’Fire at Sea’ Q&A | Gianfranco Rosi | NYFF54

Following its screening in the Main Slate of the 54th New York Film Festival, director Gianfranco Rosi discussed his film ’Fire at Sea.’ Winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary observes Europe’s migrant crisis from the vantage point of a Mediterranean island where hundreds of thousands of refugees, fleeing war and poverty, have landed in recent decades. Rosi shows the harrowing work of rescue operations but devotes most of the film to the daily rhythms o