Documentary movie on migrants’ situation in Greece.
Stop Over is a movie directed by Kaveh Bakhtiari in 2013, produced by Louise Productions and Kaléo Films.
In Athens, Amir, an Iranian migrant, has a modest flat that has become a place of transit for migrants who like him have chosen to leave their country.

But Greece is only a stopover, all of the migrants hope to reach other countries.
They find themselves stuck at Amir’s, waiting for ID documents, contacts and the smuggler to (…)

Six days after the “tragedy of Lampedusa”, while the search for the shipwrecked continues and the number of recovered bodies rises daily, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Cecilia Malmström, is sending out a misleading message: the solution to prevent the deaths at sea would be to speed up the installation of Eurosur so as to better detect the boats of refugees at sea, and invest additional resources to launch a large scale search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean, (…)

Analysis of the main findings and visits’ report

The campaign of parliamentary visits to migrant detention sites was launched on 24 April 2013 at the European Parliament .
Over three months, members of European and national parliaments took action, asserting their right – guaranteed by law - to visit detention sites, in order to strengthen citizen surveillance of these structures, to underline the need for transparency and to give greater visibility to problems related to the detention of migrants. These visits aimed to encourage reform (…)