Displaced. Small Acts of Survival (2021)

'Displaced' is an observational study of two pairs of friends, Iranian and Greek, in Patras, a port in Greece. Two Iranian migrants have been in Patras for many months sleeping on the street. The two friends deal with daily frustrations and boredom, living in the in-between of both trying to claim asylum and trying to go on further into Europe. Patras has high levels of unemployment and economic hardship. Two Greek builders, one a pensioner, one long term unemployed, find a way to survive poverty through friendship and their relationship to the port. Patras port authorities are building a new wall to keep migrants out of the port as well as the Patras residents. Both sets of friends demonstrate through 'small acts of survival', ways in which they refuse to allow their circumstances to dominate them, finding ways to support each other to sustain themselves.