[D66] 66th Berlin International Film Festival

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        66th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 2:


    A critique of Europe’s refugee policy: On the Berlinale’s Golden
    Bear for /Fire at Sea/
    <http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/02/27/ber2-f27.html>


          By Bernd Reinhardt
          27 February 2016

This is the second in a series of articles on the recent Berlin
international film festival, the Berlinale, held February 11-20, 2016.
Part 1 <http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/02/22/ber1-f22.html> was
posted February 22.

The Golden Bear award at this year’s Berlinale went to /Fuocoammare/
(/Fire At S/ea). For the first time in 60 years, a documentary film
secured the top award in the competition. The jury thereby not only
selected an artistically outstanding film, but also took a highly
political decision, since the documentary deals with the refugee crisis
on Lampedusa, an issue which is currently engaging millions of people
and threatening to tear apart the European Union.

/Fire At Sea/ is the title of an Italian hit song from the 1950s, based
on the Second World War and the dangerous conditions for fishermen who
went to sea during artillery fire.

Italian director Gianfranco Rosi focuses on a current war front:
Europe’s border with the war-torn countries of the Middle East and North
Africa—a region thousands of people flee from, and risk the dangerous
journey across the Mediterranean Sea.

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