L’alba a Niscemi – ext01 from fratelli di TAV on Vimeo.

“We spoke with refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants and undocumented in Greece, to try and get an idea of the state of the asylum procedure in this European border country and what it is like to live in constant fear of being attacked – for having the wrong skin colour.”

Into the Fire is being crowd-released [on April, 21]: All over the internet people are embedding Into the Fire on their website or blog. With everyone who participates the audience will grow. And because the audience are also the distributors, the distribution network grows as well. Are you participating?
(Into the Fire)

To emerge from economic crisis, we must stand in solidarity with Greece as one Europe. Pledge to support those hardest hit by crisis: http://solidaritynow.org.

Thank you to the Creative Commons artists who made this film possible:

Corentin Six (Jonction)
ND Strupler (A Train Trip to Athens)
Drew Hayes (Le Gare de Paris)
Matthew Schroeter (Munich)
Portraits of Greece in Crisis (Χωρίς μεσάζοντες – Μια εναλλακτική οικονομία στην Ελλάδα της κρίσης)
The PrismGR2011: Niko Katsaounis & Nina Maria Paschalidou
Abhas (Delhi – Change)
Moritz Oberholzer (London Bus Tour & “how are you?”)
Laurent Hoffmann (Silent Climate: Parade )
Toon Westra (Pandora’s Box)
crunk (Creole Cousins trailer)
Cristoph (Floating Home)

All kinds of people are waiting in seven different queues. The first person of each queue becomes the last of the next one, thus creating an enormous human line. But at the end of the line, it all begins backwards again.

Casus belli – by Yorgos Zois – is a Greek short film which premiered in the official competition at the 67th Venice Film Festival 2010 and won many international film awards all over the world.

Casus Belli A film by Yorgos Zois from Social-Revolution.gr on Vimeo.

“Karim is looking for his fiancée – who abandoned him on their wedding day – in the neighborhoods of Beirut. Through his interior monologue, we discover the love/hate relationship he has with Beirut (and his fiancée) and his mixed feelings towards both of them. He is constantly distracted by his thoughts and eventually becomes wanted nationwide.”

[via Your Middle East]

Directed by Marie-Louise Elia and produced by Marie-Noel Bou Haila, in the academic curriculum of the Filmmaking Masters of the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts – Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA) – March 2012.

This documentary recreates Orwell’s life through a series of imaginary film clips, fictional archive news stories, and the sort of documentary films Orwell may have made. Chris Langham is Orwell and he brings a warmth, intelligence and humanity to the role.
(Dangerous Minds))

“We have been called many names, illegals, aliens, guest workers, border crossers, undesirables, exiles, criminals, non-citizens, terrorists, thieves, foreigners, invaders, undocumented, our voices converge on these principles. We know that
international connectivity is the reality that migrants have helped create. It is the place where we all reside.”
(The Migrant Manifesto)

Watch poet and journalist Musa Okwonga perform the Migrant Manifesto.

In May 2011, hundreds of thousands of Greeks swarmed into Syntagma Square in Athens to protest against the firesale of their country, their labor rights and their livelihoods to corrupt domestic elites and foreign financial interests.

In a matter of days, a protest camp was set up — organized on the principles of direct democracy, leaderless self-management and mutual aid — providing a glimpse of utopia in the midst of a devastating financial, political and social crisis. On June 28-29, during a Parliamentary vote on further austerity measures, the state finally responded with brutal force, eventually evicting the protesters from the square and crushing the radical potential of their social experiment.