dies solis. Sundays in Nicosia
Realizador Marianna Christofides
Países Germany
Duração 57 min
Sinopse
Sundays in Nicosia; thousands of Asian labour migrants meet in the old city of Nicosia to spend together their only day off. During the week they are almost never present in public, they seem to disappear behind the facade of the homes of their employers. These women come to CY from Sri-Lanka, IN, the PH and Vietnam, alone without family or relatives, for a limited period of time in order to work in the household or as carers at home. The film observes the course of this day over a time span of a year. The meeting points of the women lie between two borders, on the one hand the Venetian wall, once separating town from land, on the other the UN-Bufferzone which divides the city and the island in north and south. Contrasting worlds converge in a single place. A place solidified in its historicity shines in a new light - dies solis.
Sundays in Nicosia; thousands of Asian labour migrants meet in the old city of Nicosia to spend together their only day off. During the week they are almost never present in public, they seem to disappear behind the facade of the homes of their employers. These women come to CY from Sri-Lanka, IN, the PH and Vietnam, alone without family or relatives, for a limited period of time in order to work in the household or as carers at home. The film observes the course of this day over a time span of a year. The meeting points of the women lie between two borders, on the one hand the Venetian wall, once separating town from land, on the other the UN-Bufferzone which divides the city and the island in north and south. Contrasting worlds converge in a single place. A place solidified in its historicity shines in a new light - dies solis.