M.I.A.: Borders (Music Video)
2016·United Kingdom·5 min.
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The video for the song was filmed in India. It tackles the issue of the 2015 European migrant crisis. The singer has a long history of speaking about the struggles of refugees in her music. A former refugee herself, she relocated from the war-torn Sri Lanka to London with her family at the age of 10. M.I.A. revealed that none of the people appearing in the video were actors, but "real people" she acquired through street-casting and approaching actual refugee camps in the south of India where Sri Lankan Tamils live.
DirectorM.I.A.
MusicM.I.A.
CinematographyNirav Shah
CastM.I.A.
Original titleM.I.A.: Borders (Music Video)