“Between 1949 and 1990, hundreds of thousands of people migrated to the GDR from countries such as Algeria, Angola, Chile, Guinea-Bissau, Cuba, Mozambique, Syria, and Vietnam. Their stories often remained untold,” summarizes an exhibition about people who came to Soviet-dominated East Germany before German reunification. The slogan “Long live international solidarity” still rings in the ears of many people who grew up in the GDR—it was a staple of the many state-organized demonstrations in East German cities, which schoolchildren and workers were more or less forced to attend. While official praise for international understanding and friendship between “brother peoples” was sung incessantly, informal contact between locals and the small number of immigrants was limited. Contract workers and international students lived largely separated from the local population. This is also evident in the main exam film submitted by Indian filmmaker Chetna Vora to the GDR Film and Television Academy in 1980. Four years earlier, in the year of Biermann's expatriation, Vora had begun her studies in film directing in Potsdam-Babelsberg. She shot her graduation film in a student dormitory in Berlin-Karlshorst. The protagonists of her film came from Chile, Guinea-Bissau, Cuba, the Mongolian People's Republic, and other countries.