Illegal immigration is never far from the headlines, frequently discussed in political and economic terms, but it is a rare and vital thing to see beyond the statistics to the people at the heart of the issue. In the honest and humane Stop-Over, Swiss-Iranian debut director Kaveh Bakhtiari visits his cousin Mohsen, living illegally in Athens with a small group of other undocumented Iranian men. Greece was supposed to be their gateway into Europe, but, abandoned by their smuggler, they find themselves trapped. The constant fear of being picked up by the police, the hopeless search for fake papers, and the monotony of their group flophouse begin to take their toll. Filming intimately from within the group but nevertheless an outsider, Bakhtiari elegantly captures the camaraderie and struggles of these men, caught in a terrible limbo. (JH)