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2020 / 19 minutes

Directed by
Beina Xu
Country of production
Germany
Series
Shorts Collection 2

A refugee known only as Alberto flies from Athens to Brussels on a fake passport. Three years later, a small crew from Berlin tries to make a film by shooting the landscape of his transit. Things fall apart. They film pigeons instead. The artifice of documentary becomes the subject itself: where do we stand between image and meaning?

Forget Alberto For Now is an essay that probes our roles as authors and spectators, and interrogates the politics of narrative: to whom do stories belong, and who has the right to tell them? The director asks “What happens if we don’t want to film the protagonist...Can a pigeon be a protagonist?”

In the 2021 RAI Film Fest
Language and subtitles
German, Arab, French with English subtitles
Region
Western Europe Western Mediterranean
Country
Belgium
Greece
Keywords
Reflexivity Migration Resettlement Refugees/ Displaced populations