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ПОДОРОЖНІ WAYFARERS<br />

Maksym Butkevych,<br />

human rights activist, moderator of the program<br />

A year and a half ago some Ukrainian media<br />

started to report about ‘our own people,’<br />

that is, about the forced migrants (a.k.a.<br />

‘internally displaced persons,’ in the official<br />

parlance) from the occupied territories and<br />

the warzone. Ukraine was just starting to<br />

get used to the new phenomenon of forced<br />

internal migration. Waves of negativity<br />

towards the migrants from the Donbas<br />

began to recede as soon as the forced<br />

migration took on concrete faces and<br />

names: the ‘Donbasians,’ unidentifiable<br />

at first, started to acquire the features of<br />

specific living human beings with individual<br />

destinies, joined by the tragedy of war and<br />

occupation.<br />

In the case of international forced migrants,<br />

this has not happened. Even many of those<br />

who would like to do it lack the appropriate<br />

optics, calibrated to distinguish individual<br />

features and destinies in the masses of<br />

‘those refugees’ who are flooding the<br />

territory of Europe. It is this optics that is<br />

provided by documentary makers from<br />

various countries. And then, the picture<br />

changes.<br />

In the special program of Docudays UA<br />

dedicated to migration, you will not see<br />

any ‘hordes of dangerous outlanders.’ We<br />

see faces and hear voices that tell us about<br />

the intimate matters, about how personal<br />

worlds get ruined in the cruelty of war,<br />

and how in their place, new ones emerge –<br />

wherever that is possible. The small world<br />

of refugees from Bosnia, from the times of<br />

the previous large-scale refugee crisis in<br />

Europe, can be seen through the eyes of the<br />

teenage refugee which the director of Flotel<br />

Europa was back then. The complex and<br />

tragic story of one Syrian family, their love,<br />

freedom and prisons, was recorded for years<br />

by the director of A Syrian Love Story – who<br />

in turn became part of the story itself. In<br />

Road of a Migrant, Ukrainian labor migrants<br />

pray for family reunions and their loved<br />

ones in foreign lands, retelling the story of<br />

how it is to be second-class citizens. And<br />

the inhabitants of the tiny Italian island of<br />

Lampedusa try, as a community, to deal with<br />

local problems without abandoning the<br />

migrants who are rescued in the sea by the<br />

coastguards, and resenting those who use<br />

their community to inflate fears of migrants<br />

all over Europe.<br />

During the special program on migration at<br />

Docudays UA, you can see, hear and discuss<br />

all this, thoughtfully and carefully. We will<br />

do it without phobias and clichés – they are<br />

inappropriate here.<br />

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