Director Daniela Swarowsky

Countries Netherlands

Duration 53 min

Synopsis
Every summer, Dutch youths of Moroccan origin spend their holidays in the native lands of their parents and grandparents in the Moroccan Rif area. Whereas the young Moroccans from the Rif dream of migration and travel to Europe. What happens when both sides meet each other in Morocco during the summer holidays? What do they expect from one another? What do they dream of, and where is home for them? Messages from Paradise #2 is the second part of a trilogy about the myths and dreams of migration and the search for a better life elsewhere. The Messages from Paradise project is a series of fictive dialogues where participants tell their story in front of the camera in an imaginary conversation with an unknown other. Swarowsky also invites the participants to react to the stories of others, creating a dialogue that brings places and people together who would otherwise never meet and connects different stories that would otherwise never be told as one story.