Fuocoammare

Documentary filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi spent over a year on the Italian island of Lampedusa, observing how refugees arrive here every day in the hope of a better life and how the population reacts to them. At the center of the film is twelve-year-old Samuele, who witnesses a great human tragedy with his family. Through everyday observations, Gianfranco Rosi approaches a place that is as real as it is symbolic and the emotional world of some of its inhabitants, who are exposed to a permanent state of emergency.