Natives of the New World

Name: Natives of the New World
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2018-10-31
Rating: 8

A group of migrant filmmakers documented their daily lives on Lesvos with their mobile phones. It became a collective story about borders, repression, solidarity, and resistance.

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TMDB 8.016+201813mEnglish

Documentary

Synopsis

Natives of the New World is a short documentary film shot on cell phones by the Kino Mosaik collective, which was founded in Lesbos Island, Greece, in 2018. The migrants who were members of the collective tried to transform the period when they were stuck in Lesbos waiting for the decision on their asylum applications into a constitutive process. Kino Mosaik’s main goal was to oppose the passive, apolitical, and victimized migrant image created by mainstream media and many artistic representations.