The Sandbox
Kenya-Jade Pinto / Canada / 2026 / World Premiere / 90 min
A clear-sighted mapping of the fault lines on the world map of the 21st century. Power politics, migration, and surveillance are violent forces in a global drama, depicted with sharp artistic vision.
Enormous forces are at play in the world today. There is talk of a new century of mass migration. At the same time, territorial lines are challenged, while national borders and sea routes are more militarized than ever before. ‘The Sandbox’ places itself in the midst of all this, delivering a clear-eyed snapshot of a world in radical change.
Director Kenya-Jade Pinto gives us an overwhelming insight into a global black box of migration, surveillance, control, and, not least, the mindset of those responsible. From arms fairs in the US to the southern borders of the EU and beyond, she has created a film that is immensely contemporary and relevant, both in its sharp political analyses and its visually accomplished report from a world of drones and infrared cameras. But the life and dignity of the individual are never lost sight of in Pinto’s cinematic mapping of the fault lines of the 21st century – and of a global matrix of high-tech militarization and security policy, where fear and power feed off each other.