The documentary highlights the dramatic consequences of European refugee policy, showing exclusively how EU-funded security forces in North Africa systematically deport people into the desert, and revealing the responsibility borne by Europe’s governments.

When the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was killed during the revolution of 2011, it seemed like good news for democracy in the Muslim world. But in 2012, the American ambassador and three other Americans were killed in a bloody attack in Benghazi. Today, a split between government factions has ceded large portions of the country to ISIS fighters and other extremists. VICE reports from the front lines as rival militias fight to save Libya as we know it

Amid the ever-complicated and dangerous region that is Libya in the post-Gaddafi era, photographer Michael Christopher Brown snaps shots of a country slipping further into chaos.

The Libyan journalist and cinematographer Osama Al-Fitori have accompanied the mine-clearers over and over again for two years in their dangerous work. At close range, he documents how men without metal detectors and protective suits search to find and defuse explosive devices. The traps are the deadly legacy of the IS. After the fall of dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi in 2014, the Islamists moved into Benghazi. It was followed by a bloody civil war. It was not until 2017 that Libyan General Haftar's army succeeded in driving the terrorists out of Benghazi after brutal house fighting. What remained was a debris field with countless booby traps, which still claim victims today and make a fresh start impossible - the late revenge of IS in the lost terrain. "The Benghazi Mine Clearer" shows the almost hopeless task of cleaning Benghazi from these explosives. A haunting film that lets the viewer feel the tremendous strain of the mine-clearers and sometimes even of the cameraman on this life-threatening work. A reportage that acts as a parable on this devastated country. With protagonists who see meaningless, where everything seems pointless: in the ruins of a once thriving city, located on extensive beaches that are among the most beautiful in the Mediterranean. At the same time, the film opens up a completely new view of Libya for Western viewers. He shows that this battered country is not dominated only by heavily-armed human trafficking gangs, rival tribes, and terrorists. "The Benghazi mine-clearers" makes it clear that there are people in Libya who want to normalize their country, end violence and pave the way to a peaceful future.