We are Unfinished – a new collective making socially embedded, critical and curious independent films.
We are launching our first project, Dover 82 – a short film by first-time director and migrant justice organiser Aria Danaparamita.
2024 was the deadliest year on record so far for people crossing the English Channel to seek safety in the UK.
Honouring the 82 lives lost, Dover 82 takes a poignant artistic lens to reframe an often polarising issue. Shot entirely on a mobile phone, the film aesthetically contemplates how borders inhabit and shape our relationship to place. Archiving the sites and textures of the border architecture on England’s Kent coast, the film breaks through politicised debates in its visually moving portrait of space and that speaks directly to our senses.
The film is coming out as we are seeing more violent border policies against migrants and refugees. We feel it’s deeply urgent that the film reaches as wide and diverse an audience as possible, and we need your help.
We are seeking to recover production cost, which was done at the lowest possible expense (including voluntary work and significantly reduced rates), as well as marketing and distribution:
Production Pre-production - Concept and research: £50 Production - Shoot: £150 Post-production - Editing: £200 Post-production - Sound mixing: £100 Post-production - Colour grading: £100 Transport and per diem: £100
Marketing and distribution Trailer: £50 Poster design: £50 Copywriting: £200 Digital marketing and distribution: £200 Press kit: £100 DCP: £100 Festival submission fees: - London Independent Film Festival: £53.97 - Sheffield DocFest: £42 - Raindance: £61.95 - BFI London Film Festival: £24 - London Short Film Festival: £15 - IDFA: £35 - DOKLeipzig: £35 - International Film and Human Rights Festival Valencia: £2 - Margate Film Festival: £5 - Open City Doc: £18 - Cinéma du réel: £10
With roughly 5% contingency budget, this rounds to £1,800. If we’re lucky, any further funds raised would go towards our collective’s common pot to fund running costs and future projects.
The film could not have been made without the solidarity and support of many. With your further solidarity, we hope the film can make an impact. Thank you.
More information:
Dover 82 (2025) 5 min, digital, colour Written and directed by Aria Danaparamita Produced by Aria Danaparamita and Alfie Johnson
"Dover 82 provides a poignant look into the port town of Dover, a particular English borderland, where in 2024, 82 people died in attempt to cross the English Channel. Providing a sensorial look at how urban infrastructure gives shape to how we understand and experience space, the film asks viewers to inhabit the (in)visible violence of border regimes. A short, poignant film that transforms observation into a meaningful contemplation on space, place, and the politics of crossing.”
— Dr. Lee Douglas, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths University of London
"By inviting us to rest with the architecture and landscape of a border town at centre of a polarised and hostile political debate around asylum seekers in the UK, the seemingly empty shots create a thought-worthy juxtaposition with the wider dynamic and violent context of migration. Dover 82 asks us as viewers to sit with and investigate what remains invisible and why, as well as pay homage to and make visible those who have lost their life attempting to cross the Channel."
— KONTEKST Film Festival
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