Italy’s Nominee for Best Foreign Picture is a Vivid Documentary about the Refugee Crisis – Screening on Dec 8th @ NW Film Forum

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Beginning on December 8th at 7:30pm, "Fire at Sea", the newest film from acclaimed Italian director, Gianfranco Rosi, and winner of the 2016 Berlinale Golden Bear will be making its Seattle premiere. The film centers on Samuele, a young boy who lives on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, which is the closest European landmass to Libya and Tunisia.

While Samuele's life follows a steady pattern of going to school and hanging with friends, everything around him speaks to the thousands of men, women and children who, for the past 20 years, have braved the ocean to Lampedusa in search of freedom. Simultaneous to following Samuele and other residents around the island, Gianfranco Rosi documents a few of the many horrifyingly conditioned boats that wash ashore, as migrants finally reach land after a harrowing journey.

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Source: https://ilpuntoseattle.org/

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