“另一半”导演乔戈斯·穆塔菲斯（Giorgos Moutafis）对乌克兰难民的困境：“什么都没有改变”
‘The Other Half’ Director Giorgos Moutafis on Plight of Ukraine’s Refugees: ‘Nothing Has Changed’
当希腊摄影记者和纪录片制片人Giorgos Moutafis到达Irpin时，激烈的炮击已经开始，这是Kyiv的郊区，这是俄罗斯在乌克兰各地无情的军事前进的道路上。美国电影制片人和新闻记者在他和他的电影摄制组被俄罗斯军队枪杀后被杀害。几分钟后，穆塔菲斯（Moutafis）出现在现场。“当我们到达城市时，我们看到救援队撤离了尸体。我看到他们把他带到床单里。”“早些时候，我看到他的朋友，另一位摄影师胡安·阿雷多多（Juan Arredondo）（在袭击中受伤）。我对他说：“朋友，我该怎么办？”他说：“请找到我的朋友，他被抛在后面。'这是一个可怕的时刻。”穆塔菲斯（Moutafis）”世界本周在塞萨洛尼基首映纪录片节已经花费了十多年的时间来记录难民涌入欧洲。在IMEDD（媒体教育与发展孵化器）的支持下，他的导演处女作《 2009年至2021年在希腊边界》中，在爱琴海，在爱琴海和北马其顿，在马其顿，阿尔巴尼亚，塞尔维亚和turkey.docormenting of the Heece Borders撰写的录像乌克兰的战争以及在那里和东欧正在进行的人道主义危机，这标志着穆塔菲斯一生的工作令人遗憾。 “作为摄影师，我见过10位不同的总理，部长。我看过栅栏，边界，沉船。”他说。 “所有这15年都是恶性循环。穆塔菲斯（Moutafis）于2月13日到达基辅（Kyiv），担任德国报纸Bild的任务。当俄罗斯军队沿着与乌克兰的边界大规模，他是最早开始报告的记者之一，许多观察家开始怀疑入侵即将发生。介绍了2月24日发起的规模和强度的攻击。“我想，‘多么美丽的城市。我们将在广场上喝咖啡。一切都会好起来的，’”他说。 “没有人认为战争会来到这里。而且，它一天开始了。”在几天的残酷日子内，东欧国家的生活被完全颠覆了。 “ [乌克兰人]像你和我一样过着正常的生活。他们没想到这种情况。据联合国称，战争已经在乌克兰边界内造成了超过200万难民，并增加了数百万的流离失所。虽然迄今为止在整个非洲大陆的反应表示赞赏，但许多乌克兰人张开双臂欢迎许多乌克兰人，但穆塔菲斯仍然坚持认为，欧洲人避免了双重标准的人，因为他们如何对待弱势群体逃离外国土地。量表。战争到处都是同样的事情，”他说。 “我们不能说UKR阿纳人，阿富汗人，叙利亚人的伤害不同。每个人的痛苦都是一样的。“我不想将乌克兰人与其他难民区分开。难民是同一个人。”他继续说道。 “就像过去一样，我们的父母和祖父母去了美国。穆塔菲斯（Moutafis）的祖父和同名人物是被迫在现代土耳其和黑人周围邻近地区被迫逃离暴力的一百万族裔希腊人和同名人物之一， 1920年代的海洋 - 他与许多同胞共享的遗产。董事说：“他正好在100年前与这些难民相同的旅程。” “我们的血液中都有这个。”“另一半”部分是对由难民危机对导演产生的个人影响的“认罪”，他花了15年的时间目睹并记录了第一手记录。 “我已经生活了这种情况。我走了，我睡了，我吃了，我哭了，受伤了，我携带死者。我是这个故事的一部分，”他说。 “我制作的这部电影呈现了一个真理，我的真理和那些跨越边界的人的真理 - 移民的真相，难民的真相。关于难民危机如何塑造他的个人，他决心在电影中扮演外围角色。他说：“我认为人们对我的感受不感兴趣。” “我这样做，以便人们了解难民的感受以及边境实际发生的事情。不公正。难民向前迈进，他们将他们送回。他们走得更远，然后将它们送回。穆塔菲斯（Moutafis）在3月18日首映之前，有些人死了，没有这些人犯任何犯罪。认为这是不足的。 “这项工作是我自己的向决策者发表评论。”他说。“对我来说，如果那些人看电影并做出正确的选择，那将是成功。”就他而言，穆塔菲斯（Moutafis）被迫在庆祝乌克兰的两周内离开希腊的艰难决定，以记录乌克兰的战争。女儿的出生。他们可能会又一个月才重聚。导演希望通过视频通话在他的电影的塞萨洛尼基（Thessaloniki）首映式上向观众讲话，当时的事件使他无法尽快返回希腊。他说：“不幸的是，战争没有到期日期。”
The intense shelling had already commenced when Greek photojournalist and documentary filmmaker Giorgos Moutafis arrived in Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv that lay in the path of Russia’s relentless military advance across Ukraine.
It was in the midst of the chaotic evacuation on March 13 that Brent Renaud, an American filmmaker and journalist, was killed after he and his film crew were shot at by Russian troops. Moutafis appeared on the scene just minutes later.
“When we arrived in the city, we saw the rescue team evacuating the bodies. I saw them carrying him inside a sheet,” said Moutafis, speaking to Variety by phone from Kyiv. “A little earlier I saw his friend, another photographer, Juan Arredondo [who was wounded in the attack]. I said to him, ‘Friend, what can I do to help?’ And he said, ‘Please find my friend, he was left behind.’ It was a terrible moment.”
Moutafis, whose feature-length documentary “The Other Half” world premieres this week at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, has spent more than a decade chronicling the influx of refugees into Europe. Produced with the support of iMEdD (Incubator for Media Education and Development), his directorial debut compiles footage taken by the veteran photojournalist between 2009 and 2021 on Greece’s borders, in the Aegean Sea, and in North Macedonia, Albania, Serbia and Turkey.
Documenting the war in Ukraine, and the ongoing humanitarian crisis unfolding there and across Eastern Europe, has marked a sad continuation of Moutafis’ life’s work. “As a photographer, I’ve seen 10 different prime ministers, ministers. I’ve seen fences, borders, shipwrecks,” he said. “All these 15 years are a vicious cycle. Nothing has changed.”
Moutafis arrived in Kyiv on Feb. 13 on assignment for the German newspaper Bild. He was among the first journalists to begin reporting as Russian troops massed along the border with Ukraine, and many observers started to suspect an invasion was imminent.
Yet few on-lookers expected an attack of the scale and intensity that was launched on Feb. 24. “I thought, ‘What a beautiful city. We’ll drink a coffee in the square. Everything will be okay,’” he said. “No one thought the war would come here. And day by day, it started." Within the span of a few brutal days, life in the Eastern European nation was completely upended. “[The Ukrainians] had a normal life like you and me. They didn’t expect this condition. But you never know when war will knock on your door.”
According to the United Nations, that war has already created more than two million refugees and displaced millions more within Ukraine’s borders. While appreciative of the response so far across the continent, where many Ukrainians have been welcomed with open arms, Moutafis was nevertheless insistent that Europeans avoid a double-standard in how they treat vulnerable populations fleeing foreign lands.
“War can’t be measured on a scale. War hurts the same everywhere,” he said. “We can’t say that the Ukrainians, the Afghans, the Syrians hurt differently. The pain is the same for everyone.
“I don’t want to separate the Ukrainians from the other refugees. The refugees are the same people,” he continued. “Just like in the past, our parents and grandparents had gone to America. Whether it’s because of the economic situation or because of war, no one wants to leave their home.”
Moutafis’ grandfather and namesake was among the more than one million ethnic Greeks forced to flee violence in modern-day Turkey and neighboring regions around the Black Sea in the 1920s – a heritage he shares with many of his countrymen. “He made the same journey as these refugees exactly 100 years ago,” said the director. “We have this in our blood.”
“The Other Half” is partly a “confession” of the personal impact made on the director by a refugee crisis he’s spent 15 years witnessing and documenting firsthand. “I’ve lived this situation. I’ve walked, I’ve slept, I’ve eaten, I’ve cried, I’ve hurt, I’ve carried the dead. I’m a part of this story,” he said. “This film that I made presents a truth, my truth, and the truth of those people who cross the borders – the truth of the immigrants, the truth of the refugees.”
Though the director turned the camera on himself to record an emotional testimonial of how the refugee crisis has shaped him personally, he was determined to play a peripheral role in the film. “I don’t think people are interested in how I feel,” he said. “I do this so people will understand how the refugees feel and what is actually happening at the border. The injustices. The refugees move forward, and they send them back. They go a little further, and they send them back. Some cry, others die, without these people having committed any crime.”
Ahead of the film’s March 18 premiere, Moutafis said his greatest hope was that “The Other Half” would make an impact in the capitals of Europe, whose policy toward refugees he sees as woefully inadequate. “This work is my own comment to the decision-makers,” he said. “For me, that would be the success, if those people watch the film and make the right choices.”
For his part, Moutafis was forced to make the difficult decision to leave Greece to document the war in Ukraine just two weeks after celebrating the birth of a daughter. It will likely be another month before they’re reunited. The director hopes to address the audience at his film’s Thessaloniki premiere by video call, with current events preventing him from returning to Greece sooner. "Unfortunately, war doesn’t have an expiration date," he said.
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