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Eritrea is considered one of the worst dictatorships in the world, one of the most unsafe countries in Africa. Difficult to access for crews and journalists.
From Eritrea, in the heart of the Horn of Africa, takes origin one of the main migratory flows that have crossed the Mediterranean in recent years and that has been at the center of some of the most saddest tragedies like the one of October 3, 2013, when off the coast of Lampedusa more than 360 Eritrean lost their lives.
Since Eritrea is known as a “brutal dictatorship”, Eritreans are the main political refugees and they get asylum almost automatically.
Yet, something doesn’t add up, because every summer, migrants return home on vacation. Without any repercussions.
How is it possible they return to the very country they had fled, reporting about war and persecutions?
Journalist Francesca Ronchin has followed them, doing the same return path they do every summer. She has also managed to enter Eritrea, to investigate how things really are on the ground.
The documentary “The Big Lie”, a project of Francesca Ronchin and of the Eritrean contributor Salomon Mebrahtu, has been filmed between Italy, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Switzerland has been produced in an independent way and reveals how the topic of immigration over the years has been treated in a mostly ideological way, endorsing falsifications of reality, thus endangering the lives of the migrants and even harming the African countries.
Directed by Francesca Ronchin (Italy)