Focus Frontiers

The boundaries that we would like to see, if not disappear, at least open a little more, are the cause of unspeakable tragedy in the early twenty-first century. They are becoming increasingly closed in every country because of national or nationalistic egoism. In "Oriented" by Jake Witzenfeld, we follow three Palestinian friends, citizens of Israel who are faced with an increasingly socially-divided and violent state of Israel. Two more films force us to confront the difficulties and humiliation suffered by young people wishing to live in a country other than where they were born. "A escondidas" by Mikel Rueda follows Ibrahim, a young Moroccan in an unwelcoming Spain, where only the young wanderer Rafa takes a liking to him. "7 Kinds of Wrath" draws on the difficulties of integration when mistrust prevails.