The Borderline Collection

Social Issues / Current Affairs

2021

6 Ep / 52' (Two of them available also in 75' Version)

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Synopsis

Episodes

Festivals

Borderline is a collection of six documentary films set on six intriguing borders that surround and divide the European continent.
By following the footsteps of people who encounter these frontiers on a daily basis, Borderline explores the significance of borders while addressing the common challenges and issues of our contemporary society.

Seven talented European filmmakers delve into the daily reality of six border regions at the end of Fortress Europe, sharing stories that are inextricably linked to today’s complex history of Europe in general, the people who live there and their origins in particular.

By building an iron fence that runs right through the beautiful Kupa region, Slovenia has made Croatia a kind of involuntary buffer for the influx of refugees coming from Bosnia and trying to reach...

Ep1: The Wire

Social Issues / Current Affairs

One hour’s drive from Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, all those leaving the “free West” towards Belarus, “the last dictatorship in Europe”, must pass through a strict border control. Crossing this...

Ep2: Where The World Ends

Social Issues / Current Affairs

Every day, the Carlingford ferry takes people across the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, at a time when the debate on Brexit is dominant. Staying or leaving, both options raise equally...

Ep3: Four Seasons In A Day

Social Issues / Current Affairs

The documentary is set in the far north of Sweden and Norway, where a conflict over land and borders seem to be eternally ongoing. Simon and Beatrice Marainen and their three children are a part of an...

Ep4: Radji

Social Issues / Current Affairs

On each side of the border between Lithuania and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, there is an ornithological station that studies the migration of the millions of birds crossing this border region...

Ep5: Before They Meet

Social Issues / Current Affairs

On the border between Serbia and Croatia, in an area where the bloody Yugoslav war still resonates, there is a pile of sand in the Danube that someone wants to turn into a new country. In 2015, the...

Ep6: Liberland

Social Issues / Current Affairs

_Hot Docs 2021. Best Documentary International Emerging Filmmaker Award. World Premiere
_ZagrebDox 2021. The International Federation of Film Critics Award (FIPRESCI)

Producer

off World

Country

Belgium, Croatia, Norway, Lithuania, Sweden, Slovenia

Languages

English Subtitles

Available

Worldwide, except Belgium, Norway, Lithuania, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia

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