Rebecca Cremona

Dati tecnici

Language: 
inglese
Subtitles: 
italiano
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Credits principali

Production company: 
Kukumajsa Productions
Distributed: 
No

Cast e credits

Story: 
Rebecca Cremona
Screenplay: 
Rebecca Cremona, David Grech
Film editing: 
Daniel Lapira
Music: 
Ruben Zahra
Cinematography: 
Chris Freilich

Simshar

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Genre: 
Length: 
96min
Country: 
Malta
Year of production: 
2 014
Theo, 11yo, sets off on his first expedition on the family fishing boat Simshar together with his father, grandfather and a Malian migrant worker. Disaster strikes when a fire breaks out onboard, leaving the crew stranded in open water. Meanwhile, tensions run high when a Turkish vessel rescues African migrants between Malta and the Italian island of Lampedusa, with neither country willing to allow disembarkation. Alex, a Maltese doctor sent on the ship against his will to provide medical care, gets caught up in the diplomatic dispute and is forced to remain onboard. His friend in the national armed forces, John, tries to get Alex back to land whilst assisting with the search for the missing Simshar. Theo’s mother Sharin desperately rallies the local community into conducting their own search. The deadlock at sea is finally resolved, and the migrants are taken in by Italy. Meanwhile, by the time the floating Simshar crew is located by the fishing community there is only one survivor…

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Parlaci dell’opera che presenti al Napoli Film Festival: 
In December of 2008 I went back to my home country, Malta, and met with some people involved in a fishing tragedy with shook the island earlier that summer. As I spoke to fishermen, captains of trawlers, the armed forces and many other people who interact with the sea on a daily basis, I came to the understanding that something was happening in the Mediterranean Sea which us on land were not aware of. Thousands of people were not only crossing what is known as 'the cradle of civilization' but many were dying because their distress calls were being ignored. The sacrosanct law of the sea to aid all in the danger was being broken and off our shores was a 'grave of civilization' not a cradle. This was before the Arab Spring and Syrian conflict happened. The way world affairs developed made it all the more urgent to tell this story of a Maltese family, who got caught up in political contexts far beyond themselves, and which begged the question: do we value all human life equally?

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