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From: Biniam Tekle <biniamt_at_dehai.org>
Date: Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 4:17 PM
Subject: (Prio) Closed Sea: Protection of Borders, Protection of Migrants?
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Closed Sea: Protection of Borders, Protection of Migrants?
Film Screening and Discussion
Time: 10 April 2014 18:00-20:30
Place: Filmens Hus, Dronningens gate 16, Oslo
PRIO and Frontline Club Oslo invite you to a screening of the documentary
Closed Sea (Italy, 2012), followed by a discussion with director Stefano
Liberti, PRIO researcher María Hernández Carretero and NOAS adviser
Florentina Gramam, moderated by Le Monde Diplomatique's Truls Lie. The film
raises important questions about the dilemmas involved in protecting
borders and protecting migrants who seek to cross these borders. The film
documents the experiences of refugees from Eritrea and Somalia coming to
Italy to seek asylum, and this opens for discussion about European asylum
and border management policies. It also more broadly reflects experiences
shared by migrants trying to reach Europe by sea, whether or not they can
be defined as refugees according to the 1951 UN Refugee convention. The
film thus raises more general questions about the human aspects of European
border control efforts.
Facebook event.
Closed Sea
Italy, 2012, 60 minutes, directed by Stefano Liberti and Andrea Segre.
Watch trailer here.
Since March 2011, after the outbreak of the Libyan War, many African
migrants and refugees escaped from the country. While a part of this flow
has found shelter in refugee camps at the border with Tunisia, others
managed to reach Italian coasts by boat. Many of them had been previously
pushed back by Italy as a result of an agreement signed by Berlusconi and
Gaddafi in 2008. Since the signature of this deal, all migrants intercepted
at sea by the Italian navy were forcibly returned to Libya, where they were
exposed to any kind of abuses by local police. Our documentary aims to tell
what actually happened to African refugees on the Italian ships during
these "push back operations" and in Libyan prisons after their deportation.
We met our witnesses in Shousha refugee camp, at the border between Libya
and Tunisia, and in two reception camps for asylum seekers (C.A.R.A.) in
southern Italy. Their interviews constitute the main part of the
documentary, along with a session of the European Court of Human Rights in
Strasbourg, where one of our witnesses sued Italy. The Court has recently
condemned Italy for violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Entrance
Tickets are 80 kr (50 kr for Cinemateket members) and can be bought at the
door.
Frontline Club Oslo
Frontline Club Oslo organizes and hosts debates and documentary film
screenings, gathering filmmakers, journalists, photographers and
intellectuals for weekly events at Filmens Hus in Oslo.
Received on Mon Apr 14 2014 - 10:41:00 EDT