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Gianfranco Rosi's "Fire at Sea": A
Searing Portrait of the Migrant Crisis
F
ire and sea. Life and death.
Everyday routine and per-
manent state of emergency:
the oxymoron is powerful, so is
the w ay thes e elements are
us ed to build the s tory in
Fuocoammare - Fire at Sea,
Gianfranco Rosi's latest docu-
mentary. After the big Golden
Bear at the Berlin Film Festival,
the feature is Italy's Foreign
Language Entry at the 89th edi-
tion of the Academy Awards.
After he turned down the idea
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of a reportage about the common
res cue of migrants in
Lampedusa, Rosi strives for a
different, deep, emotional effect.
F or 108 minutes , the Italian
director walks the viewer along a
double path: the one followed
by thousands of men, women,
and children w ho travel the
Mediterranean seeking a better
life; the other unfolding the day-
to-day life of Sicilian residents
who seem to be barely affected
by what happens along the coast-
lines. We talked to Director Rosi
w ho vis ited the Bay A rea in
October for a Special Advance
Screening at the Mill Valley
Film Festival.
When did you realize it was
ab ou t time to w ork on th is
topic?
In 2014, I went to Lampedusa
to film a short documentary.
Soon I realized that a ten minutes
piece was not enough to explain
the complexity of the topic. I
was about to give up when the
unpredictable happened. At the
local emergency room, where I
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Gianfranco Rosi visited the Bay Area in October for a Special Advance Screening of his documentary "Fire at sea", at the Mill Valley Film Festival@EPA/KAY NIETFELD
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