In the first documentary to win the Berlin International Film Festival’s top award, acclaimed filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi offers powerful, intimate insight to the migrant crisis and its impact on the Mediterranean. Set in the once-tranquil Italian island Lampedusa, now a major entry point for African refugees into Europe, Fire at Sea juxtaposes daily life for the island’s longtime residents (focusing on a 12-year-old boy in a family of fishermen) with the migrants and their daily, desperate, and sometimes deadly landfalls. (2016, 108 mins., DCP)
The screening will be immediately followed by a discussion with guest scholar Peter Gatrell, Professor of History at Manchester University, UK, and Ohio State Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian, Jonathan Mullins.
Presented by THE WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS in partnership with THE GLOBAL MOBILITY PROJECT AT OHIO STATE, a Humanities & Arts Discovery Theme pilot project,THE DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN and THE DEPARTMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES
