Red Lounge: Film series on behalf of international migrant and refugee Rights

Wednesday, 12th of December at 7:00 pm (19:00)

Cinema committed to Social change:

The Wall and the Desert - El Muro y el Desierto

A documentary by Pablo Gleason

Mexico 2006 || 90 minutes || Spanish with English subtitles

The Wall and the Desert takes a close look at immigration from Mexico to the United States. The film maker spent time on the border, interviewing people and learning about the conditions in which people put themselves for a chance to cross into the United States.

The U.S.-Mexico border is one of the busiest in the world, the longest and most dramatic meeting point of a rich and poor country, and the site of intense confrontation between
lawenforcement and law evasion. At a time when economic globalization is seen opening borders throughout the world, the prosperous industrialised countries enforce their boundaries.

This wall in the desert is another case in point of an asymmetric market in which capital can circulate freely but the movement labor, the only abundant resource of poor countries, is strictly limited. That way the prosperity that can come from globalization is being denied to millions of people.

Thanks to:

Pablo Gleason, the director of this film for his friendly permission to screen his movie in the Red Lounge.

The “Bata” cooperative and the “El imagen del Sur” - Filmfestival for social cinema, Cordoba, Spain

Pierre Klochendler for bringing us in contact with Pablo Gleason and other film makers
commited to Cinema as a tool for social change.

Wed, 19.12.2007 at 7pm

Red Lounge in the Willy Brandt Center
22, Ein Rogel St, Jerusalem - Abu Tor