Description: REFUGEE ROADS is a documentary about a bicycle journey through Europe. It offers you a fresh and authentic perspective on the events following the so-called '2015-16 refugee crisis' in an accessible format.
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REFUGEE ROADS is a documentary about a bicycle journey through Europe. It offers you a fresh and authentic perspective on the events following the so-called '2015-16 refugee crisis' in an accessible format.
Timo Schmidt and Florian Volz, two German students from The Hague, set off in June 2016 to explore the situation of refugees and migrants in Europe with their bicycles. The 71-day journey starts in the Netherlands and leads via France, Austria, Hungary, Serbia to Lesbos, Greece. In other words: they cycled in the opposite direction along the 'Refugee Road'. Motivated to find out how migration and asylum practices have changed since the formal border closures along the Balkan route in March 2016, Timo and Fl
In spring 2019, Timo and Florian set off again to visit refugee camps, transit centres, organisations and local communities to capture the current situation. The documentary therefore enables audiences to trace the developments of the period between 2016 and 2019. This journey offers a close insight into a time that has profoundly changed migration policies in Europe and beyond, and has catalysed public debate on migration in the face of nativist populism. What has changed in the last three years? And how h