La Permanence (2016)
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 96 minuten
Alternative title: On Call
Country:
France
Directed by: Alice Diop
IMDb score:
7,3 (120)
Releasedate: 23 March 2016
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
La Permanence plot
It is a walk-in consultation hour at Hôpital Avicenne, a hospital in Bobigny, a suburb of Paris. The only place in the area where newly arrived immigrants, often illegally or still waiting for papers, can go. The doctor, assisted by a psychiatrist, listens soberly but understandingly. His patients not only struggle with headaches or insomnia, but also struggle with bureaucracy, forms, long waiting times, the search for a place to sleep; all that on top of the trauma of fleeing and separating from their family.
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