PASSAGER

Asef is a refugee from Afghanistan with an eyesight deficiency. He did the crossing to Greece in early 2016 and since then has tried several times to find his way to western Europe. The film is the amalgamation of his 8 month video diary and corresponding efforts, in which he talks about his adventures, the dangers, the everyday life at the camps, as well as his memories and dreams of a better life. The distorted sense of time, the state of suspension, the emotional fluctuation between hope and hopelessness and the desire and battle for a better life, shape Asef'’s diary entries. With sincerity and naivety he takes the viewer to a surreal tour of the spaces he rests, hides and visits: the refugee camp at the old Elliniko airport in Athens, the main meeting point of the refugees at Victoria Square in downtown Athens and an abandoned wood factory in Patra, where the immigrants find shelter while waiting for their chance to hide in or under a truck that crosses the Adriatic to Italy.