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Surprising Europe - Taking action
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Surprising Europe - Taking action

25 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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African migrants across Europe push back against the laws and landlords working against them, and this film follows several of their fights at once. In Paris, Sissoko Azoumane, originally from Mali, speaks for a movement of undocumented workers demanding papers after years of paying taxes and holding jobs, a campaign that a new law abruptly cuts off. Reporter Sorious Samura tracks migrants who resort to cloning other people's identities just to get hired. Wahabou, from Senegal, survived a fire that killed twenty people in a building housing migrant workers and now campaigns against fire hazards in Paris housing blocks. In Brescia, Italy, African residents organize against evictions driven by anti-immigration politics, comparing notes on which tactics actually slow a landlord down. Hip-hop artist K-Nel appears throughout, using his music to describe the mistreatment migrants face on arrival. The film moves between these cities and cases without a single narrator's throughline, letting each group's own account of organizing carry the story.