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- On an impoverished Italian island, a free-spirited woman is accused of madness by townspeople fed up with her antics.
- Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.
- Valeria is a ghostwriter for a screenwriter lacking inspiration. When she gets a plot of a new film by a mysterious character, an exciting intrigue starts.
- North African refugees try to get to Italy and the Italian Coast Guard rescuing thousands of desperate people. The people of Lempedusa come together to help them on a journey to freedom.
- Nour is ten years old and has faced alone the journey to Europe across the Mediterranean. What are you doing alone in Lampedusa, among the survivors of a shipwreck? Pietro Bartolo, doctor of the island, takes care of it and, step by step, tries to reconstruct not only the girl's past, but also her present and a new future.
- The tiny community at the edge of Europe is engaged in a desperate fight for dignity, and for solidarity with those who many consider the cause of the ongoing crisis: the African boat people.
- Two people return to the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa. Giulia overcame a personal crisis here, Zakaria fled here from the civil war in his homeland of Somalia. Schreiner tells about them, about innermost thoughts, existential questions and fears, about transiency: A search for meaning that remains fragmentary, moving between memory and now. The past presses into the monologues and conversations in the present of the cinematic image. It has written itself visibly into the skin, faces, and bodies that Schreiner explores in close ups, which become practically perceptible, yet nonetheless remain highly artificial. The strict, sensual beauty of these images, the play with abstraction of brilliant black-and-white, of light and shadow, the long, calm takes, the concentration on details all create the space for an intuitive, concentrated awareness, a space of encounter. The site of this encounter is concrete, but for the characters, the sparse, brittle landscape of Lampedusa turns into a stage of sorts, and a projection; an abstract space. Just as this island exists as a mere idea for most of us, as a place where political action becomes manifest, and also a crisis-the relationship of old Europe and young Africa, the dynamics of resistance and mesmerized attraction, of inside and outside. Schreiner drafts Lampedusa as a universal, internal narrative, as intense space of experience and association, oscillating between documentary and fictional elements. Freed of the necessity to explain, the film itself becomes a search and interrogation-of the characters, cinematic form, and our own present realities.
- Trapped in a shallow reality indifferent to the needs of Nature and the Soul, Adele, an eleven-year-old girl, performs a small act of rebellion that makes her find her voice and the strength to be 100% herself.
- In this powerful and moving film, we follow the NGO rescue ship 'Iuventa' in their mission to save the lives of migrants. From this year, NGO rescue ships find themselves unable to operate, accused of running a 'taxi service' for smugglers. It's a complex story, capturing both the drama of the rescues and the political awakening of the young protagonists.
- An episodic, dreamlike film about the waste of humanity. The film traces a journey through Africa, Europe and the USA, taking in the consequences of hyper-inflation, human-trafficking, electronic waste, the arms industry and death to show how goods such as sophisticated weaponry, cars, money, and even memories can turn into waste and how waste can unexpectedly change into valuables, as the symbolic meaning changes.
- Illegal smuggling in the Mediterranean: arms, drugs, toxic waste, migrants.
- On a ferry travelling towards Lampedusa, we find a teenager on his first day of work as a gravedigger and a boy on his first mission as a diver. One has to retrieve the bodies of drowned shipwreck victims, the other one has to bury them.
- Since the large waves of migration in summer 2015, many are ready to house and welcome the less fortunate people of this world. Long before that Doctor Bartolo took responsibility for Omar, an 18-year-old Tunisian who stranded on Lampedusa's coast. Dr Bartolo offers Omar a family, a home and a job as an interpreter in the local detention centre. Around the same time also Adam, a 16-year-old from Ghana, is taken in by a hotelkeeper, who gives him a job as the hotel's valet. Both boys have been lucky. Or haven't they? Because a future is more than a roof above your head. And good intentions don't suffice for true integration. We should at least listen to the boys themselves. Lampedusa: promised land or prison in the Mediterranean Sea? These 2 unique adoption stories reveal the search for freedom and happiness of both the Lampedusiani and the newcomers, and are a metaphor for the task that awaits the European continent.
- The island Lampedusa has become a symbol for migration towards Europe. This has affected the small community of 5,500 Italians living in the middle of the Mediterranean. How do they live their lives, while thousands of refugees arrive?
- Alice is an Italian philosopher and activist. For three years the 31-year-old woman has been traveling between her hometown Palermo and Cologne. Whilst in Germany the prospect of a secure professorship awaits her within a year, she nevertheless feels committed to her home country. As soon as she is back there she gets involved in various organizations and begins to fight actively against injustice. She becomes particularly involved in helping Africans who are living illegally in Palermo. She helps them with applications, organizes sleeping shelters and corresponds with employers - for example when wages are not paid or working conditions become too poor. However, Alice's main preoccupations are the open doors of Africa: She expects an uncontrollable influx of people from all over Africa to Italy, Spain and Greece, where every helping hand will be needed to avoid escalation of tension between refugees and the local population.
- Le radeau de la Méduse parallels the wrecked boats of the African immigrants on the Italian Lampedusa island and the abandoned cars of asylum seekers that have traveled from Russia to Salla, Finnish Lapland with Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa (1818-1819), located in Louvre. Based on true events, the subject of the painting is the 1816 shipwreck of Méduse, a frigate with administrative personnel on their way from France to African colonies. The passengers of the ship rescued on a raft they built and left drifting on the open sea with fatal consequences.
- Those who seek political asylum in Italy fear for their very survival. They are forced to wait for several years, are forbidden to work and receive no assistance from the State. They are not provided with lodging, food or information. The refugees set up communes, building shelters, squatting derelict buildings near to centers of agricultural employment and frequently move around according to the harvest season. They survive thanks to their network of solidarity, voluntary organizations and black market work. Starting in Rome where a vast community has squatted the old state railway warehouses next to Tiburtina station, the film traces stopovers in the journey of a nomadic population of asylum seekers who, crossing the Italian peninsula, must head for the centers of seasonal harvesting in order to survive. A geographical exploration of the exile of heroes, deserters and refugees from the wars in post-colonial Africa: the new migrants of Europe.
- Director Statement Italian Filmography L'attesa (doc, 2012,d), Benvenuti in Italia (Dadir) (doc, 2012,d), To Whom It May Concern (doc, 2013, d, act)
- Salvo is called to the scene of a dead blind man and finds himself taking responsibility for his guide dog. Once the investigation determines that the man was murdered, a course of events lead Salvo to deceive 'Livia into taking a "working" vacation weekend to visit the man's sister and finding that they are in debt with the loan sharks. It is later determined that the murdered man left his substantial savings to his sister - but where did the money come from?
- In Sicily, Anthony Bourdain eats some tripe at a local frittola stand in II Capo Market, a spleen sandwich with Sicily's President, and salt encrusted fish. Later, Tony also debates where to get the best cannoli.
- 1993– 45mTV Episode
- As Byzantine power crumbled, a rebel governor invited Moors from Northern Africa, who ended up turning the whole island into an exceptionally tolerant Muslim emirate, establishing a new capital at Palermo, which became a rich, cosmopolitan, major European metropolis. While duke William of Normandy conquered England swiftly, the Hauteville family from his converted Vikings nobility joined the Crusades, and managed with great effort to turn Sicily into a crusader kingdom. It fell to the Staufian imperial dynasty of Henry VI, then after an Anjou Neapolitan intermezzo five centuries under Aragon's Spanish-Catalan rule. They introduced the Spanish Inquisition, a regime of Catholic intolerance and persecution of Jews and heretics. The Bourbon house of Spain was evicted as Garibaldi started his 19th century reunification of Italy in Syracuse, but under Italian rule a new scourge emerged from within: the mafia. Cultures continue to mix and foreigners to immigrate into the cosmopolitan island, even when right wing parties in Rome call for a fortress Europe.