The film uses an impressive cinematographic technique. An experiment that brings Dogville (2003 d. Lars Von Trier) to mind, and that makes use of Brechtian means to lead us onto a political and documentary track through its usage of convention. The spectator witnesses people caught in the system of customs, who perform and are subjected to repetitive and mechanical actions, the latter being broken every once in a while by the voice-over which communicates experiences that come from one side or the other of the authority/submission dynamic that takes shape between the border guards and the civilians. BAB SEPTA is an allegory of a 3rd class customs, where human rights are undermined under the pretext of an economically-driven sense of security. (Emil Vasilache, BIEFF 2020)
