Before Our Eyes

One inside one outside One thin line that creates us and them The importance of the borders has again a huge impact in Europe Yesterday it was all about free movement Today its about controled borders And walls and fences have become normality Before our eyes is a testimony that shows a situation where Hungary and indirectly Europe closes itself to the outside world The film portrays four places four events which was filmed over three days in early September 2015 when the worst refugee crisis we have seen since the Second World War started in earnest My Europe does not build walls said Stefan Löfven the swedish prime minister in a speech a few days later Before our eyes shows how words and actions are no longer connected Today Spain Greece Bulgaria the UK Hungary Slovenia and Austria have built fences and walls to strengthen theirs and Europes external borders