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‘All Is Well’ Filmmakers on Chronicling the Life of Ukrainian Refugees in Amsterdam Amid Far-Right Rise: ‘Our Friends Ask How This Could Happen’
‘All Is Well’ filmmakers on capturing the life of refugees in Amsterdam, visiting war-torn Ukraine and ‘shame’ about the Dutch far-right rise.
Speaking about the initial inspiration for the documentary, Peter mentioned the “right-wing narrative” that the Netherlands “can’t take care of refugees and must send them home.” “There is also a sentiment that people are ‘getting tired of the war in Ukraine,’ which is completely crazy. Her grief is externalised in heartbreaking sobs that cut through the silence of the shelter as night falls, the immensity of her loss almost impossible to comprehend. Also peppered throughout “All Is Well” are snippets of inflammatory speeches by the Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders, whose policies are largely exclusionary of refugees and immigrants.
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