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Friday, June 20, 2014

[Syria-EU]: AlMonitor - Film tracks Syrian refugees' creative journey to asylum


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The documentary "On the Bride’s Side" was born out of this horror. It started with the reality at Milan’s Central Station, where large numbers of Syrians arrive before departing again toward northern Europe, paying extortionate sums to traffickers for a clandestine transit through Europe. And so filmmaker Antonio Augugliaro, freelance journalist and writer Gabriele Del Grande and Palestinian-Syrian poet Khaled Solaiman al-Nassiry decided to devise a wedding to cross European borders with a wedding procession. I was invited to the wedding. I was invited to be on the bride’s side. And so we accompanied five Palestinians and Syrians to Sweden.


Go to "on the bride's side" website here