The Pongo Story

2020, 90 minutes

Roma Activist, Psita Pongo, sets out to create and present a Roma Bill of Rights to The European Parliament

Psita Pongo lives with his family in Manchester, UK. His family are Roma migrants from Czechia and in the UK they have found success and a degree of acceptance that was denied them in the country of origin. Now Psita wants to return to his home in Czechia and to Slovakia where his mother's people still live to combat the racism and social exclusion that plagues the Roma community. He has a vision of creating a Roma bill of rights that will help the Roma in their fights against discrimination, to do so he has to combat not only racists but opposition from within his own community who resent his success.

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