Why do we personally pick up one refugee and let another freeze to death on the European border? Isn't it dangerous to take empathy as a guiding principle? The Iranian-Dutch artist Tina Farifteh explores the issue, in this documentary.
The way we relate to the 'other' is manifested in absurd ways on the European borders. We let one group of people drown or freeze to death, while we pick up others with our own car and give them blankets and teddy bears. In her first documentary, the Iranian-Dutch photographer and visual artist Tina Farifteh investigates these two extremes of us as human beings and the mechanism of fleeting empathy porn. A dog trimmer providing shelter to a Ukrainian family with 25 dogs, a young relief worker, an activist and some scientists shed light on the issue.
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