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Lisa Gerig

The Hearing Puts a Human Face on a Hidden Asylum Process

by Pat Mullen
April 27, 2023
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An interview with The Hearing director Lisa Gerig about her documentary that opens up Switzerland's process for evaluating asylum applications.

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