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WHERE THE WORLD ENDS
BORDERLINE SERIES

2021
52’, DOCUMENTARY

Director of Photography
TANYA HAURYLCHYK

Editors
PIERPAOLO FILOMENO
THOMAS POOTERS

PRODUCTION DETAILS
a Off World production

in co-production with
VRT-CANVAS

in co-production with
In_Script
Relation04 Media
Kinoteka
Umedia in association with Ufund

with the Support from
Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF|MEDIA)
Screen Brussels | Brussels Capital Region
The Belgian Federal Government Tax Shelter
Norwegian Film Center
Filmfond Nord
Creative Europe Programme - MEDIA of the European Union





One hour drive from Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, everyone has to pass a strict border control, when leaving the “Free West” towards Belarus. Crossing this border is a time consuming and almost absurd performance. However, there are people who are confronted with this border on a daily basis, where the border literally cuts through their backyard. What used to be a daily routine of paying a visit to relatives or friends, going to church or to the cemetery now became a complicated process involving crosspoint schedules, visa and other complicated bureaucratic procedures. A great example of forgotten 'European outskirts', the paradox of the free Schengen region which here is dividing communities, families and lives.

BORDERLINE SERIES
Authentic border stories across Europe reveal the controversy and complexity of what symbolic dots and lines on the map could become when cutting into actual people’s life.

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