Refugee film movie cinema “wildfire”: Frightening images of Lampedusa – Augsburger Allgemeine

The film “wildfire” of Gianfranco Rosi shows how to make refugees of Lampedusa on the way to a better life – not to come. A painful documentary. From Fred Duran
 

Those who claim that the migration wave was suddenly and unexpectedly come upon us, which is taught by Gianfranco Rosi “wildfire” better. The documentary, which was awarded at the Berlinale in 2016 with the Golden Bear, embarks on the Italian island of Lampedusa. For twenty years this land the fugitives from Africa, which become in overloaded boats on the way to a better life. An estimated 15,000 have so far been on the perilous journey killed and “wildfire” not spared us these pictures: Only saves the Coast Guard hundreds of refugees from a boat, then the camera accompanies the helpers in the ship’s hull, where the bodies of those who are superimposed, on the suffocated crossing or died of dehydration.

“wildfire” of Gianfranco Rosi engages refugee crisis

This photo was Rosi by his own admission initially not filming. There were the rescuers, who every day are faced with, who took him as a documentarist in the duty. The shots of refugees look at night with their glittering emergency blankets like aliens, are contrasted with the everyday life of the islanders, who are used for centuries to take (and take) what the sea gives them. The film shows the self-evident, it understand the people of Lampedusa than their human duty to help the refugees and thereby advancing to the humanistic core of his highly topical theme.

The fate of émigrés: “wildfire” of Gianfranco Rosi

The fate of emigrant faces the seemingly carefree childhood of a fishing boy who in the course of the film is blossoming into an eloquent entertainers. A little too much to Rosi in love with his young protagonists. Nevertheless, “wildfire” precisely by its contrasting method moments that go sustainably under the skin.

Review 4 of 5 stars

Film Start in Augsburg, Ulm

movie data “wildfire”, Italy / France 2016, 109 min., ages 12, by Gianfranco Rosi

“wildfire”: Summary for film by Gianfranco Rosi

“wildfire” by director Gianfranco Rosi is a mixture of documentary and staged action scenes from the everyday life of the island of Lampedusa. Rosi told from two points of view: At sea it comes to the death of the boat people and the often futile work of rescuers, on land it’s all about the experience of a 12-year-old islander

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                           For years to come in the Mediterranean repeatedly boat people on the way to Europe has to offer.

         
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                           May 2016: Within just a week to die, according to the refugee agency UNHCR least 700 people in several shipwrecks

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                           August 2015: Off the coast of Libya should have perished in the sinking of two refugee boats at least 200 people. In the days before suffocating around 100 refugees in the holds of ships.

         
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                           April 2015: In front of the Libyan coasts capsizes a fully loaded refugee boat. Initially, only 28 people have been saved if the emergency services feared up to 700 deaths. Only a few days ago 400 people were loud survivors were missing after a disaster.

         
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                           February 2015: In front of the Italian island of Lampedusa may come more than 330 refugees killed. At least 29 of them die during the crossing from Libya to Italy in flimsy rafts from hypothermia.

         
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                           September 2014: Only ten men to be saved, as a boat with reportedly more than 500 migrants in the Mediterranean goes. Survivors report that traffickers have sunk the ship with Syrians, Egyptians, Palestinians and Sudanese on their way to Malta.

         
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                           July 2014: At a refugee tragedy before Libya’s coastal drowning at least 150 people. The Libyan coastguard found bodies and wreckage of a ship off the city of Khums.

         
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                           October 2013: At least 366 refugees drowned in Lampedusa. Your boat catches fire and capsizes. The Coast Guard can bring 155 people to safety. They are mainly from Somalia and Eritrea.

         
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                           May 2012: 54 refugees die when they want to achieve from Italy in strong winds in a dinghy from Libya. Without supplies drinking seawater. A man from Eritrea survived.

         
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                           August 2011: A boat reached with 270 surviving Africans Lampedusa. Below deck, the corpses of 25 men who are probably choking on exhaust fumes. 100 deaths were also thrown overboard, says a survivor.

         
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                           June 2011: Off the coast of Tunisia gets a boat with refugees from Africa and Asia on the way to Italy in distress. Few can be saved; up to 270 people remain missing. (Dpa)

         

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