#NYFF 2016: Fire at Sea

Fire at Sea plays October 7 and October 8 as part of the main slate of the 54th New York Film Festival. Kino Lorber will release the movie in New York on October 21. Follow our coverage of NYFF 2016 here.
In Gianfranco Rosi’s Fire at Sea, the European refugee crisis intersects painfully and obliquely with the sleepy Sicilian island of Lampedusa, where coastal rescue teams haul dead and near-dead bodies from inadequately supplied boats while on land native grammar school kids hunt birds wit