A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
November 20, 2015
Original Title:
Remember Your Name, Babylon
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Rocky & Estrella
Production Countries:
Belgium
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 77
Waiting, waiting, waiting. This is the main feature of the lives of a group of men and women, brought together by fate, who crossed the sea in search of a better life. They live in a no man’s land, somewhere on the coast of Spain between long rows of hermetically sealed greenhouses. Every now and again they get some work, but most of their time is spent in little ramshackle shacks built from pallets, bits of tarpaulin and anything else they can lay their hands on. They have no interaction with the rest of the world at all, although they occasionally refer to some shady lawyers who are supposed to be working on residence permits.
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