If you can’t stay, and you can’t return, where do you go?

Nowhere To Go is a feature-length documentary film which examines the narrowing of asylum protections in Europe and the political forces shaping them. Filmed over four years across Poland, France and the UK, the film traces the experiences of Alex and John, who separately cross from Belarus into Poland, spend time in Germany and survive repeated evictions in France before making it across The Channel in a small boat. 

Meanwhile governments introduce increasingly restrictive measures and migration becomes a focal point of public debate, obscuring the realities faced by those caught within the system. Drawing on lived experience and on-the-ground insight gained through time spent in the field with humanitarian groups, the film reveals how costly deterrence policies appear ineffective and serve only to increase suffering. It explores why people attempt dangerous crossings from countries considered safe, and how smuggling routes emerge in the absence of viable alternatives.

At a moment when much of what shapes these journeys remains unseen, Nowhere To Go offers a closer look at how the system functions in practice, and how its consequences are felt both by those navigating it and by the communities around them.