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Salvatore is a very poor farmer and a widower who decides to emigrate to the U.S. with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is a British woman who wants to go back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, needs to marry someone before she arrives at Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts her proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations...
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Samuele is twelve years old and lives on an island in the middle of the sea. He goes to school, and loves shooting his slingshot and going hunting. He likes land games, even though everything around him speaks of the sea and the men, women, and children who try to cross it to get to his island. But his is not an island like the others, its name is Lampedusa and it is the most symbolic border of Europe, crossed by thousands of migrants in the last...
3) Fuocoammare
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Italiano
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Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.
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Italiano
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Fire at sea: Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.
Below sea level: During a five year period an Italian filmmaker documents the world of down-on-their-luck individuals who live in a Californian desert trying to get by one day at a time. None of them has more than a vehicle, a dog and some clothes.
Boatman: Captures life and death on the Ganges River in India.
Sacro GRA: Gianfranco Rosi,...
6) Tony Driver
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Italiano
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One day, Pasquale decides to change his name to Tony. In the mid-60s, at the age of nine, he crossed the ocean from Italy to the United States and grew up as a real American, hot dogs and rockabilly included. Now a taxi driver in Yuma, Arizona, he's arrested because of his side hustle: smuggling illegal immigrants across the Mexican border into the USA. He is therefore forced to make a choice: jail in Arizona or deportation to Italy. Once back in...