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Migration is one of the hot-button issues of our time, dividing people on TV and mobile screens and at dinner tables and bars in many countries around the world. In the heat of some of the more heated debates, the human stories sometimes may get sidelined, or maybe even forgotten.<\/p>\n
Director Marta Bergman<\/a>\u2019s new feature, migrant drama The Silent Run<\/em> (L\u2019enfant b\u00e9lier<\/em>), which she wrote in collaboration with Camille Mol, Ely Chevillot, and Sacha Ferbus, focuses on such a human gaze.<\/p>\n More from The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Ahead of its world premiere at the Cairo Film Festival<\/a> on Friday, THR<\/em> can unveil two exclusive clips for the movie.<\/p>\n \u201cIn a van crammed with 20 migrants, the young couple sing a lullaby to their daughter, Klara,\u201d who is two years old, reads a synopsis for the film. \u201cThey hope to reach England. Pursued by police vehicles, the smugglers panic.\u00a0A chase begins.\u00a0A shot pierces the night.\u201d<\/p>\n Klara\u2019s parents, Sara and Adam, have entered Belgium illegally with her and are trying to reach England in a van with other migrants that is driven by people smugglers. Redouane, a 20-year police veteran who spends his nights chasing smugglers on Belgium\u2019s busy motorway network, also features in the film. \u201cThat night, as his team attempts to stop a van suspected of transporting migrants, everything changes,\u201d according to the synopsis.<\/p>\n The film stars Salim Kechiouche<\/a>,\u00a0Zbeida Belhajamor, Abdal Razak Alsweha, and Clara Toros. The producers are Cassandre Warnauts, Jean-Yves Roubin, Genevi\u00e8ve Lavoie, and Richard Angers. B-Rated International is handling sales.<\/p>\n Romanian filmmaker Bergman has written and directed several films that explore the boundary between fiction and documentary. Her first feature-length fiction film, Alone at My Wedding<\/a><\/em>, screened at Cannes in 2018 and also featured this hybrid approach.<\/p>\n The Silent Run<\/em> wants to explore \u201clives broken by a political system,\u201d she said about the film. \u201cI wanted to question that system and its compromises with the truth \u2013\u00a0to make a film embodied by complex characters, where the audience would plunge into each person\u2019s contradictions and inner turmoil.\u201d And she \u201cwanted to question, through cinema, our relationship to the other,\u201d she added. \u201cAt the risk of dividing audiences, I preferred debate over comfort.\u201d<\/p>\n That is why the movie stays away from painting \u201ca broad, general picture of \u2018migrants\u2019 and \u2018the police\u2019,\u201d she concluded. Instead, \u201cI wrote the protagonists from the inside \u2014 through their desires and struggles.\u201d<\/p>\n The first clip from the film, which THR<\/em> can now unveil, shows the loving parents as they take a family video with Klara on a mobile phone, followed by some impromptu dancing.<\/p>\n In Clip 2, the mood has darkened. It features much more tense scenes in the van full of migrants, along with a first glimpse of the police in chase mode.<\/p>\n Watch the second clip from The Silent Run<\/em> here.<\/p>\n Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Migration is one of the hot-button issues of our time, dividing people on TV and mobile screens and at dinner tables and bars in many countries around the world. In the heat of some of the more heated debates, the human stories sometimes may get sidelined, or maybe even forgotten. 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