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When the media began reporting on humanitarian operations about forty years ago, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees was in the process of resettling and repatriating about two million people. Since then, scarcely a year has gone by without some kind of emergency. The populations which flee these crises are part of the "collateral damage" of successive conflicts. Fifty million refugees - one percent of the world's population - are currently living on humanitarian aid, most of them in hastily-set-up emergency camps, washed up like human flotsam and jetsam. Humanitarian Crisis... And then? was filmed in Tanzania, where half a million Burundian refugees are living in fifteen or so camps. They are not allowed to settle permanently in Tanzania, and the longer they stay in exile, the less likely they are ever to return home, but this meagre, anchorless existence is essentially their only option. In this documentary, we visit the camp of Kanembwa, which was set up nearly ten years ago, to try and comprehend what life is like for these long-term refugees, compelled to become totally and permanently dependent on humanitarian aid. This journey into the little-known world of the forgotten victims of crises and emergencies asks some uncomfortable questions about humanitarian aid - a system which ensures that refugees survive, whilst flouting some of their most basic human rights.

France - 2003 - 53 mn - DV Cam - Colour

Director Bernard Debord Script Bernard Debord, Jihan El-Tahri Camera Simon Ross Sound André Rigaut Editing Anita Perez

Production Dominant 7 Productions E-mail : dominant7@free.fr

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