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Filmstill One Hundred Four

One Hundred Four

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Jonathan Schörnig
German Competition Documentary Film
Documentary Film
Germany
2023
93 minutes
German,
English
Subtitles: 
English
World premiere

The deadliest refugee route in the world claims thousands of lives every year. In the first half of 2023 alone, almost 2,000 people died in the Mediterranean because the European Union’s border policy systematically violates existing laws. Instead of helping shipwrecked persons, Frontex practices illegal pushbacks, finances the violent operations of the Libyan coast guard and takes massive action against private sea rescue missions that act where the EU fails. All this has been documented in the media and yet remains incomprehensible to all who were never forced to live through this situation themselves: How can one deny assistance to hundreds of people in peril of life, even threaten and criminalise the civilian helpers?

Jonathan Schörnig was concerned with this dilemma of lack of perception and decided to bring a sea rescue to the screen as a real time documentary to show how agonisingly long it takes to rescue 104 persons from a sinking rubber boat. One by one, step by step, the film follows the action with several parallel cameras. When the Libyan coast guard turn up, the situation comes to a head. The rescued persons and the crew are stuck on the high seas for days because no Mediterranean country gives them permission to dock. It is only after a heavy storm that one port takes pity on them. What sounds like a bad script is actually – daily – reality.


Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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12.10.
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Director
Jonathan Schörnig
Cinematographer
Jonathan Schörnig, Johannes Filous
Editor
Jonathan Schörnig, Moritz Petzold
Producer
Uwe Nitschke
Co-Producer
Adrian Then

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Main Contact
Jonathan Schörnig
jonathan.schoernig@posteo.de
Nominated for Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize, DEFA Sponsoring Prize, VER.DI Prize for Solidarity, Humanity and Fairness, Leipziger Ring
Winner of Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize, Leipziger Ring, ver.di Prize for Solidarity, Humanity and Fairness