TEMPORARY PERMANENCE
Short documentary

Despite the fact that the escape routes have become fewer and more dangerous, people continue to find their way across oceans and through unreliable landscapes. Often they get stuck somewhere along the way, on the border of a country or a continent. There they are forced to wait. Sometimes weeks, many times months, often years. These are therefor places filled with the constant longing after something permanent and of protection. But also longing after parents, siblings, children and spouses. The longing after the everyday life you had, when you had a place among friends, in workplaces, in the neighbourhood where you grew up.

When the longing grows too strong you call home.

In Temporary Permanence  which takes place in Tijuana (Mexico) on the border to U.S., we get to listen to fragments from these calls. Margarita, who fled her violent husband with their two daughters calls a sister. Fabian calls a brother. Ignacio, who was deported back to Mexico after 35 years in the U.S. calls his wife, which, along with their two children, is still on the other side of the border. Darlyn calls an aunt. Walter calls his mother. Ruben, who has fled an attempted murder with his wife and four children calls an older son still in their hometown.