L'Abri

Nervousness, stress and bursts of violence in front of a bunker in the Swiss town of Lausanne, where every night in winter homeless people – most of them immigrants – undergo selection. The old bunker is an emergency shelter, but the number of people looking for a bed is more than the facility can handle. First women and children, the aged and handicapped, then the men. All of the participants in this ritual are under mental pressure. Shot in a combination of static long shots and close-ups of the arguing people, the film looks at the microcosm of stories of people caught in a vicious bureaucratic circle. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)