“A documentary that feels like a modern-day message in a bottle, an urgent appeal for help from a family that’s still searching for a home.”
“MIDNIGHT TRAVELER never loses the shroud of uncertainty that haunts it from the beginning, when Fazili and his family — wife Fatima Hossaini and their two young daughters, Nargis and Zahra — are forced to pull up stakes in Tajikistan after their request for asylum is denied and they’re deported back to Afghanistan. Their statelessness and homelessness is heartbreaking enough, but what cuts deepest is the perception of invisibility that seems to greet them at every turn, as if their fundamental personhood is being denied.”
“MIDNIGHT TRAVELER has a home-movie quality that’s enormously effective in putting a human face on a global crisis. There are many thousands of families out there just like Fazili’s, seeking shelter from a never-ending storm. The film makes them visible.”