Midnight Traveler (2019)

Directed by

Hassan Fazili

Genre

documentary film, war film

Country

Qatar, United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

15

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A family documents their own desperate escape from Afghanistan to Europe using three smartphones over three years. The film follows their struggles for safety and a place to call home.

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What happens

Midnight Traveler is a 2019 documentary film directed by Hassan Fazili. Filmed on three smartphones by Fazili and his wife, Fatima Hussaini, and their two daughters, it chronicles their three-year journey from their home in Afghanistan to Europe in search for asylum. The film premiered in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2019, where it won the Special Jury Award for No Borders. It also screened in the Panorama section at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2019, where it won the second prize in the documentary section. It was nominated for Best Documentary at the 2019 Gotham Independent Film Awards. PBS aired the film as part of the POV series on December 30, 2019. As an episode of the series, the film received a Peabody Award in 2020. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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