Film Update

In these excerpts from the web documentary The World Is Like That, Special Flight filmmaker Fernand Melgar visits Geordry, Dia, Ragip and Wandifa in their home countries after their deportations from Frambois detention center in Switzerland by special flight.

Geordry

Dia

Ragip

Wandifa

Somber and beautifully modulated...There isn't a slack moment...everything rings true...The director also shows dignity, not to mention courage.

— Mike Hale, The New York Times

The fly-on-the-wall style of the film... recalls the institutional documentaries of Frederick Wiseman (and there are no finer documentaries to recall). Does it have something to say about American issues to an American audience? You bet it does.

— Robert Lloyd,The Los Angeles Times

The docu's subjects get under the skin, and their plight represents one of the major challenges to immigration policy not just in Switzerland, but in the First World as a whole.

— Jay Weissberg,Variety