In March 2016, over 10,000 people were trapped in a camp outside the small Greek border village of Idomeni. The border had been closed to all people fleeing. Nadia and Nawaf had one objective, to get to Germany, to where their eldest son already arrived. They stayed with their six other children in several different camps in Greece. Yasir’s wife was an ISIS-prisoner. And many in Yasir’s family had been brutally killed by ISIS when they attacked the Yazidis in Iraq. Idomeni is a place suspended in time, and the film is shaped by scenes from the parallel lives of adults and children in the camp. The children do not go to school, but live in their own world and take care of each other, having little contact with their surrounding. The film catches their bubble and shows: they are tomorrow’s Europe.
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The documentary “Idomeni” follows the tragic destinies of two Yazidi families fleeing the war and genocide. They try to find safety in another country, in Germany, but Europe's migration policy has decided otherwise. They find themselves blocked in a temporary camp in Greece outside the village of Idomeni. So close to new home und unable to move forward, they live in terrible conditions. There is Nadia and Nawaf and their two children, who try to cope with this camp life. Their home was destroyed and many of their friends and relatives are missing or dead in Iraq. And finally Yasir, whose wife, Khalida, has been a prisoner of ISIS for almost two years and whose youngest son has been killed. With no relatives in the camp, Yasir tries to bring his family together. This is their story.
Original title - Idomeni
A film by David Aronowitsch
Sweden, 2018
© 2018, Licensed by First Hand Films
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