Film screening: Go, Friend, Go

Every year thousands of people try to reach Europe by land, journeying on foot across the mountains, rivers and fields of the Balkan route. They face the game: attempting to cross borders without being arrested and rebuffed with violence by border police.

Go, Friend, Go (2022) spans the ports of Patras in Greece, the forests by the border town of Šid in Serbia, the abandoned factories in the Bosnian Una Sana canton, and the arrival point in Trieste's public squares, all peripheral hotspots of migrant lives in transit.

The film is an experiential journey made of observation, found footage and animation, drawing the viewer to feel the contrasting experience of resilience and resourceful hope that can be found in a context of destitution and violence.

ORHI presents its first screening outside of film festivals and cinemas, followed by a reflective Q&A with David Suber (screenplay). David is an award-winning freelance journalist, filmmaker and researcher at UCL and Oxford, working on the intersection between organised crime, people smuggling and border policing.

The film will be shown in the EP Abraham Lecture Theatre at Green Templeton College. Runtime is 68 minutes. Snacks will be provided!

View the trailer here.

Host or Publisher Oxford Refugee Health Initiative