Purple Sea
Directors: Amel Alzakout, Khaled Adbulwahed
67 mins | Germany, 2020
Online from November 26th to December 2nd, 2020.
Original Arabic with English subtitles
Online film talk with Amel Alzakout and Khaled Adbulwahed on 28.11.2020 at 15:00 on the festival website and on the RIDM Facebook page
A blouse with a print of butterflies frolicking in water. Sneakers, jeans, a belt from a coat. So many familiar details to cling to in the chaos: in the middle of the Mediterranean, among a group of migrants. They fled war and are now trying to survive after capsizing. We spot them, like fragments scattered on the deep blue sea, some wearing bright orange life jackets. When the camera plunges, muffling their cries, the Syrian woman who captured the images becomes the narrator. She talks to the person she was trying to reach, to the world, to all of us. She gives a voice and identity to people who all too often become statistics, their voices drowned in the waves. A chilling but essential film. (Apolline Caron-Ottavi)
Meeting the many challenges of 2020, the RIDM has designed its sections as explorations of issues and responses to current realities.
This film is part of the section
SURVIVING VIOLENCE: 12 activist films that testify powerfully to some of today’s most distressing violence: exploitation of Indigenous peoples, the tragedies faced by migrants, countries at war, state repression and violence against women.
About the festival
The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) is one of North America’s leading documentary film festivals. Each year, the RIDM presents more than 150 Canadian and international documentaries. Its industry event, Forum RIDM, is Quebec’s only documentary forum.
This year, the festival’s program will be available online everywhere in Quebec via enligne.ridm.ca. Check out their complete program here: https://ridm.ca/en/festival/programming
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