• Those Who Jump

Streaming: Those Who Jump

(Les sauteurs)

September 8–14, 2020

Livestream Conversation
Daphne Matziaraki and Andrés Cediel
Recorded Thursday, September 10, 8 PM PDT

Join us for a conversation with Daphne Matziaraki, maker of the short films Container and 4.1 Miles and a graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and UC Berkeley Professor of Visual Journalism Andrés Cediel. Also available: a prerecorded introduction to Those Who Jump by Debarati Sanyal, a professor of French at UC Berkeley.

A tiny piece of Europe on the African continent holds a strong pull for African refugees. Morocco shares a border with Melilla, one of two Spanish coastal cities in northern Africa. On Mount Gurugu, which looks down on the city, hundreds of refugees, primarily from sub-Saharan Africa, live in a temporary camp as they repeatedly attempt to cross into Europe. Tantalizingly close, the border is entirely circumscribed by a series of fences watched over by border police and surveillance cameras. Filmmakers Moritz Siebert and Estephan Wagner gave a camera to one of the refugees, Malian Abou Bakar Sidibé, and invited him to document daily life in the camp. His personal footage—of police raids, discussions of camp politics, a soccer rivalry, searching for food, a performance of an autobiographical rap song—creates what Variety critic Jay Weissberg called “one of the most authentic films on this highly charged topic.” Sidibé himself says, “I feel I exist when I film.”

FILM DETAILS 
Cinematographer
  • Abou Bakar Sidibé
Language
  • Bambara
  • French
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • Digital streaming
  • 82 mins
Source
  • Urban Distribution International
Preceded By

Container

Daphne Matziaraki, Greece, 2019

A portrait of Syrian boys, unaccompanied by their parents, living in a camp for immigrants on the Greek island of Samos.

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • Color
  • Digital streaming
  • 18 mins
source
  • Daphne Matziaraki
Followed By

4.1 Miles

Daphne Matziaraki, United States, 2016

This bonus short film follows the Greek Coast Guard for one day as they rescue refugees off the island of Lesbos.

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • Color
  • Digital streaming
  • 26 mins
source
  • Daphne Matziaraki