Crossing Europe

The Arrivals

1 hr. 53 min. | Documentary | N/A

Carolina and Colette are social workers. They spend all day interacting with families seeking asylum in France. The girls help the visitors to fill in the paperwork. They are approached every day by people from all over the world. Some don’t even know how they got to France! They all have their own weirdness and their own stories. Young and impulsive Carolina often reacts to immigrant stories very sharply and bursts into flames easily. Colette is much calmer and radiates compassion, but very often gets lost among his papers. They are communicated with by overworked but stubborn and often absurdly unspeakable newcomers.

Claudine Bories

Claudine Bories

Claudine Bories began her career in theater. In 1968, she directed her first documentary. From 1990 to 2002, she co-founded the Seine-Saint-Denis Documentary Film Creative Center and began organizing documentary film meetings.
Patrice Chagnard

Patrice Chagnard

Patrice Chagnard was still in charge of France’s largest film club at the age of seventeen. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He has worked as the editor-in-chief of a TV magazine. In 1969 he became a hippie and traveled around Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
Languages
French
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Original title
Les arrivants
Produced
2009: France

Film information

Director
Claudine Bories, Patrice Chagnard
Screenplay
Claudine Bories, Patrice Chagnard
Music
Pierre Carrasco, Ali Farka Touré
Cinematography
Patrice Chagnard
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