Kegelapan menyelimuti hutan perbatasan Hungaria-Serbia di satu titik Balkan routes. Dalam gelap itu kerumitan suara pengawasan negara, alam, dan dunia sosial para penyelundup Afghanistan yang lebur dan sesekali timbul saat cahaya melintas. Waking Hours mengikuti ritus keseharian dan panggilan-panggilan dalam penantian di jam-jam berjaga. Situasi krisis imigrasi dan geopolitik dunia terungkap dari figur dan persepsi dari kelas yang menanggapi kebutuhan manusia melintasi batas-batas negara memasuki dan merasai posisi zona Schengen hari ini.

Darkness envelops the forest on the Hungary–Serbia border at a key point along the Balkan routes. In that darkness, the complex interplay of state surveillance, the natural world and the social reality of Afghan smugglers merges and occasionally surfaces as light flickers through. Waking Hours follows the daily rituals and calls of those waiting during their hours of vigil. The global immigration and geopolitical crisis is revealed through the figures and perceptions of those who respond to the human need to cross national borders, entering and experiencing the Schengen Area as it stands today.

Federico Cammarata (1993) dan Filippo Foscarini (1990) memulai kolaborasi mereka di Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia di Palermo, tempat mereka lulus dari program Dokumenter. Sejak karya kolaboratif pertama mereka, Tardo agosto (2021), mereka mengadopsi pendekatan personal yang menarik perhatian berbagai festival internasional, mulai dari DocLisboa hingga Popoli, dari Beldocs hingga Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.

Federico Cammarata (1993) and Filippo Foscarini (1990) began their collaboration at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Palermo, where they graduated from the Documentary program. From their first joint work, Tardo agosto (2021), they adopted a personal approach that drew the attention of international festivals, from DocLisboa to Popoli, from Beldocs to the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.