Shadow Game

The documentary follows young people trying to reach Europe. All of them are teenagers seeking asylum. Fences have gone up along Europe’s borders. Applying for asylum has become very hard. The teenagers try to cross on their own. They walk through snowy country. Their meetings with border police are rough. The road starts in Greece. It goes on through North Macedonia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. It reaches from Italy to France and then to the Netherlands. Arriving grows harder every year. The filming was spread over three years. Part of the footage was taken by the young people themselves. They recorded it on their phones. The documentary builds an experimental form of telling. Sajid Khan Nasiri appears in the ninety minute documentary. It is a Dutch production two directors finished in 2021.