Event Details
The Bridge is a 30-minute fictional film about humanitarian interpreting in Kakuma refugee camp that grew out of pandemic fieldwork. Created by six refugee interpreters in Kenya, and the anthropologist who worked with them, The Bridge explores the labor conditions of being an interpreter while also being a refugee under the governance of humanitarian aid. The Bridge depicts the multilingual nature of the camp and focuses on issues specific to interpreters in the field (lack of training, rejection by other refugee clients due to their ethnicity, the experience of nightmares and other consequences of the trauma associated with interpreting difficult cases). Most poignantly, the film depicts a lack of respect for interpreting work and its hidden centrality to the operations of international organizations in refugee camps. The film will be introduced by anthropologist Laura Kunreuther, who conducted the research with six interpreters in Kakuma and was cast as one character in the film. After the screening, the director (Kamoso Bertrand) and two other members of the Kakuma production team (Mulki Mohamed Ali and Adam Mohamed Bashir) will join via Zoom for a discussion about the film and its production. All are welcome to join us for the screening and a pizza lunch!
