welcome to harmondsworth

Documentary short

Selected Festivals
Mini-Doc Competition | Big Sky Documentary Festival 2019
New Docs Competition | Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2019
Short Docs Competition | Wales International Documentary Festival 2019
Architektur.Film.Sommer Wien 2018

Welcome to Harmondsworth is a short film about a picturesque English village in suburban south-west London that's home both to the oldest largest extant timber structure in the UK - a medieval barn managed by English Heritage - and Europe's largest detention centre, Harmondsworth IRC.

By interweaving the journeys of an ex-detainee’s life in England and a tour group’s trip around the village, the film reports on the injustice of immigration detention and examines where it stands in relation to broader cultural attitudes towards history, nationhood, and belonging.

Director Felix Bazalgette Toby Bull
Cinematography Joshua Hughes

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