Lampedusa in Winter

"LAMPEDUSA IN WINTER is the stroke of luck of a documentary: it opens the eyes, touches the heart and makes you think. We see, amazed, moved, laughing and crying, how they really are, the worries and problems of the people, and how they fight for their social cohesion, which, as it becomes increasingly clear, is not so much threatened by the refugees, but by incompetent and corrupt national politics. A narrative and a historical moment captured in images that are luminous images in the truest sense of the term: for they are illuminating, putting reality in the light." ROBERT MENASSE

"What touched me is the fact that a tiny community manages not to pit its own problems against those of others." JAKOB BROSSMANN