LAMPEDUSA by Peter Schreiner SEQUENCE 01

LAMPEDUSA / Austria 2013 - 2015 / HD - DCP / black and white / 16:9 / 3.1 mono / running time: 130 min. (25f/s) / cast: Giuliana Pachner, Zakaria Mohamed Ali, Pasquale De Rubeis, Anna Matina, Awad Elkish / assistant director and producer: Maria Schreiner / assistant camera, lighting, make up: Isabella Schreiner / sound recording and mixing: Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer / concept, realisation, camera, editing: Peter Schreiner / production: Peter Schreiner Filmproduktion - echt.zeit.film / supported by The Arts Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria - Innovative Film Austria, Vienna City Administration, cultural department / filmed 2013 / 2014, Lampedusa, Italy
IFFI-Award for Best Documentary, Prize of the Town of Innsbruck, 2016
Austrian premiere: Diagonale, Graz 2015 / International premiere: International Filmfestival Rotterdam 2016 / IFFI - International Filmfestival Innsbruck, Austria 2016 / Cinema Isola - International Filmfestival, Slovenia 2016 / Karlovy Vary International Filmfestival, Czech Republic 2016 / Human District International Filmfestival, Belgrade, Serbia 2016
A woman, a man. The island of Lampedusa, where their escape routes intersect. Zakaria, in his late twenties, from Somalia, who has risked his life coming to the island on a small boat when fleeing civil war in his country. Giulia, in her mid-fifties, a tourist from Northern Italy, on the run from deep personal crises. Both have returned to the island. Giulia, recovered but facing a life-threatening illness, and Zakaria, as a journalist now living in Rome.