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This project successfully funded on 31st August 2025, you can still support them with a donation.
Help DOVER 82 make an impact!
Dover, Kent, United Kingdom
Aim
At a time of rising violence against migrants and refugees, join us in bringing the film and conversation to communities across the country!
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 is a short documentary and my debut film as a director. In archiving the sites and textures of border architecture on England’s Kent coast, the film takes a poignant artistic lens to reframe an often polarising issue.
Dover 82 is not just a film - it’s about building community at a time of rising hate. Join us in organising grassroots film screenings to spark caring conversations about migration across the country.
This is a film born out of grief, anger, and the desire to take action. As a migrant to this country, I am deeply affected by the UK government’s hostile environment and harmful border policies. I may have shot the film in one day on my phone with no budget. But this small film is part of a much bigger movement.
More than a film, Dover 82 is an invitation to reflect and talk about how borders affect our lives. For its impact campaign, I have been working with local community groups to organising screenings alongside films by other migrant and refugee filmmakers.
In these conversations, we hear directly from refugees and grassroots organisations supporting people seeking asylum from Palestine, Sudan, and beyond. I am also grateful that the film has been chosen to screen at festivals, as well as Amnesty International UK's Refugee Week programme.
With your support the film can reach an even wider audience. (If you’d like to organise something in your local community - please get in touch!)
Your support will go towards recovering the costs of:
Production
Research and development: £150
Production: £300
Editing: £300
Sound mixing: £100
Colour grading: £100
Transport and per diem: £100
Marketing and distribution
Trailer: £100
Poster design: £100
Copywriting: £200
Digital marketing and distribution: £300
Press kit: £100
Community screenings and festivals
Community screening and programming (to cover travel costs, venue hire, etc.): £2,000
Festival submission fees: £400
The film could not have been made without the solidarity and support of many. With your further solidarity, the film can make an impact.
More information:
Dover 82 (2025)
5 min, digital, colour
Written, directed, and produced by Aria Danaparamita
Reviews of Dover 82:
"Beautifully made, moving and gently provocative. It achieves a directness of impact so succinctly without engaging in spectacle."
— Tom Kemp, author of Activism and the Detention of Migrants
"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, Director, Centre for Visual 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 […] 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
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made