for the screening of their new film. During a layover in Angola, they're stopped at the airport because the airline doesn't trust their documents to be real. While Paul and Nizar think they are being led to a hotel, where they would stay until their flight back home , they are actually being taken to an illegal detention center.

The filmmakers' testimony - which offers an eye-opening insight into the impossibility of safe and carefree travel for Congolese artists - stands in stark contrast with the seemingly peaceful images of cloud formations passing by an airplane window.

CREDITS

a film by Collectif Faire-part narrated by Paul Shemisi & Nizar Saleh edited by Rob Jacobs camera & sound recording by Anne Reijniers additional images by Hammad Shahid Gaming, Qabas Marwan, Cathaya Aviation sound mix by Aiko Devriendt colours by Thijs Paijmans titles by Benny Arts supported by Dagvorm, DeSingel, Argos copyright Collectif Faire-part 2022