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Gianfranco Rosi's documentary Fire at Sea offers an unflinching look at life on Lampedusa island
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Sun, Feb 19, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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A FEMALE voice crackles over the radio, begging for rescue from a crowded migrant boat sinking into the Mediterranean Sea as the coastguard barks over and over: "What is your position?"
Like much of Italian master Gianfranco Rosi's cinematic, Oscar-nominated documentary Fire at Sea, this opening scene plays out like a narrative thriller, except the lives in danger are real.
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