Documentary — «Isla Frontera»

Screening of the Documentary «Isla Frontera» at El Taller de la Isleta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

DOCUMENTARY ISLA FRONTERA (Gran Canaria).

SCREENING: MAY 14 – 6:00 PM.
EL TALLER DE LA ISLETA, LAS PALMAS.

*POST-SCREENING DEBATE-FORUM.
NO BORDER FILMS.

In the Canary Islands, one of the hottest points on the migratory route to Europe, the border manifests itself as a political and institutional structure that blocks, excludes, and violates. Isla Frontera is a documentary that makes visible this space of non-rights, where young migrants struggle to survive amidst bureaucratic obstacles and institutional abandonment, but also where communities emerge that resist and support.

The documentary gathers direct testimonies from young migrants who struggle to survive in a system that abandons them, with the voices of activists from El Taller, members of Somos Red, solidarity individuals who open their homes to cover the lack of institutional humanity, and one of the promoters of the Informe Frontera Sur 2023 (Southern Border Report 2023), which provides context and denounces.

No border films is a collective formed by three social and audiovisual activists who, for more than ten years, have traveled to areas of border tension to document on the ground the human rights violations suffered by migrants and refugees.

Working from activism and commitment, their work seeks to make visible the consequences of institutional racism and demand safe and violence-free routes. In April 2023, the collective traveled to Gran Canaria to gather direct testimony of the situation of young migrants trapped in a system that ignores them.

This audiovisual work accompanies and reinforces the Informe Frontera Sur 2023 (Southern Border Report 2023), prepared by several collectives that denounce the situation in Spanish border territories.