An 18-minute gut-punch about a child forced to choose between truth and survival.
Dijo is an eleven-year-old orphaned refugee from the country of Congo. One day a police officer arrives at his school. He is investigating a murder. Dijo is identified as witness to the crime.
Acting
Evy Makuena's silent reactions speak louder than any dialogue.
Direction
Alyasin lets dread build through bureaucratic mundanity.
Director
Cameron B. Alyasin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Belgium with Congolese-Belgian talent, the film weaponizes Europe's own immigration bureaucracy against itself.
The title references the impossibility of forgiveness or resolution within systems designed to discard refugees—there is no absolution because there was never accountability.
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