British writer-director Olly Ginelli has released the trailer for his timely short film The Long Spring ahead of its fall festival appearances.

The 15-minute project is inspired by Ginelli’s time volunteering at the Dunkirk refugee camp in France, when he met and became close friends with a Kurdish man, Saady. Forced to flee the territorial control of ISIS with just the clothes on his back in 2015, upon his arrival in the U.K., Saady’s perilous journey inspired The Long Spring.

“There were a few things that I noticed when I was there that I was quite surprised at,” Ginelli tells The Hollywood Reporter about the story behind his new film. “Number one was the presence of organized crime in the camps — it’s hard to fathom the fact that people would take advantage of the most desperate

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