Fire At Sea – 4PM

Nominated for a 2017 Academy Award in the Best Documentary Feature Category!

Fire At Sea (Fuocoammare) – Buy Tickets Now!
Saturday, February 4 – 4:00 pm
Written and Directed by: Gianfranco Rosi
Documentary, PG for mature theme, 108 min. Language: Italian with English subtitles (Italy/France)
Winner of the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival 2016, Gianfranco Rosi’s incisive, poignant and deeply moving portrait of the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa – and the humanitarian crisis occurring in the seas around it – is both a masterly work of documentary filmmaking and a timely call for urgent action. Situated 150 miles south of Sicily, Lampedusa has hit headlines as the first port of call for hundreds of thousands of African and Middle Eastern refugees hoping to make a new life in Europe. Focusing on 12-year-old Samuele, as he explores the land and attempts to gain mastery of the sea, the film slowly builds a breathtakingly naturalistic portrait of the Lampedusan people and the events that surround them. The result is a lyrical, poetic and searingly powerful documentary that casts neither judgement nor aspersions, but simply shows the world to the viewer – to utterly devastating effect.

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Awards:
Won, Amnesty International Film Prize, Berlin International Film Festival, 2016
Won, Golden Berlin Bear, Berlin International Film Festival, 2016
Nominated, Best Documentary Critics Choice Documentary Awards, 2016
Won, Best European Documentary, European Film Awards, 2016
Won, Best Cinematography, International Documentary Association, 2016
Won, Best Editing, Golden Ciak Awards, 2016
Won, Special Silver Ribbon, Documentary, Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, 2016
Won, Cinema Eye Honors Award, Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US, 2017