Idomeni, frontière gréco-macédonienne
Maria Kourkouta

In March 2016, the European Commission closed the “Balkan route.” Even so, on the afternoon of Monday, March 14, several hundred of the 15,000 refugees stuck at Idomeni made their way through fields and were able to get around the barbed-wire fence and arrive at the village of Moin. They were arrested by the Macedonian army and sent back to Greece. Despite their failure, this shared journey remains a last gesture of emancipation and a demand for freedom of movement into a Europe that is building walls. The video bears witness to this clandestine movement doomed to failure.

Year of production: 2016