Fire at Sea

director: Gianfranco Rosi

original title: Fuocoammare

year: 2015

running time: 108 min.

synopsis

Twelve-year-old Samuel lives on Lampedusa, which has become the destination of thousands of Africans trying to reach Europe. Although the island’s inhabitants are exposed to the raw reality of the humanitarian crisis on a daily basis, the two worlds only rarely come into contact. The film won the Golden Bear for Best Film at this year’s Berlinale.

biography

Gianfranco Rosi (1964) was born in Eritrea and has shot films all over the world. His film Sacro GRA (2003) was the first documentary to win a Golden Lion in Venice. The interview El Sicario, Room 164 (2010) won awards at Venice, DocLisboa, and Doc Aviv.

more about film

director:	Gianfranco Rosi
producer:	Gianfranco Rosi
script:	Gianfranco Rosi
photography:	Gianfranco Rosi
editing:	Jacopo Quadri
sound:	Gianfranco Rosi

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