MFAH Film New Releases: Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare)

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents another in its New Releases series. Enjoy these critically acclaimed, award-winning international films as they make their Houston debut!

Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare)

Director Gianfranco Rosi
Released 2016
Language in English and Italian with English subtitles
Country Italy/France
Running Time 108 minutes
Format Digital, Color
Website http://www.fireatsea.com/

Italy’s official Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film!

Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival, this film is one of the most compelling documentaries of the past year.

For years, the Italian island of Lampedusa has been the destination of men, women, and children making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean from Africa, fleeing conflicts, famine, and drought. Gianfranco Rosi’s (El Sicario; Room 164) observational approach chronicles the unlikely coexistence of recently arrived refugees with the island’s residents.

“Not investigative journalism, it is a deeply contemplative, carefully constructed record of events as they occur. Rosi allows audiences to make up their own minds about what they are seeing. The two realities are kept mostly separate, the former quiet and quotidian, the latter dramatic and emotional.

Amidst global refugee crises, Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare) is a magnificent intercession by a filmmaker who points no fingers, nor sets out to analyze the reasons why.” – 2016 Toronto International Film Festival