The creators of The Best Immigrant thought they were making science fiction.
The Belgian series, which screens at international television festival Series Mania this week, imagines a near future where a far-right party wins power and passes a law forcing all non-native Belgians to return “to their country of origin.” Quickly adjusting to the new reality, a local TV channel launches a new competition show: The Best Immigrant, in which migrants compete to prove which is the “most worthy” of staying in the country. The winner gets residency. The losers are violently deported.
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Writers Raoul Groothuizen and Christina Poppe came up with the idea back in 2018, after noticing a sharp rise in racist rhetoric among the Flemish far-right. What would happen, they imagined, if a fascist regime took power in Belgium? How far would people, and the media, go to accommodate
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