Connecting Borders by Gemma Gfeller

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Location

Berlin, Derry/Londonderry

Year

2023

Date

Length

12min 18sec

Audio

sound

Format

Digital

colour

Source

Reel Borders

Courtesy

Reel Borders

Rights Holder

Reel Borders

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Description

Gemma Gfeller made this film as an attempt to deepen my understanding of border experiences. Gfeller spoke to people from different backgrounds, cultures and religions, from Ireland, Palestine, Colombia, the United States and Turkey. The interviews, conducted in the border city of Derry, where Gfeller was born and raised, and in Berlin, a city with its own unique history of borders, where Gfeller now lives, offered polyvocal perspectives to contrast the Irish border with other views of what it means to live in a bordered world.

Credits

Directed by Gemma Gfeller

With (in order of appearance) Seana, Ahmed, Kora, Umut, Todd, Onur, Yuhan, Gwen and Baha

Images by Gemma Gfeller, Diana Cheung and Irena Gutiérrez

Produced by Kevin Smets

Edited by Diana Cheung

Music: Better Together by Matthew L. Fisher 

Special thanks: Manus Brennan, Margaret Gordon, Seamus Gordon, Sean Harkin, Tom Hannigan, Michael McMonagle, Molly Phillips, Marie Sauvé, Emer O'Shea and Irene Gutiérrez 

Special thanks: Francis Jones (Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive) and Kasandra O'Connell (IFI Irish Film Archive) 

Nerve Centre: Diana Cheung, Niall Kerr, Joe Carlin, Richard Taylor, Mik O'Connell and Laura Aguair 

Thanks to Silvia Almenara-Niebla, Yazan Badran, Bart De Rauw, Jay McGlinchey, Bernard Donaghey, Mohammed Firdose (aka FD), Marie Sauvé and Lennatt Soberon

Queen's University Belfast: Katy Hayward, Cathal McCall, Des O'Rawe and Cahal McLaughlin 

© Belgium - Ireland - Northern Ireland 2023 

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