Mediterranea (2015)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Jonas Carpignano
	Actors: Koudous Seihon, Alassane Sy
	Country: I, F, D, USA, Q
	Genre: Drama, Documentary
	Conditions of visioning: 25.10.2015, Cinema am Ostertor, Original version with German subtitles
Synopsis: Ayiva (Seihon) and Abas (Sy) leave their town in Burkina Faso to make the dangerous journey from Africa to Europe for a better life. They face hostility and violence all along the trip and this does not stop in the supposed haven of peace.
Review: I wanted to watch that movie because the trailer promised me a lot on the journey while it is mostly on the stay in Europe. For this, we have to remember Biutiful, Welcome and Le Havre. This movie contains many languages, Arabic, French and Italian would be the easier ones. But also many languages from Africa.  It shows how the European infrastructure (states and here in particular Italy) does not work for masses of people who are coming in European peace time. For the Boat people from Vietnam, for the Spanish fleeing Franco, this worked (at least in France) also because every one felt something for these people, the WWII being still close. Now that most people are driven by the consumption and politics are driven by large companies, this solidarity is much lower.  The movie itself is not original apart from the introduction making us travel from the Burkina Faso to Italy being always connected via cell phone to the town of origin. The behaviour of European toward Africans, the accidents, the negligence are things very typical and presented already in many documentaries on the migration.
Rating: 4 /10