• Director(s):

    FREDA (MELINE)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2014

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

“Never again!” cried Europeans after the October 2013 Lampedusa tragedy that claimed the lives of more than 360 migrants, come from across the Mediterranean.

Since then, the Lampedusa reception centre has been closed, and Italy has launched Mare Nostrum, a military-humanitarian operation that picks up refugees at sea: two factors that have resulted in immigration routes being modified, and in a further rise in the number of departures, as the crossing has become less perilous for migrants, and easier to organise for people smugglers. The migrants, en masse, escorted by the Italian military marines, arrive in small towns that are neither prepared nor equipped to receive an ever-increasing number of them. Pozzallo is one such commune that accommodates people who are fleeing war, dictatorship and poverty. Its mayor was the first to let out a cry of alarm, talking of a “second Lampedusa”. How is the small town coping with this constant influx?