This film tells the true stories of people living on both sides of three very different walls. When the Berlin Wall fell we shelved the idea of separation walls as part of the past, but reality is the opposite.

Directors Pablo Iraburu and Migueltxo Molina show the fences, gates, barbed wire and barriers of the American-Mexican border, the Morrocan-Spanish border and the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe. The film tells the intimate stories of refugees, migrants, guards and citizens. Each with their individual take on the wall, together showing how the countless partitions all over the world form a universal problem.

The film is winner of the Oxfam Global Justice Award 2015, that was rewarded at the IDFA 2015 festival.

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About this program
IDFA, one of world’s most famous documentary festivals, goes The Hague! Are you free on Sunday the 10th of January? In cooperation with Oxfam Novib, we offer a special IDFA-day on the subject of humans on the move: migration & refugees. In between screenings of A Syrian Love Story and Walls, you can take part in an interactive debate on the topic, making use of film fragments from different documentary films. Tickets are sold for separate films and for the debate. If you are a fan, you can also join us for the entire program (including lunch) by ordering a passe partout for only € 17,50,-. Only by e-mail reservation, and before the 7th of January!