Sorry, No Vacancies

Désolé, complet!

Switzerland / United Kingdom / Germany, November 2001
FILM, Documentary, 63 min.

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directed by
Marie-Jeanne Urech
Status
In distribution

A bed & breakfast hotel in London with one hundred bedrooms and a sign on the front door: “No Vacancies”. Two words enough to identify a hotel for “council people”-euphemism for refugees, homeless people, mentally disturbed and others who have their accommodation paid and arranged by the local Council while they do not have a permanent place to live. One hotel but different worlds: they come from Afghanistan, Equador, Pakistan or Scotland, they lived on streets, had their family killed in their country or suffered from post-traumatic disorders, they are muslim, catholic or hinduist, some don't speak a word of English, others have been brought up in England, they are in “hotels” since 2 weeks, 7 months or 5 years, their names are Saeed, Monica, Riad or Denise. Shot over a three months period “Sorry, no vacancies” is a film about a closed and transitional universe in which eight residents try to re-organise their world having nothing in common but a difficult past.

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World Premiere
November 2001
Original Version
English (french subtitles),  colour, Digi Beta, 63 min.
Production
Françoise Rapin, The London Film School, Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Producer
directed by
Marie-Jeanne Urech
Cinemato­graphy
Marie-Jeanne Urech

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World Rights
Françoise Rapin

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