This Jungo Life

country, year

Australia, Refugee, 2024

genre

documentary

running time

78′

directed by

David Fedele

languages

English, Arabic

subtitles 

English subtitles

about the film

This Jungo Life is a collaboration between filmmaker David Fedele, and a group of young refugees and asylum seekers from Sudan and South Sudan, who are living and sleeping rough on the streets of Morocco. They call themselves “Jungo” – A name traditionally given to seasonal agricultural workers from Sudan, which is now also adopted by refugees, asylum seekers and migrants on the road. Most have arrived in Morocco since 2020, forced to flee violence and instability in Libya, and unable to return home due to ongoing war and conflict. This Jungo Life seeks to tell their story from the inside …. unfiltered, with authenticity and without sensationalism.

trailer

about the author

David Fedele is an independent documentary filmmaker, musician and composer. He mainly works alone, self-producing and self-funding his own projects. For the past ten year, David has been traveling the globe with a video camera in his backpack, mainly documenting humanitarian, environmental and social justice issues, in a self-taught style which he calls “cinematic journalism”. David’s films have explored such diverse topics as sub-Saharan African migration in North and West Africa, electronic waste (e-waste) in Ghana, chronic kidney disease due to pesticide use in Sri Lanka, and illegal logging in Papua New Guinea, and have been screened widely, including at the European Union in Brussels (Belgium), winning numerous awards. This Jungo Life is filmmaker David Fedele’s third in a trilogy of films exploring issues related to refugees, asylum seekers and migration between the African and European continents. Like all of David’s previous films, This Jungo Life has been independently produced and self-funded, outside the system of conventional film production and funding..

festivals and awards

– screened in Melbourne, at  Amnesty International Australia

– screened in Rabat, Morocco, at  UNHCR Morocco and IOM (International Organisation for Migration)

– Green Montenegro Film Festival

– International Documentary Festival Of Ierapetra, Greece

– NAFA24 (Nordic Anthropological Film Association), Lofoten, Norway

filmography

– Bikpela Bagarap (Big Damage) (2011)

– E-Wasteland (2012)

– The Land Between (2014)

– Revenir (To Return) (2018)

– This Jungo Life (2024)