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HUMANITY ON TRIAL

By Jonas BRUUN

FIRST HAND FILMS - as SALES All rights, World

Social issues - Completed 2019

Festivals
& Awards

Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (online) 2021

Doc Market

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Social issues, Documentary
- Countries
- DENMARK, GREECE, FINLAND
- Languages
- DANISH, ENGLISH, ARABIC, GREEK
- Duration
- 70 mn
- Director(s)
- Jonas BRUUN
- Producer(s)
- Malene Flindt PEDERSEN (Hansen & Pedersen)
- Synopsis
- All these years, and culminating in a ground-breaking trial, we follow Salam’s case and witness what happens to our European values and legal systems under the pressure of the refugee crisis.
  
  After having spent two nights in jail the four others, another Dane and three Spaniards, are allowed to travel back to their families, but being the captain of the boat our protagonist is not granted his freedom. Under bail of €10,000 he is released from jail, but denied the right to leave Greece before the trial. So he stays in the country following the refugee crisis around the nation helping where it’s needed the most. After 20 months at last, burned out financially, physically and mentally, he is allowed to go home. But the impending trial still hangs over him like a dark cloud. So he starts his preparations with lawyers in Greece and Denmark, and goes around Europe giving talks and interviews, meeting with politicians, all trying to bring awareness to his case.