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The Island of all Together (CC)

Philip Brink and Marieke van der Velden · Netherlands · Documentary · 23 min · ♥︎ 1.1K

On a bench overlooking the sea on Lesvos, holidaying European tourists and newly arrived refugees sit down together and talk about war, home, work, love and pets.

A simple, moving experiment: strangers from opposite sides of the refugee crisis just sit down and talk.

Every summer, many European tourists travel to the Greek island Lesvos for a sunny vacation. Since 2015, hundreds of thousands of refugees crossed the sea from Turkey and also arrived on the island in search of a safe ha

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