SATURDAY, OCT 8, 12:00 PM
FIRE AT SEA (FUOCOAMMARE)
DIR GIANFRANCO ROSI.
// DC PREMIERE. 108 MIN. 2016
The sleepy Italian island of Lampedusa, some 70 miles from Tunisia, has become
a most unexpected travel destination: it is the first stop for hundreds of thousands
of refugees streaming into Europe to escape conflict, poverty and persecution
throughout Africa and the Middle East. FIRE AT SEA, which won the Berlin Film
Festival’s prestigious Golden Bear Award, offers a startlingly poignant glimpse into
the small island’s culture as its people encounter waves of desperate newcomers
packed into rickety fishing boats, many of whom die before reaching Lampedusa’s
coast. As the residents of Lampedusa attempt to go about the quotidian aspects
of their day, one of the world’s most tragic crises is literally washing up on their
shores.
POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION TO FOLLOW WITH:
Moderator Ron Nixon, journalist, The New York Times; Kathleen Newland, senior fellow,
author, Migration Policy Institute.
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