It’s a Long Way from Amphioxus

In a cold waiting room at an immigration office in Berlin, everything boils down to bureaucracy. It’s a Long Way from Amphioxus shows how people are turned into numbers and life stories converted into statistical data. In a film with almost no dialogue, a brief moment of humanity emerges in a conversation between an elderly woman and a young man, who share the long wait. Kamal Aljafari observes, with surreal humor, the trajectory of human existence — from its primitive origins to the complex labyrinths of contemporary bureaucracy.