“I have no memories of: how difficult it was,” Anna says of the time she was in asylum centers as an Iranian refugee. “I think he left his mark, but when you were a kid he kind of passed you by.” In the third episode of the four-part documentary series, Anna and her mother visit thirteen Dutch asylum seekers’ centers where they have resided.
Once in Aalsmeer, where she and her family were living when they received a residence permit, Anna and her sister often had to make ends meet at home alone. Anna was eleven years old at the time. “My sister and I were alone. We took care of each other, but not out of love or anything else, we were just companions suffering.”
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About her father, she told the YouTuber in the newspaper that he drank her and never hit her, but that her sister and mother did. “I had a privilege that I didn’t want.” The influencer tries to understand her father rather than get angry with him. “In Iran he was one with his environment. He was a judge, and he had status.” According to Anna, the Dutch thought he was “stupid”, “because he took a little longer to compose a sentence.”
She further explains that as a result of her childhood Anna suffers from anxiety and sometimes panic attacks. “If I don’t feel comfortable in a group, I will start with bad breath, and if it goes on for too long, I have a panic attack.” She also writes sometimes absent, then there is “physically”, but not with her head Norwegian Refugee Council† The series director, Nikki Badedar, sent her to a psychiatrist. “I had to talk to my mother and sister about what happened to us.”
Anna describes the documentary as a “holistic cure”. “I understand the outside world is thinking: Why in the name of God with the cameras? The main reason was that I promised Nikki full cooperation, I wanted to keep it. And I trust her completely. It forced me to figure out things that I had been putting off all those previous years.”
