Kenya-Jade Pinto
2026
Through cinematic landscapes and testimony from survivors, journalists, and witnesses, Kenya-Jade Pinto’s The Sandbox explores modern border control, where surveillance, AI, and militarization decide who lives and who dies. From the Arizona desert to the drone-policed Mediterranean, migrants flee unforgiving landscapes while rescuers face the Sisyphean task of keeping them safe. Meanwhile, tools tested at borders spill into databases and daily life, collapsing distance between watcher and watched. No villain stands at the center, only processes and protocols.. There is no outside: the film shatters the illusion separating “them” from us. In The Sandbox, we are all digitizable and disposable.
CREDITS
CPH: DOX March 17 – 19:15
CPH: DOX March 18 - 18:00 Demokrati Garage
CPH: DOX March 21 - 19:00 DFI / Cinemateket
CPH:DOX March 22 - 16:30 Grand Teatret
ONE WORLD March 18 - 20:30 Ponrepo Cinema
ONE WORLD March 19 - Světozor Cinema
HOT DOCS April 25 - 20:00 TIFF Lightbox
HOT DOCS May 2 - 11:00 Hot Docs Cinema
DCDOX June 12 2026 - 17:30 Regal Gallery Place
Cinéma sous les étoiles July 6 2026 - 21:00 Parc des Faubourgs
Gimli International Film Festival July 22 - 15:30 PM Unitarian Church (Aspire Theatre)
Gimli International Film Festival July 25 - 13:00 Lady of the Lake Theatre
❛ An eye-opening sequence ❜
— POV Magazine
❛ An urgent, unsettling depiction of the human cost of surveillance technologies ❜
— She Does the City
❛ It is a powerful look at how algorithms are now making life or death immigration decisions ❜
— Global's The Morning Show
❛ Pinto’s doc sounds a crucial alarm about Big Data becoming Big Brother ❜
— Movie Pie