This chapter will analyse a short documentary film called Natives of the New World, a collective work produced in 2018 by migrants who are or were stuck on Lésbos Island in Greece. The anonymous writers, directors, and producers of this documentary are united under the collective Kino Mosaik. They are originally from countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, Guinea, Congo, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, and Ethiopia.

This analysis will first be based on the ways in which migrants choose to represent themselves, as well as the forms and the potential elements of resistance present in their works. Its aim is to understand how migrants can act in society through video counter-strategies opposed to the representation techniques of the mainstream media. As insider testimonies of the migrant life, how can they create their own counternarrative and express it through artistic tools? I would like to examine what distinguishes these works from the representations of outsider journalists or artists.

The documentary film Natives of the New World is a good example to explore how the individual identities are collectively united in a common narrative and how this common narrative can express itself as a transformative power.