Untitled Bialowieza Project
(formerly known as “I no longer believe we are good people”)



This hybrid documentary short reconstructs the experience of five young people from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Ethiopia, Yemen, and Syria as they try to cross an ancient forest in northern Europe to seek asylum in the EU. The film incorporates visual testimony (animation), theatrical performance, and vérité footage.

The project received support from the Queens Arts Fund (2023), the Puffin Foundation (2023), CUNY Adjunct Incubator (2025) and NYSCA (2026).



Since 2022, I’ve filmed the migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border, where thousands of migrants cross one of the last primeval forests in Europe to seek asylum in the E.U. Until now, my work has focused on Polish aid volunteers.



Beginning in 2021, Belarus, a Russia-propped dictatorship, artificially created new migration paths—which some describe as state-operated human trafficking—as part of its hybrid attack against the E.U. Since then, thousands of migrants—mostly from Africa and the Middle East—have crossed Białowieża, one of the last primeval forests in Europe, to seek asylum in the E.U. The forest is a natural border, but in response to the migration crisis, which sees over 100 crossings per day, the E.U. countries that border Belarus erected a wall.


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