(15 February 2017) The Italian Institute of Culture of Guatemala City offers the public an "Oscar Night" with the screening of the film "Fuocoammare" (with Spanish subtitles) on Tuesday, February 28.  Gianfranco Rosi’s 2016 documentary won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival last February and is in the top-five Oscar-winning films in the category "Best Documentary." "Fuocoammare" produced with RAI Cinema and distributed by Istituto Luce Cinecittà by 01, had originally been placed first put on the list of possible candidates for an Oscar award for Best Foreign Film, but was then removed at a later time. The work of Rosi is a valuable documentary filmed "live" in the island of Lampedusa for a year and a half in which he talks about the immigration crisis in this "border" land where the phenomenon of migrant arrivals involves not only migrants, but also the islanders who live in contact with such a complex reality on a daily basis.  (Red)

THE FILM

Samuele is a 12-year-old boy who lives on a small island. He likes to play, he goes to school, he likes to pull the slingshot and go hunting. He likes playing outdoors, on land even if he surrounded by the sea and by men, women and children who tried to cross it to get to the island of Lampedusa. It is not an island like any other, it is Europe’s symbolic border that is crossed by thousands of migrants in search of freedom for the past 20 years.