Eliza Petkova

Mar 30, 2025 | dmovies.org | Marina Richter |Eliza Petkova |Roisin Agnew |Sinéad O' Shea

</span>Where do you draw a border between the observational documentary and the silent acceptance of the tragedy unfolding in front of your eyes? Images of the lifeless body of the two-year-old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi lying on a Turkish beach in 2015 did not leave an eye dry (except maybe for far rights activists and racists insensitive to the tragedy of anyone who is not white, Christian or maybe Jewish). Are we entitled to feed on visual representations of people’s suffering?