
English: 
(buzzing)
(dramatic classical music)
- [Narrator] In 1989, France celebrated
the 200th anniversary
of the signing of the Rights
of Man and of the Citizen.
(speaking in foreign language)
At the time, it was consistently referred
to as the Rights of Man.
(speaking in foreign language)
So, I did this performance
piece outside of the Louvre.
As Hannah Arendt made me aware,
the real question is
the status of the and,
the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
How are they linked?
How shall they be linked?
I'm aware of the irony
of trying to get our film
No Human is Illegal into
a major film festival
when its topic is undocumented migrants

French: 
Les réfugiés du Camp Moria
retenus et attendant la décision
finale à propos de leur demande d'asile.
Deuxième anniversaire de la
Zone au sein de la zone Euro
Avril 2018 représente le
deuxième anniversaire de notre

English: 
wishing to be classified as refugees
so they can stay inside Europe.
Europe is defined as the European Union,
a major economic block that is supposed
to respect human rights
especially given it history
in connection to stateless human beings
in the time between the two World Wars
and yet the refugees detained on Lesvos
are kept in horrendous conditions
without functioning sanitation,
without adequate water or food or housing.
This is being done by the European Union
to send a message to other
potential undocumented immigrants
that this hell awaits them.
Valentina Caniglia, our
directory of photography
was working with anamorphic Cooke lenses.
We wanted to show the refugees differently
than how they are usually
pictured, in overcrowded boats,
speaking without translation, languages
most Europeans and
Americans do not understand.

French: 
arrivée à Lesvos avec notre
caméra et nous avons filmé
le début de ce qui est sans
doute l'un des évenements
historique et politique les
plus sombres du début du
21ème siècle: la fondation d'une
zone d'exclusion au sein de
la zone Euro.
Fin Mars 2016, la Commission
Européenne a déclaré:
"Tous les migrants irréguliers
qui tentent de passer de
Turquie vers les îles grèques
seront, à partir du 20 Mars
2016, seront renvoyés en Turquie."
- - Conseil de l'Union
Européenne, 18 Mars 2016
A peine quelques jours plus
tard, nous étions à Lesvos
à interviewer les gens qui
faisaient l'expérience, pour
la première fois, de camps,
construits dans le but de

English: 
Instead of showing the
refugees tightly crammed
into boats, in tightly framed images,
we wanted literally and figuratively
to give them space.
Most of the refugees that we filmed
on the island two years ago
are still detained there,
waiting to find out if
they can stay in Europe,
effectively to get into Europe
and we are trying to get our
film into a major festival,
a kind of major economic
block for moving images.
(lively music)
(buzzing)

French: 
détenir des gens, transformés
en camps de concentration
où les gens sont aujourd'hui
maintenus captifs indéfiniment.
Réalisé avec la coopérations
de bénévoles, les gens de l'île
et les réfugiés. NO HUMAN IS
ILLEGAL est un film qui traite
de cette confrontation
majeure entre les principes
fondateurs de la zone Euro
et la réalité actuelle.
