My New European Life

When Abou from Mali finally made it to Europe it felt like a new life had started for him A life that offered a future The film he made about his journey from Africa to Europe gets shown all over the world and throughout Germany where Abou lives as an asylum seeker His life oscillates between that of an artist with a voice who is invited to screenings and events and the isolation and boredom in a remote refugee centre An essayistic reflection about Europes invisible borders and filmmaking as an act of selfempowerment