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Fire at Sea
Description
The documentary captures life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis. The main characters are a twelve-year-old boy from a local fishing family and a doctor who treats the migrants on their arrival.
The documentary captures life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis. The main characters are a twelve-year-old boy from a local fishing family and a doctor who treats the migrants on their arrival.
Actors:
Francesco Mannino,
Francesco Paterna,
Maria Costa,
Giuseppe Fragapane,
Samuele Pucillo,
Maria Signorello,
Mattias Cucina,
Samuele Caruana,
Pietro Bartolo
Francesco Mannino
Francesco Paterna
Maria Costa
15 December 1926, Messina, Sicily, Italy
Giuseppe Fragapane
Samuele Pucillo
Maria Signorello
Mattias Cucina
Samuele Caruana
Pietro Bartolo
Genre:
Documentary
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January 19, 2017
The end result is transporting, but also moving; it's a wake-up call, asking us to think about how much attention we really pay to what's around us, and - perhaps more importantly - what to do about it?January 18, 2017
Demolishing and poetic, hard and intelligent. Rosi's work moves away from sentimentalism and obvious narrative resources to build a free and unconventional documentary. [Full review in Spanish]January 18, 2017
A reflexive and hard critic that becomes a necessary instrument to show the prevailing level of dehumanization in society. [Full review in Spanish]February 10, 2017
A documentary structured as a warm and avant-garde album of glittering images to slow political-poetic fire. [Full review in Spanish]January 18, 2017
A current, unmissable and noisy film, not because of what you will hear, but because of its outrageous repercussions, that maybe someday they will reach the right ears. [Full review in Spanish]December 07, 2016
We feel the bewilderment of the parochial yet decent residents, the helplessness of the well-intentioned yet overwhelmed rescuers, and the anguish and disorientation of the refugees.February 08, 2017
It's a stirring testament to humanity when the patient voice of the marine patrol addresses the panicked refugees on their boat's radio.February 03, 2017
Who needs voiceovers when a director's camera has this much to say?October 28, 2016
What makes the movie worth seeing, is the sequence with the Africans chanting in the detention center about making it from Africa, through the scorching Sudanese desert and Libya, to Lampedusa.October 27, 2016
Fire at Sea is a shining example of journalism fueled by outrage and shaped by free-ranging curiosity.December 15, 2016
Though conceived as a humanitarian statement, the movie wouldn't be as memorable or challenging without its quotidian aspect.January 20, 2017
A fascinating study in contrasts, "Fire at Sea' shows how the normal and painfully abnormal exist side by side - the horrific and the serene, the tragic and the mundane, global crisis and daily humdrum.