Trapped in a broken system. Built on misinformation, sometimes even intentionally created, and a lack of empathy. The machinery of deportation.
It is easy to call for deportations from the outside. It is much harder to live with the possibility of being deported every single day. The result: living in fear, caught between the unknowns of the place you escaped from and the one you now call home

Dreamers, directed by Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor, looks directly at what society prefers to ignore. At the places where people are reduced to case numbers. A detention center with narrow corridors, harsh fluorescent lights, and security staff you would not dare to trust. And yet, paradoxically, this bleak environment creates friendships and connections. Women meet here who share far more than their legal status: trauma, loss, and above all the desire to finally arrive somewhere.

Between Isio and Farah, a closeness develops, almost invisible within the daily routine of the center. A love story that isn’t meant to exist in a place like this. Maybe that is why it feels like such a rare moment of normalcy. A normalcy that, in many of their home countries, is not only discouraged but considered forbidden.