This short documentary, which is nominated for an Academy Award in that category, is about the refugee crisis between North Africa and Europe, which has seen
thousands of desperate people take to boats in a bid to make the
treacherous journey in search of safety and a better life. Boats crammed almost to sinking point with people, many of whom are sick
from their time at sea and volunteers trying to help them with scant
resources. The captains of these rescue boats aim to break this sea of humanity down into individual
lives. Many of the refugees here tell tales of human trafficking, of
being bought and sold and incarcerated before taking the chance to flee.
This short film puts you right there with those who do the rescuing. It works on the emotional element of what this looks like on the ground,
aiming to shift the focus of the way that those in the West perceive
the problem. Castle insists that "rationality" is all well and good but
that the closer you get to the reality on the ground, the more you begin
to see the problems not as a single crisis but as thousands of
individual people in crisis coming together. Do not miss this.
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