No Man is an Island

Original Title: No Man is an Island

70' | 2015 (Completed)

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Director:	Tim De Keersmaecker
Producer:	Emmy Oost
Writer:	Anna Luyten, Tim De Keersmaecker

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Lampedusa: promised land or prison in the Mediterranean?

synopsis

Doctor Bartolo found Omar, a 21-year-old Tunisian migrant stranded on Lampedusa's coast. Despite the ongoing burden of death at sea, he offers Omar a family, a home and a job as an interpreter in the local detention centre. Around the same time also Adam, a 16-year-old from Ghana, is taken in by a hotelkeeper's family and works as a valet. Both boys have been lucky. Or have they? Lampedusa: promised land or prison in the Mediterranean Sea? Through 2 unique adoption stories, we experience the search for freedom of both the Lampedusiani and its newcomers.
Omar is een 21-jarige vluchteling uit Tunesië. Net als zovele andere vluchtelingen verliet hij Tunesië in 2011 tijdens de Arabische lente in een gammele boot en strandde hij op de kust van Lampedusa. Omar heeft het geluk opgevangen te worden door de lokale arts die de aangespoelde vluchtelingen de eerste zorgen geeft. In diezelfde periode bereikt ook de 16-jarige Adam uit Ghana het eiland. Hij wordt opgevangen door een hoteluitbater en werkt in het hotel als hulpje. Beide jongens hebben geluk gehad. Of toch niet?

Credits

Director
Tim De Keersmaecker
Producer
Emmy Oost
Writer
Anna Luyten, Tim De Keersmaecker
Editing
Koen Timmerman
Photography
Laurens De Geyter, Rik Zang, Renaat Lambeets
Sound
Christophe Vandepitte
Music
Mathieu Vandekerckhove, Raphael Absolonne

Format

Creation details

Type
Film
Category
Doc
Production share
Majority Flemish Production
Belgium
Genre
Year of production

2015
Production status
Completed
Original title
No Man is an Island
Original language
Italian, Arabic, Akan

Technical specs

Running time
70'
Available in
2D
Aspect ratio
16:9
Sound format
5.1 (+sub)
Colour
Colour

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Festivals & awards

Festivals

2017: Diritti a Todi - Human Rights International Film Festival (IT); Millenium International Documentary Film Festival (BE); Document Human Rights Film Festival (UK); The Milan International Filmmaker Festival 2017 (IT)
2016: One World Film Festival Prague (CZ); Thessaloniki Film Festival (GR); International Spectrum - Hot Docs International Documentary Festival (CA); MOOOV Film Festival (BE); Docs Against Gravity (PL); Docville (BE); Festival International du Film Insulaire (FR); Film Festival Oostende (BE); Docfest Maastricht (NL); Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest (DE)

Awards

No award information available.

Partners

Supported by

Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Flanders Image, Canvas, Media Programme of the European Union, the Pascal Decroos Fund, the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government