A film work by SUPERFLEX and Tuan Andrew Nguyen portraying a boatbuilder on the island of Anjouan, in the Comoro Islands. The boats are usually used for fishing but in many cases also to
transport migrants to the neighbouring island of Mayotte, a French oversea territory and the outermost region of the EU. The island of Mayotte is 70 kilometers away from Anjouan, which is
the distance the migrants have to travel across the Indian Ocean to reach Mayotte with a hope to become a European citizen and thereby have brighter looking future. A dangerous and life
threatening journey which has already resulted in more than 10.000 deaths of women, men and children. The film intends to use the construction of the boat as a carrier of migrants on a dangerous ocean in a complex political setup as well as their symbolic meaning as a carrier of dreams of reaching a better life on the other shore.
The film is called KWASSA KWASSA, which is understood as “an unstable boat” in the local language of the Comoro Islands.
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