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Unwelcomed
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Sat 25 Oct 4:15 PM
Odeon Star Semaphore: Cinema 1
General Admission
Unclassified 15+
70 MinsUnwelcomed maps one of the most urgent migration crises of our time. Venezuelan refugees move south across unforgiving terrain, confronting deserts, mountains and oceans in pursuit of survival.
Directors Sebastián González Mendez and Amilcar Infante render this journey with a striking dual perspective. Sweeping aerial imagery offers a sense of epic scale, while intimate testimonies bring audiences to the ground, into the lived experiences of those walking the routes. The film juxtaposes god-like panoramas of caravans tracing ridgelines and coastlines, with the fragile details of human endurance — a mother carrying her child, families navigating checkpoints, young men facing hostility at borders. What emerges is both a geographical portrait and a human one, reflecting resilience, grief, and the criminalisation of displacement.
Winner of the Emerging International Filmmaker Award at Hot Docs 2025, and an official selection of Sydney Film Festival and Sheffield DocFest, Unwelcomed is both expansive and intimate. It reveals a crisis measured not only in numbers and maps, but in the vulnerability of those who keep moving forward.
Directors Sebastián González Mendez and Amilcar Infante render this journey with a striking dual perspective. Sweeping aerial imagery offers a sense of epic scale, while intimate testimonies bring audiences to the ground, into the lived experiences of those walking the routes. The film juxtaposes god-like panoramas of caravans tracing ridgelines and coastlines, with the fragile details of human endurance — a mother carrying her child, families navigating checkpoints, young men facing hostility at borders. What emerges is both a geographical portrait and a human one, reflecting resilience, grief, and the criminalisation of displacement.
Winner of the Emerging International Filmmaker Award at Hot Docs 2025, and an official selection of Sydney Film Festival and Sheffield DocFest, Unwelcomed is both expansive and intimate. It reveals a crisis measured not only in numbers and maps, but in the vulnerability of those who keep moving forward.