Along one of the oldest access roads to London, Marc Isaacs paints a picture of migration, hope and loneliness. In everyday encounters with people who have arrived in Britain, been stranded here or have lived here for decades, he uses the power of his quiet voice to tell stories of arrival and alienation, of the desire to belong and the search for a better life. There is Keelta, a young Irish woman hoping for a new life; Brigitte, looking back on her failed marriage; and Iqbal, longing for his wife. The street is a lifeline and a projection screen for movement and change, but also for uprooting and stagnation.
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Marc Isaacs
It is the supposedly insignificant people who interest Marc Isaacs, those on the fringes of society, on the margins. Not as exotic stereotypes or bizarre illustrations, but as seismographs of the present and its upheavals. In his films, Isaacs shows the casual everyday life of his protagonists. He lets them speak for themselves, and we observe how they deal - just as casually - with the great issues of the present: identity, hope, fear. Marc Isaacs is a radical humanist.
Isaacs came to documentary film in 1995 as an assistant producer at the BBC. He went on to work as an assistant to Pawel Pawlikowski. He made his first film, LIFT, in 2001.
