Bolingo. The forest of love tells the story of the journey made by several women from the heart of Africa to North Morocco looking for the “European dream”.
This journey will get into a trip to motherhood in Bolingo or some other awaiting camp settled next to the Moroccan-Spanish border.
Bolingo means love in lingala, the language of a group of congolese migrants that decided to give a little humanity to the migrants drama in the north of Africa. Thus, they created a camp where migrant women could live with their children until circumstances allowed them to cross the border to Europe.
Bolingo. The forest of love shows the way in which these mothers confront their survival and the raising of their children during a unlimited time in a hostile land.
*****
BOLINGO. El bosque del amor plantea el modo en el que diferentes mujeres subsaharianas abandonan su hogar en busca del sueño europeo emprendiendo un viaje que lleva implícito la maternidad de una forma que nunca hubieran imaginado. Al final de su viaje se ven obligadas a crear una vida en los campamentos de espera a través de la rutina, intentando sobrevivir y criar a unos hijos, que en la mayoría de los casos son fruto de una violación, pero a la vez el motor de sus vidas.
Bolingo. The forest of love tells the story of the journey made by several women from the heart of Africa to North Morocco looking for the “European dream”.
