Screenings on Inclusion - Borders of exclusion

This year, the Cercle Cité continues its series of screenings of short films and artists' films, which will address different aspects of inclusion, accessibility, integration and discrimination in a philosophical and original way.

These topics are highly debatable in a society that on the one hand is becoming more and more aware of the subject of identity and diversity, but which nevertheless faces difficulties in adapting to this new awareness. Migration and feminism, the search for (artistic) identity, the rights of people with special needs, the rights of people belonging to the LGBTQIA group and the challenges of parenthood: the themes linked to these debates are multifaceted and affect many of us.

Cercle Cité has given CinEast festival (Central and Eastern European Film Festival in Luxembourg) carte blanche to present a special screening as part of its 17th edition. The festival will present several short films on the theme of “Borders of exclusion”, exploring the theme of migration and, more broadly, exclusion based on both physical and immaterial barriers.

Szymon Ruczyński, There Are People in the Forest, 2023: A lonely man limps down the road. A truck drives up to him. Several armed men jump out of it. They capture the limping man and take him back to the forest. The only witnesses of the scene are people from a nearby village. Since 2021, situations like this have become commonplace on the EU’s Polish-Belarusian border, which is the scene of an ongoing, little-known refugee crisis. An animated documentary whose creator happens to live in a town on the border.

More films to be confirmed.

Free entrance, without registration.

Food is not allowed in the screening room.

Location: Auditorium Cité

Organisation: Cercle Cité in collaboration with CinEast

Screening duration: 40 min.

Language: There Are People in the Forest: without language