• Einhundertvier

    Einhundertvier

    ONE HUNDRED FOUR



  • Einhundertvier

    Einhundertvier

    ONE HUNDRED FOUR



  • Einhundertvier

    Einhundertvier

    ONE HUNDRED FOUR



  • Einhundertvier

    Einhundertvier

    ONE HUNDRED FOUR



  • Einhundertvier

    Einhundertvier

    ONE HUNDRED FOUR



  • Einhundertvier

    Einhundertvier

    ONE HUNDRED FOUR



Einhundertvier

ONE HUNDRED FOUR

by Jonathan Schörnig

Einhundertvier

Germany | 2023 | 93:00 min

Original Title:
EINHUNDERTVIER

Content Categories

Documentary
Synopsis
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. [66 DOK Leipzig, Luc-Carolin Ziemann]

"The film team and the crew of the rescue ship show us clearly what it means when we look the other way every day. But they also show that help is possible and needed," the 66 DOK Leipzig jury emphasised.
Festivals/Awards
2023
four times awarded at 66 DOK Leipzig – German Competition Documentary Film
• Golden Dove Feature-Length Film
• Film Prize Leipziger Ring (ex aequ)
• Goethe–Institut Documentary Film Prize
• ver.di Prize for Solidarity, Humanity and Fairness
40 Kassel Dokfest
2024
39 DOK.fest Munich
nominated Roman Brodman Award
Best Documentary – 29 It's All True IDFF Brazil [qualified for the OSCAR®]
21 FiSH Rostock
5 LETsDOK
Cast and Crew
  • Director Jonathan Schörnig
  • Producer Uwe Nitschke, Adrian Then
  • Director of Photography Jonathan Schörnig, Johannes Filous
  • Editor Jonathan Schörnig, Moritz Petzold
Original Languages

German

English

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