“At the beginning I wanted to create a film about love. I started to interview people in the Netherlands and after a while, I noticed that I am choosing to interview immigrants and more specifically couples of immigrants. How moving to a new country influences their relationship? What happens when one follows the other? In those days my boyfriend was preparing to move to the Netherlands to join me as I was studying there. The different situations from a very passionate romantic meeting every few months to living together in a foreign country are ambivalent: on the one hand the happiness of sharing our life together and on the other hand, dealing with the problems of immigration that get worse since one followed the other. Does immigration damage the relationship or rather opens up new possibilities as in the case of some of my interviewers? In the movie, there are interviews with the people who were the first to immigrate and with their loved ones that followed. Finally, despite the prices, the difficulties and challenges the movie is about love.”

Daphna Awadish is an Israeli filmmaker and illustrator living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She specialized in creating animated documentaries and works as an independent illustrator and animator.

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