Maria Ivanova

Russia

Maria Ivanova

director, producer

Fleeing the War

The war in the Middle East has become a far bigger event than a local social and religious conflict. It suddenly turned out that this strange war in which Arabs kill Arabs concerns everybody. Sated Europe understood it when thousands of refugees flooded in its territory. Suddenly there appeared a great number of them. A frightening number of them. The global problem is daily being discussed by high rank men in governments and diplomatic missions, but these politicians are not interested in small men, who have fled their destroyed country. The goal of our project is to show a small man's destiny with a global tragedy in the background. This small man is not a terrorist or a thug – he doesn't destroy civilisation. A small man from the Middle East is a broken piece of the Muslim world.