L' Audition (The Hearing)
Die Anhörung![](https://fifdh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1453598-1280x536.jpeg)
Four asylum seekers relive their asylum hearings with the authorities. In a muted production, the audience is made aware of the burden of the procedures and the vital issues at stake for asylum seekers. Lisa Gerig subtly raises essential questions: what happens when your future depends on your ability to tell your own story convincingly? A subtle demonstration of the contradictions of the Swiss asylum system.
Cinema release: 27.03.2024
Maurizius Stärkle Drux
Eva Vitija (Switzerland)
Maurizius Staerkle Drux (Switzerland)
Ensemble Film
Lisa Gerig (Switzerland)
- Raising awareness through film screenings and TV broadcasts, the general public, the concerned authorities and their staff as well as law enforcement parties are to be made aware of the problems of the current asylum legislation and its implementation. There should be room for fundamental questions about the legitimacy of selection of asylum seekers, and for discussing the actual shortcomings of the asylum procedures.
- Concrete improvement measures on the part of the authorities. For example, the handling of traumatized asylum seekers in interviews should be drastically improved.
- Adapt the law / expand the concept of refugee: At the level of monitoring legislation and its equitable implementation, gender and other new reasons for flight such as global warming must be taken into account in defining a reason for flight that is relevant to asylum.
- Sensitizing young audiences to the problems of flight and asylum by having school screenings embedded in accompanying lessons on these themes.
- We want to encourage political organizations to organize pre-premieres with a combined film programme and discussions.
- We want to organize closed-door screenings with representatives and employees of the SEM, which will be accompanied by discussions with specialists in the field of trauma. We want to organize accompanied film screenings for parliamentarians in Switzerland and for UNHCR representatives.
- For the theatrical distribution we’re looking for cooperation with schools, especially through the association Kinokultur in der Schule, a Swiss organisations specialising in bringing films to schools with a combined educational program.
Lisa Gerig (Switzerland)
Organisations
Solinetz Zürich
Amnesty international
Solidarité sans frontières
Film funds and agencies
Federal Office of Culture
Zurich Film Foundation
Swissfilms
Distribution and sales
Outside the Box
Rise and Shine
Broadcasters
Swiss Television SRF and SRG
Kinokultur für die Schule / Cineculture, cinéma pour l’école
Organisations
Solinetz Zürich
Amnesty international
Solidarité sans frontières
Film funds and agencies
Federal Office of Culture
Zurich Film Foundation
Swissfilms
Distribution and sales
Outside the Box
Rise and Shine
Broadcasters
Swiss Television SRF and SRG
Kinokultur für die Schule / Cineculture, cinéma pour l’école