Special Flight
Director Melgar Fernand
Countries Switzerland
Duration 100 min
Synopsis
Awaiting definite deportment from the Swiss territory, men are jailed at the administrative detention centre Frambois. As their request for asylum has failed, they are ordered to leave, some of them after having spent several years in CH, worked, paid taxes, started a family. Although incarceration may last up to 24 months, the deportment is announced without warning and its implementation is imminent. Behind the closed prison doors, tension builds day by day. On one side there are wardens full of humanist values, on the other there are men at the end of their journey, defeated by fear and stress. Relations of friendship and hate, respect and revolt are formed until the announcement of the deportment, which is experienced like a stab. This relationship ends mostly in distress and humiliation. Those who refuse to leave are handcuffed, tied up and forcibly put in a plane. In this extreme situation, despair has a name: special flight.
Awaiting definite deportment from the Swiss territory, men are jailed at the administrative detention centre Frambois. As their request for asylum has failed, they are ordered to leave, some of them after having spent several years in CH, worked, paid taxes, started a family. Although incarceration may last up to 24 months, the deportment is announced without warning and its implementation is imminent. Behind the closed prison doors, tension builds day by day. On one side there are wardens full of humanist values, on the other there are men at the end of their journey, defeated by fear and stress. Relations of friendship and hate, respect and revolt are formed until the announcement of the deportment, which is experienced like a stab. This relationship ends mostly in distress and humiliation. Those who refuse to leave are handcuffed, tied up and forcibly put in a plane. In this extreme situation, despair has a name: special flight.