• Director(s):

    MEIER (ALIX-FRANCOIS)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE, APOLLO FILMS

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2012

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET

Today, nearly 90% of illegal entries across the European Union's borders take place from Turkey to Greece. In 2011, over 50,000 clandestine immigrants, driven by poverty, crossed the Evros River to enter Europe.

The crossing is often dangerous: in 2011, 48 people drowned, and six others died on the riverbank from hypothermia.

This phenomenon has been accentuated with the increase in patrols along the shores of Southern Italy and Spain, and with the reinforcement of monitoring in the Aegean Sea. The Greek police is overwhelmed by the extent of the influx of migrants: over the last three years, the number of migrants has tripled.