THOSE WHO BURN THE BORDERS - Screening - Input - Discussion

⁨A guerrilla documentary directed by Iflis with Cadre Cagoulé

Harraga comes from the Arabic حرق (harraq), meaning to burn.

Burn the border. Burn the paper that claims to decide how far your body is allowed to go. Burn the permission you were never given.

THOSE WHO BURN THE BORDERS is a guerrilla documentary filmed since October 2024 across Morocco, Ceuta and Europe, alongside the harragas.

The film was born following the collective attempt to cross the border into Ceuta on September 15, 2024. At the same time, Iflis, the film’s director, was banned from leaving Morocco, accused of undermining public security and disturbing the faith of a Muslim. Two years of filming under repression, of encounters, crossings, deportations, uprisings and resistance.

Ceuta is a North African territory within spanish borders, and south EU-externalized border control region, where thousands of migrants currently live trapped in the city since the massive entry on 30-31st July this year. They are forced to survive on the streets, facing daily police and military violence, and since last month, mass deportations. Overall, a border system of control and apartheid, in a strategy designed to psychologically exhaust them and force them to return to Morocco, with attacks that increased alongside with the fascist hatred.

This migratory context is understood if we put some focus on the current repressive state of Morocco, which converts the reality of an imposed future and the limits enclosed by a document, from a dream of freedom to a disobedience need. The documentary “Those Who Burn The Borders”, with full release in February 2027, provides a great perspective on the Moroccan social resistance, and dignity to this civil disobedience.

Afterwards, a volunteer from No Name Kitchen will explain her recent experience in Ceuta detailing the violence and human rights violations on the people on the move she witnessed and accompanied, along with the work of the NNK and the current repression the NGO is facing. And we will leave space open for questions and collective reflections.

12.11.2026 @ekh start 20:00 in medienwerkstatt