Screening: SOLTANTO IL MARE (Nothing but the Sea, 2011)

Screening of: Soltanto il mare (Nothing but the Sea, 50', 2011)
Directed by Dagmawi Yimer, Fabrizio Barraco, Giulio Cederna
Commentated by Alessandro Triulzi, University of Naples "L'Orientale", producer
Moderated by David Forgacs, NYU

Dagwami Yimer landed on Lampedusa on July 30th, 2006, after three days at sea in a small makeshift boat. He met no-one during the seven days he was to spend confined in the ex- reception center near the airport, and beyond the wire fence he could see only the coming and going of tourist planes. A few years later, after engaging in film-making, Dag had an opportunity to return to Lampedusa with a video-camera to film the island which saved his life, speak with its inhabitants and move around freely. Filmed on Lampedusa in the course of 2010, a period during which the island was no longer in the headlines, and completed at the beginning of 2011 when the new arrivals were reported in all the media, the film proposes a combined view of two realities which rarely enter into dialogue on Lampedusa: that of a migrant and that of the Lampedusans.

Watch the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f1-fyT_Oqrw