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THE GUEST

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By Zvika Gregory PORTNOY, Zuzanna SOLAKIEWICZ

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Social issues - Completed 2024

They are trapped between borders. We are trapped by the system. How far will one go in helping another human being?

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IDFA 2024
International Competition, Best Cinematography Award
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    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Social issues, True Story, Documentary
    • Countries
    • POLAND, QATAR
    • Director(s)
    • Zvika Gregory PORTNOY, Zuzanna SOLAKIEWICZ
    • Producer(s)
    • Maria KRAUSS (Plesnar&Krauss)
    • Synopsis
    • They are trapped between borders. We are trapped by the system. How far will one go in helping another human being?

      In 2021, the border area between Poland and Belarus became a forbidden zone, three kilometers wide, where refugees found themselves brutally trapped. They had become the stakes in a political game: Belarus supposedly guaranteed free passage to the EU, but in Poland the refugees met with pushbacks, forcing them back across the border. Once in Belarus again, they were driven back towards Poland—a horrific stalemate in an inhospitable landscape of treacherous marshes.

      Maciek lives with his family on the Polish side of the border. He has taken in an exhausted Syrian refugee, the 27-year-old Alhyder. After he has regained his strength, Alhyder faces the big question: what now? Where can he go without putting either himself or Maciek in danger?

      The tension is palpable in this sensitive, sharply observant documentary. Without a hint of sensationalism, the camera reads the emotions on the faces of the silent Polish family members and their grateful guest. The situation is dire, and a solution remains out of reach. Yet, at the same time, the film is permeated by the warmth of human help and contact.

      The Guest will have its World Premiere in the International Competition at the upcoming edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the world’s largest documentary film festival.
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