(...) For us, the hosts, organizers and filmmakers who are part of the Remake Film Festival, which this year has the motto "Solidarity with others", this visa procedure makes it clear that solidarity and collective action are being prevented by our democratic states. With increasingly bureaucratic laws, border regimes are being installed that produce arbitrariness and powerlessness, deport people or do not even allow them to enter the country, separate and traumatize people and thus permanently trample on freedom of movement and the demand for equal rights.
